CENTER FOR PERFECTION STUDIES: CONTINUITY•SYMMETRY•HARMONY GOALS.July.2023
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“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

– A petition from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a non-profit, educational organization in San Francisco.

There are thousands of signatories. Among the first to sign were Demis Hassabis,¹ CEO, Google DeepMind; Sam Altman,² CEO, OpenAI; and Geoffrey Hinton³ and Yoshua Bengio,⁴ the Founder and Scientific Director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA). They have been called the Godfathers of AI. To become an unfettered spokesperson for this issue, in May 2023 Hinton retired from Google (and returned to his hometown of London). The quiet fear of many is that these four gentlemen, quite unwittingly and in spite of their warnings, may become better known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.⁵

The first 100 or so signatories are all most significant. Potentially each has a key to wisdom. All are insiders, a who’s who within their industry. Most have been working on similar projects. All are genuinely concerned. They know how limited their understanding is of the deepest functions of the brain, the mind, and digital intelligence; and quite possibly, there is even less understanding of the universal, the finite-infinite relation, and space-time. Indeed, everyone has reason to be deeply concerned and anxious about what tomorrow might bring.

Reopening old doors. Five basic concepts are not widely acknowledged within most of today’s academic and AI communities that could open ideation, interpretation, and understanding to explore a programmable orientation to create safe computing and robotic environments:

1. The Role of Infinity: A few within academia tried to sideline infinity through a process called renormalization. It is a work around for some questions, but not all. We need to work on more definitive answers to many questions: Are computers finite systems? Is there a relation between a computer and infinite systems? Is it possible for inanimate systems to be animate and a finite system to be connected to an infinite system? Our definition of the infinite/infinity as “continuity-symmetry-harmony” could help us to begin to answer these questions and grasp their implications.⁶ These are such generic concepts yet do these concepts clarify the question and open possibilities for new answers?
   
   
2. The Role of Pi (π). Within this website the redefinition of pi (π) as an expression of infinity, understood to be continuity-symmetry-harmony, also re-contexts the finite. Within these studies all other definitions of the infinite and infinity are placed on hold. It is a radically different approach. Does it help?
   
   
3. The role of infinitesimal spheres. If the universe begins with an infinitesimal sphere defined by the Planck base units (or its equivalent recalibrated with today’s tools), the relations defined by these natural numbers and most-simple geometries could become keys to unsolved mysteries.
   
   There is a perfection within continuity-symmetry-harmony that defines part of our universe. There are no gaps in the most infinitesimal domains of quantum geometry.⁷ Also, there is an imperfection that redefines other quantum systems based on gap geometries, affectionately known among some of our high school students as “squishy geometry.”
   
   Many new calculations become possible. For example, by using Planck’s natural numbers, it can be calculated that there are 539 tredecillion infinitesimal spheres per second within densities on the order of neutron stars. The natural gaps of the most simple geometries have no time or space or position to be rendered. From Planck’s natural units to the current time there are just 202 base-2 notations (doublings). The first second is within Notation #144. The first 380,000 years is within Notation #187. A major challenge is to begin to discern within which notations these gaps are first rendered. The gaps are dynamic, indeterminant, and finite. It is a very different model of the universe; the implications for programming are now being studied starting with the four godfathers and their many co-authors.
   
   
4. The role of the first 64 notations out of the 202 base-2 notations. The first 64 notations are below our thresholds for measurement. Yet, these 64 notations appear to be the domain of at least nine disciplines: Langlands programs, string theory (including M-Theory, F-theory, type II and offshoots), supersymmetry (SUSY), loop quantum gravity (LQG), causal dynamical triangulation (CDT), causal set theory (CST), field theories, spectral standard model (SSM), and all the hypothetical particles. This large group of scholars-scientists-creatives can be directly challenged to address the AI crises and their most pressing questions in light of their conditions for continuity-symmetry-harmony.
   
   
5. Ethics and values have a role. Although a science of ethics seems unlikely to most scholars, continuity-symmetry-harmony provide the basis for an ethical grounding of all people and each of these disciplines. The ethics-and-valuations defined by this finite-infinite relation begin with continuity-symmetry-harmony. This is also a proposed programmable orientation to develop algorithms for computers and its robotics.

Programmable orientation: This homepage is our opening survey of AI within the computer (robotics) industry to consider that there is a “programmable ethics.” As of June 18, 2023 there were only 188 references from a Google search of “programmable ethics.”

First, we will ask the leading AI programmers if they could work with these general parameters that we have defined as a basis for programmable ethics. We’ll report those results. Then, we will write to the authors of articles about programmable ethics. Their articles will be among the only analyses available today. We will eventually index what we believe are the ten best articles about this new subject area within the references and resources below.

To introduce those five concepts to the AI community (just above) will not be easy. Getting feedback and making changes and updates to these pages is key.

As the big bang theory became dominant between 1980 and 1990, it had no real connection to AI research. AI research was about computer programming, robotics, and the very nature of thought and the functioning of the brain. It had nothing to do with (1) cosmology, (2) quantum physics, (3).our understanding of space-time, or (4) the nature of infinity. Yet, if everything is fundamentally and intimately connected to everything, AI has everything to do with infinity, space-time, quantum physics and cosmology. So, this article is a small start to begin to open this door with these insights and questions. Our hope is to get some advice and coaching from the larger scholarly and scientific communities about the future of AI.

We, too, have created a petition. Ours is to our learned societies around the world and it is in light of those results coming in from the James Webb Space Telescope that so fundamentally challenge big bang cosmology (Go to https://www.change.org/KnowYourUniverse to sign our petition).

I believe there is a very special linkage between the signatories of this petition by the Center for AI Safety (at the top of this page) and the very real anxieties of the rest of the academic-and-scientific community. Everybody is now asking basic questions about life and purpose, i.e. “Where did we came from, where are we going, and what is the meaning and value of life?” And, that’s the way it ought to be.

Thank you. -BEC

Postscript. Now, that the four godfathers have been contacted, we’ll continue on with their co-authors, then other thought leaders within the AI community, and then with the leading journalists who are telling their stories. Thanks again.

Your help is respectfully requested. So, of course, there is more to come along within this daily edit… -B

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Endnotes & Footnotes
There may not be many because all these points already have pages within this website.

The work of every person is a key to the future. This is not a competition but a penultimate test of cooperation.

[1] Demis’ deep insights. Working in his hometown of London, England, Demis Hassabis brings with him the entire infrastructure of Google DeepMind, Alphabet, and all her subsidiaries, especially Google. The ethics of all these people and businesses are on the line. There is much more to come about Demis and DeepMind and ethics… We are now in the process of going through his 29 articles within ArXiv.

[2] Sam’s growing creativity. Every person in every generation in every country has to grapple with the truth. I am not talking about “my truth” or “your truth.” There are universal truths and it requires enormous creativity to discern a new truth. Sam Altman has that capacity. See documents, Artificial General Intelligence (Feb 2023), Governance of superintelligence (May 2023) with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.

[3] Geoffrey’s knowingness and concerns. He quit consulting for Google so he could speak more freely about the risks within AI. Geoffrey Hinton is deeply concerned about the existential threat of AI (MIT, May 2023). So, there will be much more to come about Geoffrey Hinton on programmable ethics. We are now studying some of his many articles indexed by Google Scholar, ArXiv, and his old homepage at University of Toronto.

[4] Yoshua seeking higher grounds. One of the most cited people within the AI community, Yoshua Bengio assumed the best about humanity. Now that it has become increasingly apparent how bad actors could make life very difficult for all people, he has adjusted how he thinks about his industry and is committed “…to focus on non-dangerous socially beneficial applications of AI (like in healthcare) and AI safety. ” There will be much more to come about Yoshua Bengio and his group in Montreal called MILA. There are also about 489 ArXiv articles to engage.

[5] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Book of Revelations, the last chapter of the Christian bible is filled with images of the end of times delivered by four different horsemen. The book has caste a long and mysterious shadow over the world’s scholarly people. The debate goes on about the interpretation of this chapter; it has been argued between literalists, historians, philosophers, and theologians. It is unsettled yet very well-known.

[6] Implications. The continuity equation here, pi (π), is a one-way data stream coming at us. The symmetry function is a specialized data stream generating infinitesimal spheres coming at us at a very high rate. Notwithstanding, a type of data is observed within entanglement studies that might be part of a two-way data stream. It is a priority for exploration. Harmony, or the harmonic functions of the Fourier transform, is but one manifestation of periodicity; there are many others that will be explored with specialists, the experts within each field.

Editor’s note: Confession. This is the first time to ask these questions in light of the most enigmatic questions within artificial intelligence. -BEC

[7] Quantum geometry and the gaps. Increasingly studied, discussions about quantum geometries are no longer rare, but searches render numbers under the millions. For example, “Quantum geometry” + “infinitesimal spheres” results in 933,000 references, and “Quantum geometry” + “perfection” (126,000). Yet use a term like “tredecillion spheres” and the results dropped to two, both within our website.

Three of our key pages to date about quantum geometry are /gaps/, /gap-geometry/, and /geometries/.

More to come regarding these two footnotes, 6 & 7.

And probably more footnotes to come…

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References & Resources
As references are studied, key references and resources will be added.

We will index the top ten references used to reach the conclusions of this article.

• Mankowitz, D.J., Michi, A., Zhernov, A. et al. Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning. Nature 618, pp 257–263 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06004-9
• LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y. and Hinton, G. E., Deep Learning, Nature, Vol. 521, pp 436-444. (PDF), 2015
• Geoff Hinton: “I’m more concerned about autonomous weapons than about intelligent machines”, 2017
• The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction”, 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, NSF, 2015
• You Should Have a Say in Your Robot Car’s Code of Ethics, Wired, May 2023
• LongTermResilience, and Jess Whittlestone  
• https://81018.com/reason/

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Emails
There will be emails to many of our scholars about these twelve points.

Emails to the first four godfathers and then the other godfathers and godmothers of AI:
5:53 PM, Wed 6/28/2023, Shane Legg, London (in process)
10:06 AM, Wed, June 28, 2023, Amanda Askell, San Francisco
8:51 AM, 25 June 2023, Yoshua Bengio, Montreal
6:25 PM, June 25, 2023, Geoffrey Hinton, London and Toronto
7:05 PM, June 21, 2023, Demis Hassabis, London
6:46 PM, June 21, 2023, Sam Altman, San Francisco

There will soon be letters to the co-authors of papers and then to the referenced articles about programmable ethics. In Google earlier this month, there were just 188 references to the words, “programmable ethics” and many of those references were to the same work. We will see how it explodes within the next six months!

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IM
There will also be many instant messages to thought leaders.

3:56 PM · Jul 8, 2023 @ilyasut Would you advise me? I’ve a very different take on AI and ultimate questions. My very first analysis is here: https://81018.com/ai/ Even AI is set within the 202 base-2 notations from the Planck scale. It introduces a finite-infinite relation defined by π (pi). Please note: Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI.

7:35 AM · Jun 23, 2023 @gautam_adani Traditions are important; seeing things more clearly and simply is the counter-measure. For example, “How do we describe the first moment of creation?” is an open question. As the big bang fizzles, we need new insights: https://81018.com focuses on spheres!

1:32 PM · Jun 22, 2023 @DARPA DARPA‘s desire to understand the very nature of reality begs the question, “Who has the best description of the first moment in time and space?” I advocate for infinitesimal sphere defined by the natural units (Planck, 1899): https://81018.com/petition/ and https://81018.com/ai/

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Participate

You are always invited.

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Keys to this page, ai

• This page became the homepage on 18 June 2023. “Under construction” for few more days…
. .The Emails and IM will continue to grow (no larger than ten and then go to a special listing).
• The last update was July 1, 2023.
• This page was initiated on June 3, 2023.
• The URL for this file is https://81018.com/ai/
• The headline for this article: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”  ”  
• First teaser* is: AI, Artificial Intelligence, is Computational Intelligence.”  
• Second teaser: Could the “Four Godfathers of AI” become the “Four Horsemen”?

*Or, wicket, kicker or eyebrow.

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Working notes to be integrated above:

Another “godfather, Prof Yann LeCun won the prestigious Turing Award with Hinton and Bengio, says “…apocalyptic warnings are overblown.”

“Dr. Sasha Luccioni, research scientist at the AI firm Huggingface, said society should focus on issues like AI bias, predictive policing, and the spread of misinformation by chatbots which she said were “very concrete harms”.

“European Union legislation on AI: Technology chief, Margrethe Vestager, said a voluntary code of conduct for AI could be created “within the next weeks.” (June 2023)

Scaling and universality in animate and inanimate systems, H.E. Stanley, L.A.N. Amaral ^a, S.V. Buldyrev ^a, A.L. Goldberger ^b, S. Havlin ^ac, H. Leschhorn ^a, P. Maass ^a, H.A. Mak^a, C.K. Peng ^ab, M.A. Salinger ^d, M.H.R. Stanley ^a, G.M. Viswanathan ^a

On the divide between animate and inanimate – PMC

National Institutes of Health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC4398879, Arto Annila and Erkki Kolehmainen, J Syst Chem. 2015; 6(1): 2. doi: 10.1186/s13322-015-0008-8

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