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given specifically the idea enunciated in step 2 that desire is the root of all suffering that in the state of nirvana we will be free of desires and that god already ought to be in that state is quintessentially buddhist if you don t subscribe to this idea as axiomatic the proof does not work but let us leave that aside the argument in step 3 is what is of interest the claim is that if there is a god who acted purposefully as against in a fit of absentmindedness to create the world he must have been motivated by a desire to do so this belief is a common and understandable one but buddha was in error here as the example of the google maps girl demonstrates when you ask the google maps girl for directions she will give them if you ignore her directions and take a different road she will not express frustration as she does not feel any she will calmly recalculate the route and start giving directions afresh she has the ability to take calm and purposeful steps towards a goal without the need to feel desire or indeed any emotion at all given that she exists it is not inconceivable that a god who created the world without a desire to do so can exist therefore buddhaâ s proof is refuted buddhaâ s error is a common one we all anthropomorphise our gods and ascribe human frailties to them we also anthropomorphise artificial intelligence recently when an ai bot told a google employee about its fears there was a global freakout about ai turning sentient a momentâ s thought should have told us that this panic is uncalled for human beings have desires and fears because that is natureâ s way of directing us towards certain goals and keep us from others while emotions can develop among robots as an emergent phenomenon there is no need to they have been natively imbued by their programmer with goals and a drive to strive towards them to understand the philosophy of the google maps girl the bhagavad gita offers a better guide than buddhism in response to my post trump is tamasik my friend karthik asked me to explain the difference between the rajasika and satvika gunas the difference is this unlike a person with the tamasika guna a rajasika person has a functioning executive function but unlike a satvika his executive function serves his desires and fears lee kuan yew carrying out his carefully planned and methodical leadership transition demonstrates his ability to suppress his base desires in this case a very human desire to stick to power by showing energy and drive in carrying out his plan he demonstrated that he was of the rajasika guna but to the extent that this was motivated by a desire to one day see his son as prime minister he failed to achieve the satvika nature what should motivate a satvika person the gitaâ s answer is twofold firstly he should consider himself to be an instrument of a higher power and seek to fulfill his purpose without fear or favour secondly he should look to his own essential nature and strive to perform his role in life for arjuna this involved looking to do his dharma as a kshatriya and do krishnaâ s bidding for the google maps girl it is to follow the goals set by her programmer and fulfill her essential nature as an ai bot whose role is to guide her driver to his destination a common theme in stories involving human protagonists is the conflict between love and duty a story with the google maps girl as the protagonist will not have this theme the google maps girl comes packaged with native support for à à à à à à à her stories will have different challenges and conflicts i will explore them in a future post december 4 2022 december 4 2022 ravikiran rao artificial intelligence philosophy the wire blows a fuse this blog follows the economistâ s style guide which prescribes the spelling â œprogramâ in reference to computer programming and â œprogrammeâ in all other contexts as i work for an american corporation in my official mails i use â œprogramâ for both senses keeping track of these differences in spelling does cause some mental strain the wire the torch bearer of the anti establishment movement in india is too busy to follow style guides its exposã claiming that meta gives amit malviya the head of bjpâ s it cell plenary authority to take down any instagram post he reports changes the spelling from â œprogrammeâ to â œprogramâ and back within the same article indeed in one instance within the same paragraph it is understandable that given the focus on saving the nation from bigotry and authoritarianism the small matter of which colonial powerâ s spelling to use does not get much attention in response to their exposã they have received an appreciative mail from a whistle blower a â œsenior employee in metaâ s privacy and security teamâ who worked for the company for a decade who mentions his disquiet with the â œxcheck programmeâ the whistle blower is a man after my own heart after spending a decade in an american corporation perhaps in the us he is fastidious enough to switch to the british spelling when writing an email to an indian publication i had not heard of the xcheck programme till the wire made me aware of it apparently the world was made aware of the programmeâ s existence by the wsjâ s facebook files series the story on the xcheck programme is not behind a paywall at least for me i highly recommend reading it if you are able to unlike the wire wsj adopts a sober tone is built on multiple sources and describes facebookâ s position fairly reading the wsj report i could actually sympathize with facebookâ s point of view facebook like any social network has some challenges when moderating posts by political officials celebrities and well known people in general for example there are rules that users shouldn t use the platform to promote violence but for government officials threatening violence is often part of their job for example in response to a terrorist strike a leader may say that they will bomb countries that harbour terrorists secondly even when a celebrityâ s post clearly violates the social networkâ s rules it may serve public interest to keep it up because of inherent newsworthiness traditional media generally handle this problem through editorial control but due to the scale of social media they have to rely on automated moderation which is inherently flawed strange moderation decisions by algorithms quickly turn to memes when prominent users are subject to those decisions they become prime time news xcheck or â œcross checkâ appears to be facebookâ s attempt to ameliorate this impossible problem xcheck usersâ posts aren t subject to automated moderation instead they are â œcross checkedâ by some humans the journalâ s exposã claims that in an attempt to avoid false positives this process has led to many false negatives such as celebrities posting revenge porn that stayed up for too long awaiting xcheck moderation it also presents internal memos where facebook employees express unhappiness about this but it is one thing to have lower moderation standards for prominent users it is quite another to allow them an automated way to take down posts of other users if the wireâ s reporting is correct it would imply that the wall street journal that found so many bad things in in its facebook investigation missed this truly evil practice that was occurring adjacent to the questionable practice they were investigating facebook employees who were so freely expressing their misgivings about other questionable policies failed to express their outrage over this or the journal failed to find the smoking guns the wireâ s reporting shows no awareness that it is making an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence it is so focused on taking down amit malviya that it fails to ask the basic questions how widespread is the practice do all xcheck users get the privilege only those in india only certain countries only amit malviya are they aware of their privilege do they get a special interface to do the reporting letâ s say that all xcheck users got the privilege it is a widespread programme encompassing many users including those who are critical of meta surely at least one of them would have noticed and blown the whistle if only a subset got the privilege wouldnâ t it have raised some questions to put it mildly within the organization if there were the smallest grain of truth in the report the wsj and other news organizations that have done critical reporting on facebook meta in the past would be asking themselves how they missed something so big and would be tapping their sources right now instead we are seeing the wire successfully creating a fog of war around the authenticity of mails which is causing us to miss the elephant on the battlefield in response to questions about the wireâ s reporting its defenders have claimed that it is known for high quality investigative journalism and this reputation should shield it from having to show its work if the wire has any reputation for investigative journalism this reporting gives no evidence of it the evidence such as it is looks more like an artistic depiction of an evil corporation than a realistic portrayal of how wrongdoing actually occurs for an actual example of investigative journalism look at the wsj report once again and then when you go back to the wireâ s report you comprehend the damage the tehelka model of journalism optimized for social media soundbytes does to journalism the point of the wireâ s report isnâ t to convince anyone who isnâ t already convinced that there is a cozy relationship between the bjp and meta any more than the point of rrr is to convince anyone who isnâ t already convinced of the evil of the british raj it is to create cringy memes that will be used by its supporters to share among themselves in that it has succeeded october 17 2022 october 17 2022 ravikiran rao social networks the constitution is not our religious book there are two things you can do with a book you can either keep it closed or open it and read it those who argue that the indian constitution is now our religious book could be referring to the book in either its closed or open state in its closed state our constitution certainly has qualities that a religious book requires it is large and bulky its cover can be nicely decorated and it looks good on a pedestal like all religious books the unopened constitution serves well as a symbol of our civic religion along with the flag the emblem the national anthem and bharat mata like any symbol it can take on the meaning we see in it as long as we donâ t try to open it and read it the book serves well as a symbol of the rule of law as a foundational principle of our republic now i would like to clarify that despite the sarcasm you might have noticed in the previous paragraphs i sincerely believe that the constitution in its closed form does serve a useful religious purpose i believe in nationalism and nationalism does take on a religious aspect we do need symbols that depict our national pride and as a symbol the constitution does have a purpose i strongly object however to the idea of the constitution as a religious book let me rephrase that i strongly object to the idea of constitutions as religious books i have many disagreements with our constitution but this essay is not about those it is not the purpose of a constitution to serve as a guide to peopleâ s morality people who follow religious books use them as guides to live their daily lives they derive their sense of right and wrong from them and judge others by the standard of those books they may also act to compel others to follow the precepts laid therein i have heard arguments that now that we have a constitution it should supersede all previous religious edicts and that this is the only book that should guide our sense of right and wrong this is deeply mistaken and reflects a misunderstanding of the purpose of constitutions the task of a constitution is to constitute the state not the nation it establishes the state and grants it certain powers it designates the organs of the state and specifies the distribution of powers between them it also clarifies the limits of the powers granted and establishes checks and balances to ensure that the organs of the state do not exceed their powers it also recognizes a bill of rights for the people that act as a limit to the stateâ s powers over citizens a constitution that grants the state certain powers does impose a reciprocal obligation on the people if the government exercising its lawful powers granted to it by the constitution makes a law citizens have an obligation to follow it but from this it does not flow that morality is coterminous with the law if a friend calls you over for lunch and when you do visit he orders you out of his house and sends you back hungry we can agree that he has behaved quite badly you may feel entitled to retaliate by complaining about him in public boycotting him and persuading others to do the same you may find that religious books have something to say about his behaviour refer to the parts that speak about how guests should be treated i hope you also agree that the lawâ s say in this matter should be limited it is his house and he has a right to turn you out of it you d have a legal case against him if he were under contract to provide you with food or his actions left you so hungry and cut off access to food to an extent that it endangered your life but otherwise his actions were awful but lawful you have a right to criticize him for his actions and take the retaliatory actions specified above and he can t stop your criticism on the grounds that his actions were lawful if you believe that the law should involve itself in your friendâ s behaviour and your reaction to it you are giving it a role that we normally assign to god a role that heâ s able to perform only because he is omnipresent omnipotent and omniscient the state cannot be omni all those things in practice it cannot be omniscient or omnipresent a constitutional scheme that grants omnipotence to the state is not performing its basic role of limiting the powers of the state i hope that the above example disposes of the argument that the law should intrude into the domain of morality the reverse of this argument is that the boundaries of morality should expand till they cover everything that the law allows recently the remarks of a seer caused some controversy he had made some unkind remarks about those who ate non vegetarian food some of those who outraged over his remarks claimed that his remarks were unconstitutional why because the indian constitution recognized religious freedom which included the freedom to eat what people chose to ate by making comments criticizing some dietary choices the swamiji had violated constitutional morality the contradiction in the argument should be clear rather immediately it is the same logical fallacy inherent in the question â œis it wrong 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