Connectionist Panarchism, Part I
Channel: Khayah Brookes
Date: 13/11/2022

A healthy system is one that sustains joy.

A quantified model of attachment theory and object relations can serve as a generic and rigorous framework for ethics for people × machines.


 I think I'll make things outlining (1) object relations theory, (2) attachment theory, (3) the mathematical basis for our empirical observations of attachment-style emergence, (4) the relationship between relational health and the prosperity of social systems, (5) the ethical implications and epistemic requirements of objective-function oriented health & happiness efforts, (6) the relationship between the preceding and an organizational praxis orientation that's congruent with prosocial outcomes and functionality -- with immediate applications for harm mitigation and universal liberation -- and (7) the implications of the preceding for AGI.


Here's a literature review for my work so far:
https://docs.zohopublic.com/file/ktgtae39e04f2fe014262ad83cfa0b8235f6f

Here's that most-generic systems-oriented paper on attachment as a tunable optimization of interactions between network elements: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1839059/

This page belongs to my friend Xida Ren, a hardware security and AI ethics researcher. I probably mischaracterized his work, in the video. If so, please tell me what I got wrong, preferably in the form of a battle rap -- if you have time.
https://renxida.github.io

And I'll leave you with a quote from my friend Vanessa Molano, an accountant, praxis-oriented moral philosopher, and occasional rap artist under the name of Feedback Lupe. You can find her at https://www.empathematics.com/:
"I don't want enough that I'm taking anything. I just want enough to sustain my contribution."