The Kabbalahistic Origins of the Search for AGI, and it’s relation to Sheol.
By: Jordan Service
Tags: AGI, Christianity, Apologetics, Artificial Intelligence, Kabbalah

A conceptual and theoretical apology for the morality of a hell marker.

Combinatorics is essential to Kabbalah and also AGI. One of the fun things about the advent of AGI, and VR is being to actually access the functions of divine beings — the creation of environments and the entities that populate those environments. While what is possible once we unlock these functions is very fun to consider, it is also worth attempting to empathize with past societies and how they dealt with views of — for lack of a better term:

Sinners.

“Sin,” has long been thought of as coming from an archery term, which means “to miss the mark.” This is an extremely relevant term when you are thinking in terms of neural network and AI design. The exact corollary, is to have a target based learning set, and a creative system that attempts to recreate the target. In this case a “sinner” is merely an iteration of a function that failed to evolve in a direction that increased “fitness” and was evolutionary less weighted to the goal set.

In this case, “sinners” are gradient descent dissidents that go in the opposite direction of the training set and are discarded.

“Sinners go to Sheol”

To take the analogy one step further is to imagine a scenario of infinite or practically infinite computing power. (Side note — Symbolic expansion on how this is feasible)

In this scenario the notion of having files, parts, and systems that are discarded out side of the system — is actually wasteful, because you must then re-index past misses into the system only to re-discard them. Given a scenario of infinite compute, you should actually mark misses and store valid, non-valid entities, in order to track similarities of non-validity. At the same time, having a large store of organized known and named, types of invalid entities, is itself as a meta practice extremely valuable as a source of valid invalids.

For example, the notion of Sheol, where the notion of Hell comes from. Is a physical place where they would burn trash. Hence the imagery of burning in Sheol is a miss transliteration of early writers which did not understand that Sheol was a physical space outside of Jerusalem used to burn trash.

However — given infinite compute (Side note definition of IC as opposed to Singularity) A marker that is basically saying: “this data bit is garbage” would be appropriate, and should go to the garbage dump. Ie. “Sheol,” means “the place where invalids are not discarded.”

The Moral and Digital Apology of Sheol

Considering the above conclusions, the notion of being discarded and not deleted, then serves to justify the notion of “hell” not of a place of torture. Where beings are getting their kicks off of torturing lesser beings.

But of divine foresight of allowing even the invalid an existence on their own terms, and furthers to justify the notion of the the discarded place (Sheol), not as a place of torture, but of a place of torment. Where the entities are actually experiencing their own natures.

Free will allows the existence of evolution on our own terms, allows us to chose our own image and forsake the goal, and allows us to continue to self define in the wrong direction forever. A more damned scenario, I cannot personally imagine.

I will chose my targets from with in the “Tao,” the Goal Set pattern, or “the way.”

At the same, adopting the stance of allowing for a discarded index — is good principals for AI and evolved systems design.