LotH drafts

Nonstarter

For Driscoll, the singularity is where noone can predict what happens after intelligent machines, but it might be avoided if all people are constantly having informed expectations. There may be a lot of people who are nontechnical. The people who have social control several times a day ascribe to some common basis. It may be an historical text, or a leader that demands adherents utter their loyalty, observance of a reserved place, or recital of the oath. To those doing the design, it may seem like an oppressive use of the machines.
Trying to trace the posthumans is not a simple task. Driscoll had had the vision of the SEER from outside of the spacetime domain which had ways to instrument the universe for significant information. That required the possibility of acting at any of several levels including the physical and digital. The subjects are capable of quick advancements which may seem too fast for institutional organization to cope with, and therefore are either undefined by, or contradicted by, the rules. The controls may therefore always be activated at full strength. This may attempt to cut off growth as well as unforeseen dynamics. If environmental disaster had been an issue due to nonadaptive counterbalance, then this was off the scale. It may have been possible for regulation to know what was best on average, but it is hard pressed to do this in particular. Acceptable losses may quickly be exceeded. It is hard for experts to see all of the scenarios if they are hedged against the downsides. From SEER's viewpoint, there was no system to go bust. Supervisors were in a backward-looking race against the species sprinters. There might be a perception of a sensory boom if they were ever in proximity of eachother, but the fast movers had their own concerns and could not spare attention for the still previous type of posthuman. If a solution could be provided the relatively handicapped, it might be a snapshot of what the frontrunners did so far if others should choose to follow. It would seem that SEER was faced with the choice of either measuring position or momentum, unless multiple measurements could somehow be taken simultaneously and correlated. The trick would be to avoid the instinctual impulse on the part of the crowded field to eliminate those ahead if they ever felt overly excited and interpreted the cause as a threat, or similarly for what the analog of emotion had become. If a, possibly infinite, series of big losses might happen very quickly without remedy, then each locus in the genealogy might declare itself the status quo. This may be like mismatched impedances in signal connections which leads to noise. SEER has to decode all of this to know where everything is in the map or where the likely hotspots may be in order to place the tracers. This does not seem insoluble as long as the members are not changing the physics in the interim.

Continued draft 2, draft 3

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