Bureaucracy begins where information leaves the mind
Bureaucracy is a fascinating overlap between information science and psychology.
It is about the persistently stored facts, which different parties agree on. It’s 1s and 0s combined with law, the objective combined with the subjective. It forms shared reality.
I would love to found a new branch of science, based on a new dogma: “Bureaucracy begins where information leaves the mind”, based on the definition of “information” according to Shannon.
This is an axiom which might make the version of AGI to be build here become a system that isn’t even based on LLMs, neural networks on any other stuff that’s typically AI. Instead, the system’s primary focus is on plannability and predictability of actions, meaning that it would be stream-based, with a simple catalogue of functions which cover every aspect of bureaucracy and data processing imaginable.
General Intelligence is not artificial. It is our intelligence. It is our shared knowledge, but not Wikipedia-like, but instead a generalization of Wikipedia, i.e. all methods and procedures.
It’s just all our intelligences combined, in a coherent software system, which eventually becomes so generalized that it can express endless complexity, while maintaining full data autonomy.
It means keeping languages alive actively by making an effort to support every language on the planet, even the ones that are only spoken through voice-only interfaces.
Civilization consists of a set of rules, nothing else.
Theoretically, if we would all be perfect, no written rules would be needed. We would live in unity, in harmony with nature, of course also sometimes fighting a little with sticks, but in general all one big happy family of humans.
But unfortunately there were people who used books as symbols for the holders of truth. The belief became widespread that religious and spiritual texts that are written down deserve more attention than those that are transferred from human to human only through verbal storytelling.
If you wanna learn more, here I describe the AGI we’re building.
Oh yeah, and on the product side, here is a very rough draft for the system I have in mind. Of course the entire design would be fully customizable.
