Basic Assumptions

October 01 2020

I claim here that the goal for humanity should be to build generalizable prediction systems (Predictive Computing) which can forecast the future state of any measurable phenomena

This is rooted in a few assumptions:

Humans can predict the state of the universe further into the future and more granularly than any other system - interestingly the ability to change the universe is related to predicting it
The Human system is uniquely structured to do this (relatively) long term, (relatively) high granularity prediction
Empirical sense experience is required to accurately make predictions
Humans do not have the biological sensory capabilities to accurately sense the material universe outside of humans sense experience
Humans can only sense some tiny fraction of the information universe as the amount of information humans can experience and make predictions on is too small
Humans do not have the memory or representational capabilities to accurately model the material universe
Humans augment their lack of inherent biological predictive capabilities with non-biological creation (engineering)
There is no undesputed goal vector for human action
Observations of human action indicate a few consistently held goal vectors:
- Maximizing Reproduction
- Desire for Intoxication
- Maximizing Predictability
- Unstructured Exploration
Of these observed general action vectors, maximizing predicability is the only one that can amplify the others