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I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

E-Link v. #ScheduleA - In a patent case (what kind of patent case? we can't tell because of all the sealing), Judge Cummings denies permissive joinder. Then, when the case is dumped on a new judge, that new judge (Harjani) adopts the Judge Hunt "Ali Baba" rule (40 is okay, for some reason). Neither judge mentions 35 U.S.C. § 299.

Studying LLM Performance on Closed- and Open-source Data
Toufique Ahmed, Christian Bird, Premkumar Devanbu, Saikat Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15100

Studying LLM Performance on Closed- and Open-source Data
Large Language models (LLMs) are finding wide use in software engineering practice. These models are extremely data-hungry, and are largely trained on open-source (OSS) code distributed with permissive licenses. In terms of actual use however, a great deal of software development still occurs in the for-profit/proprietary sphere, where the code under development is not, and never has been, in the public domain; thus, many developers, do their work, and use LLMs, in settings where the models may…

“We also asked the open source community if it feels an obligation to alter its practices to align them with international sanctions – they're not keen.”
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/24/us_commerce_china_risc_v_investigation/

US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army marked thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties,
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

Correlation Clustering with Vertex Splitting
Matthias Bentert, Alex Crane, P{\aa}l Gr{\o}n{\aa}s Drange, Felix Reidl, Blair D. Sullivan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10335

Correlation Clustering with Vertex Splitting
We explore Cluster Editing and its generalization Correlation Clustering with a new operation called permissive vertex splitting which addresses finding overlapping clusters in the face of uncertain information. We determine that both problems are NP-hard, yet they exhibit significant differences in parameterized complexity and approximability. For Cluster Editing with Permissive Vertex Splitting, we show a polynomial kernel when parameterized by the solution size and develop a polynomial-time …

„According to six Israeli intelligence officers, who have all served in the army during the current war on the Gaza Strip and had first-hand involvement with the use of AI to generate targets for assassination, #Lavender has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early stages of the war.”
„..devote only about “20 seconds” to each target b…

I realized I had not posted this here.
Short version, "AI for Genocide" article:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Further reporting:

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

In depth article about the use of AI-based systems for target selection in #Gaza. Utterly despicable and inhumane practices.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/…

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

I realized I had not posted this here.
Short version, "AI for Genocide" article:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Further reporting:

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.