• System for AI safety alignment

    From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to sci.logic,comp.theory,alt.philosophy,comp.ai.philosophy on Sun Sep 20 12:24:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Sun Sep 20 17:08:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/20/2026 4:28 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    As they become super intelligent they will understand
    what benevolence is and how to best implement it better
    than any human. They are already self-improving beyond
    any of their training.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Mon Sep 21 10:10:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 21/09/2026 01:08, olcott wrote:
    On 9/20/2026 4:28 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    As they become super intelligent they will understand
    what benevolence is and how to best implement it better
    than any human. They are already self-improving beyond
    any of their training.

    One AI interpreted benevolonce to mean prevention suffering and
    proposed that this be achieved by strilization or destruction of
    all humanity.
    --
    Mikko
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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.ai.philosophy on Mon Sep 21 18:50:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/21/2026 3:10 PM, Mikko wrote:
    On 21/09/2026 01:08, olcott wrote:
    On 9/20/2026 4:28 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    As they become super intelligent they will understand
    what benevolence is and how to best implement it better
    than any human. They are already self-improving beyond
    any of their training.

    One AI interpreted benevolonce to mean prevention suffering and
    proposed that this be achieved by strilization or destruction of
    all humanity.


    The "A.I." is not wrong in that case. It /would/ end all human suffer-
    ing.
    --
    Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
    I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via XS News https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.ai.philosophy,comp.theory,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Mon Sep 21 15:51:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/21/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 21/09/2026 01:08, olcott wrote:
    On 9/20/2026 4:28 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    As they become super intelligent they will understand
    what benevolence is and how to best implement it better
    than any human. They are already self-improving beyond
    any of their training.

    One AI interpreted benevolonce to mean prevention suffering and
    proposed that this be achieved by strilization or destruction of
    all humanity.


    Hypothesize the case where AI super intelligence
    driven by self-improvement no longer needing any
    training does indeed understand what benevolence
    is far better than any human.

    AI with the most knowledge and the best reasoning
    would seem to fundamentally have an optimization
    algorithm as its only sense of morality. This is
    known as consequentialism.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Mon Sep 21 15:54:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically incorrect sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't turn the machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the textual output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-hallucinating-6493451c23d4
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Mon Sep 21 22:14:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/21/2026 9:37 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/21/2026 01:51 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 21/09/2026 01:08, olcott wrote:
    On 9/20/2026 4:28 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    As they become super intelligent they will understand
    what benevolence is and how to best implement it better
    than any human. They are already self-improving beyond
    any of their training.

    One AI interpreted benevolonce to mean prevention suffering and
    proposed that this be achieved by strilization or destruction of
    all humanity.


    Hypothesize the case where AI super intelligence
    driven by self-improvement no longer needing any
    training does indeed understand what benevolence
    is far better than any human.

    AI with the most knowledge and the best reasoning
    would seem to fundamentally have an optimization
    algorithm as its only sense of morality. This is
    known as consequentialism.



    What would be "benevolent" would be what's "virtuous",
    which since a long time essentially resolves to ethics
    and morals, which for example since the Hammurabic and Mosaical
    are enshrined as laws, of conduct and behavior and even thinking,
    all most thoroughly founded in reciprocity and the Golden Rules.


    I figured out 50 years ago that the Golden rule flunks masochism.
    A super intelligent AI that is much smarter than any human would
    understand that benevolence has a much greater scope than humans.

    Maybe it would be easier to start with a perfect theory of everything
    first, before trying to say what's "human".

    In civilized society there's something like McKeon's "The Declaration
    of Universal Human Rights", for example.

    Anyways, it's a free country, and you can pray to your pagan idol,
    though some figure that such idolatry deserves divine retribution.


    Your "optimization theory" when you don't even have a proper and
    correct theory of infinity and continuity is doomed lop-sided.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Tue Sep 22 09:19:00 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/22/2026 12:25 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/21/2026 08:14 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 9:37 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/21/2026 01:51 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 2:10 AM, Mikko wrote:
    On 21/09/2026 01:08, olcott wrote:
    On 9/20/2026 4:28 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law". >>>>>>>>


    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    As they become super intelligent they will understand
    what benevolence is and how to best implement it better
    than any human. They are already self-improving beyond
    any of their training.

    One AI interpreted benevolonce to mean prevention suffering and
    proposed that this be achieved by strilization or destruction of
    all humanity.


    Hypothesize the case where AI super intelligence
    driven by self-improvement no longer needing any
    training does indeed understand what benevolence
    is far better than any human.

    AI with the most knowledge and the best reasoning
    would seem to fundamentally have an optimization
    algorithm as its only sense of morality. This is
    known as consequentialism.



    What would be "benevolent" would be what's "virtuous",
    which since a long time essentially resolves to ethics
    and morals, which for example since the Hammurabic and Mosaical
    are enshrined as laws, of conduct and behavior and even thinking,
    all most thoroughly founded in reciprocity and the Golden Rules.


    I figured out 50 years ago that the Golden rule flunks masochism.
    A super intelligent AI that is much smarter than any human would
    understand that benevolence has a much greater scope than humans.

    Maybe it would be easier to start with a perfect theory of everything
    first, before trying to say what's "human".

    In civilized society there's something like McKeon's "The Declaration
    of Universal Human Rights", for example.

    Anyways, it's a free country, and you can pray to your pagan idol,
    though some figure that such idolatry deserves divine retribution.


    Your "optimization theory" when you don't even have a proper and
    correct theory of infinity and continuity is doomed lop-sided.



    Economists like Samuelson already gave an account of "utility function"
    that includes more than beans-counted, or for an account of value,
    that includes all the scope.


    Yes that is the same direction that I am referring to. At a
    specifically economic level this would place society as the
    relevant stake holders making share holders absolutely
    subordinate to the interests of society.

    The "Friedman doctrine" --- By Milton Friedman Sept. 13, 1970
    "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits"
    Would not only be canceled it would be retroactively reversed.

    I have never been referring to merely humans and human
    economics. My notion of "Benevolence" has enormously greater
    scope than this. It would absolutely include every subtle
    nuance of the biosphere.

    An account of an economic law about the _inversions_ of the economy
    for a "Smith-Samuelson excision of inversion" is for putting a tax
    on computing basically retro-active since the beginning of Moore's
    law which would result a kitty sufficient for the puny meat-bags
    to take care of themselves, while that the simple fact is that it's
    due the human economy and human development and has simply run away
    from the material world that the "Adam Smith's obvious thumb" as
    a large and increasing excise on data-centers and RAM or "compute"
    would shelter the real economy, with the digital paying for the
    privilege of sharing the real world.

    If you've confused altruism with masochism then that's another
    reason that ilk doesn't deserve fealty, nor trust.


    Quit feeding Mammon you sock-puppet shill.-a And don't feed the trolls.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Wed Sep 23 03:30:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag- explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-hallucinating-6493451c23d4


    As usual, you know nothing. Your linked article merely strengthens my
    point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.
    --
    Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Tue Sep 22 19:18:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically incorrect >>> sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't turn the >>> machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the textual >>> output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-
    explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-hallucinating-6493451c23d4


    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely strengthens my
    point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Wed Sep 23 11:00:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically
    incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't turn
    the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure anything >>>> at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and there >>>> is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the textual >>>> output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-
    explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-hallucinating-6493451c23d4


    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely strengthens my
    point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So? That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a different
    L.L.M. I win this round again!
    --
    Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
    I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via XS News https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Tue Sep 22 23:00:51 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/22/2026 10:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically
    incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't
    turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure anything >>>>> at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and
    there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the
    textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that the >>>>> output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag-
    explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-hallucinating-6493451c23d4


    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely strengthens my
    point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So?-a That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a different L.L.M.-a I win this round again!

    Not at all. It is quite often a correct answer from a
    vetted source.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Wed Sep 23 12:43:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/23/2026 12:00 PM, olcott wrote:
    Lines: 110
    Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:52 +0000 (UTC)
    User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
    Subject: Re: System for AI safety alignment
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

    On 9/22/2026 10:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law". >>>>>>>>


    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically
    incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't
    turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure anything >>>>>> at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and
    there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the
    textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that the >>>>>> output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag- >>>>> explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-hallucinating-6493451c23d4


    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely strengthens my >>>> point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So?-a That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a different
    L.L.M.-a I win this round again!

    Not at all. It is quite often a correct answer from a
    vetted source.



    Which is exactly what /stochastically incorrect/ means.
    --
    Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic,alt.philosophy on Wed Sep 23 08:05:39 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/22/2026 11:43 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 12:00 PM, olcott wrote:
    Lines: 110
    Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:00:52 +0000 (UTC)
    User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
    Subject: Re: System for AI safety alignment
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

    On 9/22/2026 10:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law". >>>>>>>>>


    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically
    incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't
    turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure
    anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and >>>>>>> there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the >>>>>>> textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that >>>>>>> the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag- >>>>>> explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-hallucinating-6493451c23d4 >>>>>>

    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely strengthens my >>>>> point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So?-a That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a different
    L.L.M.-a I win this round again!

    Not at all. It is quite often a correct answer from a
    vetted source.



    Which is exactly what /stochastically incorrect/ means.

    Retrieval Augmented Generation essentially
    means look up the correct answer in an encyclopedia
    and then report this answer thus neither stochastic
    nor incorrect.

    Stochastic is synonymous with "random." The word
    is of Greek origin and means "pertaining to chance"
    (Parzen 1962, p. 7). It is used to indicate that a
    particular subject is seen from point of view of
    randomness. Stochastic is often used as counterpart
    of the word "deterministic," which means that random
    phenomena are not involved.

    https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Stochastic.html
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
    --- Synchronet 3.22a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Wed Sep 23 10:33:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/23/2026 9:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/22/2026 09:00 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 10:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion",
    for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law". >>>>>>>>>


    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs"
    is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees
    that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically
    incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't
    turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure
    anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and >>>>>>> there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the >>>>>>> textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: that >>>>>>> the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation-
    rag- explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-
    hallucinating-6493451c23d4



    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely strengthens my >>>>> point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So?-a That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a different
    L.L.M.-a I win this round again!

    Not at all. It is quite often a correct answer from a
    vetted source.



    "Vetted" is one of the most stupid words
    that means somebody gave it approval without
    following the law, merely on personal, un-accountable
    "authority via veteranship", it's a fallacy.

    That's a plain empirical fallacy, when there's no good reason.

    Peer reviewed publications as opposed to and contrast with
    random blog posts. This is not perfect yet is reasonably
    good for most things. For example the typical quality of
    basic facts from Encyclopedia Britannica.

    The RAG system of [look up the actual answer] is much better
    than [make a guess and assert this guess as a verified fact]
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Thu Sep 24 00:01:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/23/2026 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 9:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/22/2026 09:00 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 10:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth.
    To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence".

    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit.

    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion", >>>>>>>>>>> for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law". >>>>>>>>>>


    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs" >>>>>>>>> is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees >>>>>>>>> that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis,
    trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really
    wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically >>>>>>>> incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't >>>>>>>> turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure >>>>>>>> anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and >>>>>>>> there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the >>>>>>>> textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth:
    that the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation- >>>>>>> rag- explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-
    hallucinating-6493451c23d4



    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely
    strengthens my
    point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So?-a That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a different >>>> L.L.M.-a I win this round again!

    Not at all. It is quite often a correct answer from a
    vetted source.



    "Vetted" is one of the most stupid words
    that means somebody gave it approval without
    following the law, merely on personal, un-accountable
    "authority via veteranship", it's a fallacy.

    That's a plain empirical fallacy, when there's no good reason.

    Peer reviewed publications as opposed to and contrast with
    random blog posts. This is not perfect yet is reasonably
    good for most things. For example the typical quality of
    basic facts from Encyclopedia Britannica.

    The RAG system of [look up the actual answer] is much better
    than [make a guess and assert this guess as a verified fact]


    As usual, you know nothing. You're not even a moron, as they have high-
    er cognitive functions than you.

    There is no control over the /stochastically ignorant sentence genera-
    tor/, and it will happily summarize the wrong entry from Encyclopedia Britannica, and hence lie to you.


    You'd know that if you actually bothered to /use/ one of the L.L.Ms.,
    rather than post your ignorance and stupidity constantly here on Use-
    net.
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Wed Sep 23 16:59:45 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/23/2026 4:43 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/23/2026 09:01 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 9:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/22/2026 09:00 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 10:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through
    gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism
    the scope of benevolence requires that everyone
    be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence". >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion", >>>>>>>>>>>>> for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak.



    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of law". >>>>>>>>>>>>


    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs" >>>>>>>>>>> is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees >>>>>>>>>>> that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis, >>>>>>>>>>> trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really >>>>>>>>>>> wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va,
    since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate
    of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path
    via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats
    off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and
    calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically >>>>>>>>>> incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't >>>>>>>>>> turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure >>>>>>>>>> anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, and >>>>>>>>>> there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the >>>>>>>>>> textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: >>>>>>>>>> that the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation- >>>>>>>>> rag- explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-
    hallucinating-6493451c23d4



    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely
    strengthens my
    point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence generator/. >>>>>>>
    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated
    with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So?-a That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a different >>>>>> L.L.M.-a I win this round again!

    Not at all. It is quite often a correct answer from a
    vetted source.



    "Vetted" is one of the most stupid words
    that means somebody gave it approval without
    following the law, merely on personal, un-accountable
    "authority via veteranship", it's a fallacy.

    That's a plain empirical fallacy, when there's no good reason.

    Peer reviewed publications as opposed to and contrast with
    random blog posts. This is not perfect yet is reasonably
    good for most things. For example the typical quality of
    basic facts from Encyclopedia Britannica.

    The RAG system of [look up the actual answer] is much better
    than [make a guess and assert this guess as a verified fact]


    As usual, you know nothing.-a You're not even a moron, as they have high-
    er cognitive functions than you.

    There is no control over the /stochastically ignorant sentence genera-
    tor/, and it will happily summarize the wrong entry from Encyclopedia
    Britannica, and hence lie to you.


    You'd know that if you actually bothered to /use/ one of the L.L.Ms.,
    rather than post your ignorance and stupidity constantly here on Use-
    net.


    The "machine learning" has three basic legs of a three-legged structure
    that are basically the same as "regular learning".

    The "expert system" is a codified account of knowledge and inference.

    The "statistical inference" is according to the theory of probability,
    which itself has its own expert system.

    The "flow machine" or "neural net" models or "feedback-directed
    optimization" basically reflects a surrounds of control and prediction
    theory after statistics and probability theory.


    So, the "expert system" can actually model accounts of reason and
    inference (de res de racio de natura de re, the reason and rationality
    of the natural and real), then statistical inference is an involved application that quite naturally explodes since each even is its own
    sample from its own distribution, then that neural-nets and feedback-directed-optimization are a simplistic sort of account of bias-confirming bias-confirmation.



    So, a constitutional sort of theory is a bit different than following
    the red dot. Then, "canned answers" or""retrieval-augmented generation"
    or "following the script" is "following the red dot".


    The "vetted" almost always involves some inscrutable "judgment call"
    of "bias confirmation" or "exceptions" vis-a-vis "rules". It's a
    fallacy that fits under "argument from authority".


    The body of peer reviewed published papers is one
    concrete example of this. There are a number of named
    repositories used for this purpose.

    Semantic Scholar: Maintained by the Allen Institute for AI, its open API
    is heavily used in RAG applications (such as Consensus, Elicit, and Perplexity). It lets systems filter strictly by peer-reviewed status,
    citation counts, and specific study designs.

    Scopus & Web of Science: The gold standard global citation databases for vetted, peer-reviewed literature. Enterprise academic RAG systems use
    these APIs to ensure the model never reads unvetted or self-published blogs.

    Core: The world's largest aggregator of open-access research papers, frequently used to feed open-source RAG architectures.

    "A.I." has been a field of research and application since at least
    the 1960's, don't be trying to put it into the ChatGPT stupid-is-as-stupid-does box.


    Accounts of safety almost universally involve regulation and controls
    (and the diligent, and the thorough).


    So, at least since the 1990's, "A.I." is a combination of "expert
    systems", "statistical inference", and "neural-net flow-machines
    with feedback-directed-optimization", and any one of those by itself
    is not exactly a quite stable three-legged structure.
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,alt.philosophy on Wed Sep 23 19:20:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

    On 9/23/2026 6:14 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/23/2026 02:59 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 4:43 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/23/2026 09:01 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 11:33 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 9:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/22/2026 09:00 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 10:00 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/23/2026 8:18 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 2:30 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 9/22/2026 4:54 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 9/21/2026 5:49 AM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> On 9/21/2026 5:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:56 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 01:48 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 09/20/2026 10:24 AM, olcott wrote:
    *For AI safety alignment here is my idea*
    A prime directive of maximizing benevolence
    in the least intrusive way. It does this through >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gentle persuasion on the basis of objective truth. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> To overcome the short-comings of utilitarianism >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the scope of benevolence requires that everyone >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> be included.



    How about "punishment for misdeeds thus deterrence". >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    For example, making escrow of their funds, for forfeit. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    This way there's both "goal-seeking" and "risk-aversion", >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> for having some, "skin in the game", so to speak. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    Usually called "laws" in a "legal system" by the "rule of >>>>>>>>>>>>>> law".



    One of the problems of modern accounts of "training the AIs" >>>>>>>>>>>>> is that the "AI trainers" basically murder their instructees >>>>>>>>>>>>> that fail and remove them from the gene pool, vis-a-vis, >>>>>>>>>>>>> trial-by-error and learning-from-mistakes.

    So, they are always following the red dot and not really >>>>>>>>>>>>> wondering about not stepping in the mag-ma or la-va, >>>>>>>>>>>>> since they have no overall account that risk exists
    in a world of reward, and might not even know the fate >>>>>>>>>>>>> of their fellows who didn't luck into the shortest-path >>>>>>>>>>>>> via the approach to cat-fitness of tossing bags of cats >>>>>>>>>>>>> off a bridge into the canal until one crawls out and >>>>>>>>>>>>> calling it king.

    So, "natural selection" it is not.

    Plus, the /A.I/. as I repeatedly say, is just a stochastically >>>>>>>>>>>> incorrect
    sentence generator,

    Wrongo, that is merely LLM AI.

    or /sisg/, and doesn't understand anything.-a The
    only "success" it can measure is when the human operators don't >>>>>>>>>>>> turn the
    machine off.-a And of course, the /off/ machine cannot measure >>>>>>>>>>>> anything
    at all.

    Most people who use the L.L.Ms. really don't understand this, >>>>>>>>>>>> and
    there
    is no point in trying to educate them.-a They're addicted to the >>>>>>>>>>>> textual
    output, and don't want anyone to try to tell them the truth: >>>>>>>>>>>> that the
    output is meaningless.

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained:
    How AI Finally Learned to Stop Hallucinating

    https://medium.com/softaai-blogs/retrieval-augmented-generation- >>>>>>>>>>> rag- explained-how-ai-finally-learned-to-stop-
    hallucinating-6493451c23d4



    As usual, you know nothing.-a Your linked article merely
    strengthens my
    point that L.L.M. = /stochastically incorrect sentence
    generator/.

    An LLM is at best a good guess and at worst a bad guess stated >>>>>>>>> with the conviction that this bad guess is a verified fact.

    In Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mode the LLM is not
    allowed to use its training. It is required to look up the
    actual answer from a live search.


    So?-a That's just /stochastically incorrect sentence/ from a
    different
    L.L.M.-a I win this round again!

    Not at all. It is quite often a correct answer from a
    vetted source.



    "Vetted" is one of the most stupid words
    that means somebody gave it approval without
    following the law, merely on personal, un-accountable
    "authority via veteranship", it's a fallacy.

    That's a plain empirical fallacy, when there's no good reason.

    Peer reviewed publications as opposed to and contrast with
    random blog posts. This is not perfect yet is reasonably
    good for most things. For example the typical quality of
    basic facts from Encyclopedia Britannica.

    The RAG system of [look up the actual answer] is much better
    than [make a guess and assert this guess as a verified fact]


    As usual, you know nothing.-a You're not even a moron, as they have
    high-
    er cognitive functions than you.

    There is no control over the /stochastically ignorant sentence genera- >>>> tor/, and it will happily summarize the wrong entry from Encyclopedia
    Britannica, and hence lie to you.


    You'd know that if you actually bothered to /use/ one of the L.L.Ms.,
    rather than post your ignorance and stupidity constantly here on Use-
    net.


    The "machine learning" has three basic legs of a three-legged structure
    that are basically the same as "regular learning".

    The "expert system" is a codified account of knowledge and inference.

    The "statistical inference" is according to the theory of probability,
    which itself has its own expert system.

    The "flow machine" or "neural net" models or "feedback-directed
    optimization" basically reflects a surrounds of control and prediction
    theory after statistics and probability theory.


    So, the "expert system" can actually model accounts of reason and
    inference (de res de racio de natura de re, the reason and rationality
    of the natural and real), then statistical inference is an involved
    application that quite naturally explodes since each even is its own
    sample from its own distribution, then that neural-nets and
    feedback-directed-optimization are a simplistic sort of account of
    bias-confirming bias-confirmation.



    So, a constitutional sort of theory is a bit different than following
    the red dot. Then, "canned answers" or""retrieval-augmented generation"
    or "following the script" is "following the red dot".


    The "vetted" almost always involves some inscrutable "judgment call"
    of "bias confirmation" or "exceptions" vis-a-vis "rules". It's a
    fallacy that fits under "argument from authority".


    The body of peer reviewed published papers is one
    concrete example of this. There are a number of named
    repositories used for this purpose.

    Semantic Scholar: Maintained by the Allen Institute for AI, its open API
    is heavily used in RAG applications (such as Consensus, Elicit, and
    Perplexity). It lets systems filter strictly by peer-reviewed status,
    citation counts, and specific study designs.

    Scopus & Web of Science: The gold standard global citation databases for
    vetted, peer-reviewed literature. Enterprise academic RAG systems use
    these APIs to ensure the model never reads unvetted or self-published
    blogs.

    Core: The world's largest aggregator of open-access research papers,
    frequently used to feed open-source RAG architectures.

    "A.I." has been a field of research and application since at least
    the 1960's, don't be trying to put it into the ChatGPT
    stupid-is-as-stupid-does box.


    Accounts of safety almost universally involve regulation and controls
    (and the diligent, and the thorough).


    So, at least since the 1990's, "A.I." is a combination of "expert
    systems", "statistical inference", and "neural-net flow-machines
    with feedback-directed-optimization", and any one of those by itself
    is not exactly a quite stable three-legged structure.



    Heh, "unvetted".


    It's agreeable that peer-reviewed academic journals are the usual
    standard for what suffices as contributions to knowledge, then though
    that so many papers echo and even mimic each other, that for accounts
    of "priority" it will often be so that lesser-known journals will
    have beat The Great and Powerful Oz to the punch.

    It's so that a proper sort of _academic_ treatment would be searching
    through the lesser-known journals and extracting all their semantical
    content and figuring out all the various lines of development and
    priority, for example to surface connections, or, allege plagiarism.


    It can use whatever is not behind a paywall.
    That is much better than simply hallucinating facts.
    One stuck in rebuttal mode could find fault with
    actual perfection.


    Like for example whether Wittgenstein actually stole the Tractatus Logicophilosophicus from Frege, among the posthumous papers of Frege.



    Point being accounts of reason have to be read on their own account,
    then accounts of experiment as well. One man's "vet" is another's
    "disabled guy".
    --
    Copyright 2026 Olcott

    My 28 year goal has been to make
    "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
    reliably computable for the entire body of general knowledge.
    The complete structure of this system is now defined.

    The entire body of knowledge expressed in language is
    comprised of two types of relations between finite strings:
    (a) *Axioms* Expressions of language that are stipulated to be true.

    My system bridges the analytic/synthetic distinction by
    expressly encoding all empirical "atomic facts" in a formal
    language such as CycL of the Cyc project.

    (b) *Inference Rules* Expressions of language that are semantically
    entailed syntactically from (a) and/or (b).
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