Your Digital Twin – The You-iVerse Game – Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Doug Hohulin
To Save 1 Billion Lives with AI, Exponential Blueprint Consulting LLC, President/Founder, When the AI System Has to Be Right: Healthcare, AV, Policy, Energy. Co-Author of 2030: A Blueprint for Humanity's Exponential Leap
"IT IS BETTER TO LIVE YOUR OWN DESTINY IMPERFECTLY THAN TO IMITATE SOMEBODY ELSE’S PERFECTLY." — BHAGAVAD GITA, CHAPTER 3, VERSE 35 as quoted by Kai-Fu Lee; Chen Qiufan, in the book: AI 2041
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” —?Jean de La Fontaine as quoted by Master Oogway
Mirror mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all?
There will be 2 technology trends that will have profound impacts on humanity this decade
See the blogs:
From Zoomers (Gen-Z) to Voomers (Gen-V) – “Virtual Native” Generation https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/from-zoomers-gen-z-voomers-gen-v-digital-native-virtual-doug-hohulin/
Digital Twin – Understanding the Ghost in the Machine https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/digital-twin-understanding-ghost-machine-doug-hohulin/
Would you want a digital twin??What would you use it for?
In the story of Snow White, Snow White is a beautiful and kindhearted princess that charms every creature in the kingdom except one - her jealous stepmother, the Queen. The Queen has a Magic Mirror that answers any question (the google of her day).?She asked the questions: Mirror mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all??Because of the information she receives, the story unfolds.?The Queen tries to win back her position of?being the fairest of them all.
For the Queen, I would argue that turning yourself into a witch that kills the innocent makes you very “unfair.”?You do not win the “who’s the fairest of them all” game by harming others.
This article by Jeff Wiener?gives added insight “but let’s imagine (we can do that here), that the mirror had listed the five things that the queen needed to do in order to be the fairest in the land?”
?“People grow by being self-reflective and by making adjustments to their behavioral patterns. For those who are open-minded, that self-reflection can be cathartic. For those who believe they are perfect, that self-reflection might not result in improvement. After all, they believe they are perfect, so there’s no need to change.”?
The “You-iVerse Game”
I created the “You-iVerse Game” – it is to help with a thought experiment of creating a digital twin, what information is available in the public digital universe, my computer, my phone.?If it begins to shadow my physical life, how much of me would it know? And become more like me??How much would I believe like te? (“te” is my digital twin’s pronoun)
How much more of me would te know after shadowing me for 1 year, 10 years?
“I contain multitudes” - Song of Myself, 51 - Walt Whitman “The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.”
What is the Venn Diagram of My Life – My You-iVerse??How much does my family, friends, boss, coworkers, the government, internet know maybe me???How much is overlap between people??How much have I forgotten??What part can I get back??How much is inaccurate information? How much is my false memories of my life?
Sir Thomas More in the Movie Man for all Seasons?states “I will not give in, because I oppose it. Not my pride, not my spleen, nor any other of my appetites, but I do, I. Is there, in the midst of all this muscle, no sinew that serves no appetite... of Norfolk's, but is just Norfolk?”
What in the mist of all my information, muscle, sinew, appetite... of me, but is just me?
How to play the “You-iVerse Game”
You play with your friends & family.?Each person takes turns being the “You” who the questions are being asked about.?
The “You” will be the judge for that round.?
The first player has to ask a questions about “You” to see if the other players knows the most about “You” - the You-iVerse.?They can only ask questions that are public answers.?
Questions have to be respectful– nothing too personal.?“You” has the right to veto a question – maybe the person answering the question will have to answer the question about themselves.?(Only ask questions you would want to answer the question for yourself.)?
The other players get a point if they can answer the question.?The person asking the question gets a point if the other players can not answer the question. The person asking the question loses a point if the answer is wrong. The "You" is the judge of the right answer.
Then the next person asks the question.?At the end of the round,?"You" judges the best / most insightful question asks and gives a point to that person.????Then, the next player becomes the "You" the other people ask question about.
This game can be played where the “You” is a parent or grandparent who is dead.?
In the video - Could You Live Forever??https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2cphuMbqfc
“It has been estimated that the majority of us will be remembered for 75 years at most. The ancient Egyptians called this the second death, when their names would be forgotten.?…
Time is vast. It is easy to envision a hundred years, a thousand years. But imagine 5 billion years from now when our Sun becomes a Red Giant and begins to expand. The oceans on Earth boil away and eventually the Sun devours our planet. And there you are 5 billion years later which would still be a speck of dust in the infinite life ahead of you. Open your eyes and I want you to imagine something else. Imagine no longer being alive. You can’t can you? We can’t comprehend nothingness, just thinking about nothing is something. But we know at some point we are going to die yet we can’t imagine not being alive. It’s called the Mortality Paradox. And this is what drives humanity to pursue living forever.”
“Except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death. - Jorge Luis Borges
Human History is a story of each human, their life, who they are.?A Multi-Verse of stories.?How much do we know of each person??What information is lost?
Google Counted The World's 129 Million Books in 2010?https://www.wired.com/2010/08/how-google-counted-the-worlds-129-million-books/
the total numbers of published book is approximately 2.2 million per year https://askwonder.com/research/business-books-published-worldwide-year-annual-numbers-past-ten-years-ideal-qcrwjft2o#:~:text=This%20is%20based%20on%20data,approximately%202.2%20million%20per%20year.
So figure ~142M books and counting right now (my guess is the error bars >10% depending on what you count as a book).?This does not include all the digital information from social media being created about each person.
What Questions would you ask my digital twin?
““encyclopedia of thought” is called CYC, …?the project to encode all the secrets of common sense into a single program.?CYC’s goal is simple: master “100 million things, about the number a typical person knows about the world”?Kaku
Here are some questions I started to list for my VR-Doug for me to be more aware of my Doug-iVerse or the You-iVerse in General:
see the article https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/brunch/not-so-blissful-ignorance-the-dunning-kruger-effect-at-work
Some other questions to consider:
But now if the AI scans this comment, it would answer this way for these last 2 questions as my digital twin.
I do not have an answer right now for the last question on free will, would my digital twin know? What does it say if my digital twin knows more than me. ??
The challenge (if you are trying to match your human response) is how to make your Digital Twin only know what?you know and not more than you do and not know everything the internet knows. Personally, I am fine that my digital twin will knowing more than me.
Your digital twin would know what you did every day of your life (if that data was available to the AI). Would your digital twin remembers the events of your life better than you do?
see: Recollections of the circumstances of how we first heard of the 2001 terrorist attacks may feel extraordinarily vivid and true, but they are flawed “Our measure of accuracy is consistency with what people told us in the survey the week after the attack. From that first survey to the second survey a year later, the overall consistency of the details of how they learned of 9/11 was only 63 percent. At the third survey, three years after the attack, consistency was 57 percent. So people were only a little more than 50 percent right for a lot of the details.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/911-memory-accuracy/
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" – especially ourselves (Sir Walter Scott, 1808)
Brian Christian wrote: “One of the startling results that Shannon found in “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” is that text prediction and text generation turn out to be mathematically equivalent.?A phone that could consistently anticipate what you were intending to write, or at least that could do as well as a human, would be just as intelligent as the program that could write you back like a human.?Meaning that the average American teenager, going by the New York Times’s 2009 statistics on cell phone texting, participates in roughly eighty Turing tests a day. This turns out to be incredibly useful and also incredibly dangerous. In charting the links between data compression and the Turing test’s hunt for the human spark, I’ll explore why.
I want to begin with a little experiment I did recently, to see if it was possible to use a computer to quantify the literary value of James Joyce.?I took a passage from Ulysses at random and saved it on my computer as raw text: 1,717 bytes. Then I wrote the words “blah blah blah” over and over until it matched the length of the Joyce excerpt, and saved that: 1,717 bytes.?Then I had my computer’s operating system, which happens to be Mac OS X, try to compress them. The “blah” file compressed all the way down to 478 bytes, just 28 percent of its previous size, but Ulysses only came down to 79 percent of its prior size, or 1,352 bytes— leaving it nearly three times as large as the “blah” file. When the compressor pushed down, something in the Joyce pushed back.”
If a person could have an analysis of everything he said or wrote, I wonder what this would say about the level of Shannon entropy in his or her communications. Small talk has very little information. (Wikipedia, “Entropy in thermodynamic can be used to determine the energy not available for useful work in a thermodynamic process.”)?Maybe the lack of information in a conversation has something to say about how hard we are working on the conversation.?A boring conversation is deterministic and an interesting one is full of rhythmed and flow that magnifies life - the human spark.
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I am personally interested in the concept of Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity. See Byron Reese’s new book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity. https://gigaom.com/2018/05/29/case-for-and-against-agi/
Storytelling to make sense of the Universe – the more something does not make sense, the more interpretations (stories) there will be.
Some times our world does not make sense (Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Computing, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Problem with Evil, Free Will) and the more something does not make sense, the more interpretations there will be.?Our use of storytelling is a way to see the light. (see attached email on more on this topic)
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.”
Newton's epitaph?- Alexander Pope
May each of us be a light to help our world make sense.
I do wonder if there are similarities of trying to understand Quantum Mechanics and trying to make sense of our world.???“so many different interpretations of x it’s kind of a sign that we might be missing something kind of fundamental”?Maybe rather than focusing on interpretations, focus on the fundamentals.?I tend to believe in Reality is in the observations – “shut up and just” live life to the best of your ability, try to minimizing irritating people and make the world a little better place.???In life, sometimes it is best to just relax and have “a nice sit down and maybe even a biscuit”
I really like this video channel?DoS - Domain of Science that attempts to shine the light on our world by showing maps of each area of science.
See The Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
“You are in the realm of quantum physics and there are some things in quantum physics that simply don’t make sense.?Physicists don’t like things not making sense and so the interpretations of quantum physics are an attempt of many different physicists to come up with ways of making quantum physics make sense.”
Copenhagen interpretation - Reality is in the observations?shut up and calculate interpretation of quantum physics
“So this measurement is sort of a barrier, which shields the quantum realm. We can never see those wave functions, all we can ever see are particles. And in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics what they say is like, us humans, we’ll never see those waves, there’s nothing we can do to access that realm, so don’t worry wondering whether they are real or not real, the important thing are the measurements.?Reality is in the observations. Which is why it has been termed the shut up and calculate interpretation of quantum physics.?“
“I sometimes get asked what is my favourite interpretation and I don’t really have one. My thoughts about this are: because there’s so many different interpretations of quantum physics it’s kind of a sign that we might be missing something kind of fundamental, so maybe one way to attack this problem is to really go back to first principles and back to the fundamental assumptions of quantum physics because there’s some interesting assumptions that were made like when you have a wave function which predicts probabilities of things happening that was just a guess, and it works really really well, but there was no real reason for that other than nice guess work. So, yeah quantum physics is going to… Well that’s the end. Thanks for sticking through all of that. I hope it was of interest. I think you’ve earned yourself a nice sit down and maybe even a biscuit,?
See the book: Double Star by?Robert A. Heinlein, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Star?- I think it relates to creating a digital twin.
The novel is set in the future. The story, which is told in the first person, centers on down-and-out actor Lawrence Smith. A brilliant actor and mimic, he is down to his last coin when a spaceman hires him to double for an unspecified public figure. It is only when he is on his way to Mars that he finds out he will have to impersonate one of the most prominent politicians in the Solar System: John Joseph Bonforte.. Bonforte has been kidnapped by his political opponents, and his aides want Smith to impersonate Bonforte while they try to find him.?Bonforte is rescued, but he is in poor health due to the treatment inflicted on him during his imprisonment. This forces Smith to extend his performance, even to becoming temporary Prime Minister and running in an election. (This is made plausible through Bonforte's extensive Farley files).
A?Farley file?is a set of records kept by politicians on people whom they have met. The term is named for?James Farley,?Franklin Roosevelt's campaign manager. Farley, who went on to become?Postmaster General?and chairman of the?Democratic National Committee, kept a file on everyone he or Roosevelt met. Whenever people were scheduled to meet again with Roosevelt, Farley would review their files. That allowed Roosevelt to meet them again while knowing their spouse, their children's names and ages, and anything else that had come out of earlier meetings or any other intelligence that Farley had added to the file. The effect was powerful and intimate. Farley files are now commonly kept by other politicians and businesspeople. A predecessor may be?Ancient Rome's?nomenclator, "a slave who attended his master during?canvassing?and on similar occasions, for the purpose of telling him the names of those he met in the street."[1]
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it”. This will be the state of XR and Telepresence in the next 7 years.
“Most important, ubiquitous computers will help overcome the problem of information overload. There is more information available at our fingertips during a walk in the woods than in any computer system, yet people find a walk among trees relaxing and computers frustrating.?Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing [and SAFE] as taking a walk in the woods”?https://postscapes.com/internet-of-things-history 1991: Mark Weiser's
Here is a youtube example of what it may be like what a person talks to their digital twin will it become Super easy bellananacovini, as easy as taking a walk in the woods?
"Pitch Meetings" Pitch Meeting (100th Episode Bonus)?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEaSnmf1JwY
Ready Player One Pitch Meeting?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ-Brx048gQ
By asking good questions to your digital twin about yourself, by having a mirror mirror on the wall, it may make you the fairest of them all?
Epilogue
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” – John Wheeler.?Having a digital twin may make for a strange day but an interesting day
Below is addition information on thoughts on this topic.??May find it interesting
“We seek the safety of isolation even as it kills us.”?Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor.??- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 1- 2 ) by Hank Green?
This is a great book that tells the story of AR/VR, Robots, uploading, Aliens, BMI and how to avoid losing our humanity to technology.?
We are Legion (We are Bob) | Dennis E. Taylor | Talks at Google
Related to VR and Story Telling
We will be hearing from Jake Sally, Head of Development at RYOT about the future of storytelling with the latest technology.?RYOT?is a next generation motion picture studio telling stories that move the world. RYOT, Verizon Media’s Emmy Award?-winning immersive storytelling production house Fri, January 8, 2021 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
#967: Open Call for Immersive Storytelling Residency Program 2021 at UNCSA - emerging media and XR programs at METL
January 31st, 2021 is the deadline for a six-month?Immersive Storytelling Residency Program?that runs from May 1st to November 1st, 2021 as a part of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts’?Media + Emerging Technology Lab (METL). There are three different residency roles that will be collaborating over the six months including a game developer/programmer, 3D modeler/technical artist, as well as screenwriter/producer. There’s a monthly $3500 stipend, and a requirement to relocate to Winston-Salem, North Carolina for the duration of the 6-month residency. I talk with METL Director?Ryan Schmaltz?to get more context on the emerging media and XR programs at METL, but also do a bit of a recap of the first artist residency program that ran from March to September of 2020. We talk about some of the lessons learned from the first cohort with the biggest shift of moving the program to span May to November (rather than March to September) in order to make it more accessible to graduating seniors. We also talk about some of the open problems and challenges from design to implementation of an immersive storytelling project, and the opportunity to get feedback from a number of different mentors. I served as a mentor for the first cohort, and I’m planning on returning again for the next cohort to help provide feedback and guidance along the way. METL’s Immersive Storytelling Residency Program is a unique opportunity to get paid a living wage to work on immersive project with a team for six months, and you can get?more information on their website?as well as more context from Schmaltz in this episode.
Charles Isbell and Michael Littman: Machine Learning and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #148
"whether or not machine learning is computational statistics. it's about rules it's about symbols it's about all these other things statistics but it's not just the statistics right it's not just a random variable that you choose. programming languages just if to put it in language that you might understand. a guy named tom landauer taught me to do some statistics right sure and and i was annoyed all the time because the statistics would say that what i was doing was not statistically significant and i was like but but but and basically what he said to me is statistics is how you're going to keep from lying to yourself"
Per your comment of knowing too much see this movie
Indiana Jones 4 (10/10) Movie CLIP - I Want to Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohnkD-gjNVQ
“whoever finds them will control the greatest natural force the world has ever known … power over the mind of men “
One of my favorite Story tellers is John Green (one of my favorite authors and you-tubers)
He wrote this blog - The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgnlkJPga4
My favorite line - “This is a memory that you cannot return to.”?
John Green: “Let’s start with the painting. So if you’ve even been or had a child, you will likely already be familiar with hand stencils. They were the first figurative art made by both our kids somewhere between the ages two and three. My children spread the fingers of one hand out across a piece of paper and then, with the help of a parent, traced their five fingers. I remember my son’s face as he lifted his hand and looked absolutely shocked to see the shape of his hand still on the paper, a semi-permanent record of himself.
I am extremely happy that my children are no longer three and yet to look at their little hands from those early artworks is to be inundated with a strange, soul-splitting joy. Those pictures remind me that they are not just growing up but also growing away from me, running toward their own lives.?But, of course, that’s meaning I am applying to their hand stencils and that complicated relationship between art and its viewers is never more fraught than when we are looking deeply into the past.
In September of 1940, an 18-year-old mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking his dog, Robot, in the countryside of Southwestern France when the dog disappeared down a hole. Robot eventually returned but the next day, Ravidat went to the spot with three friends to explore the hole. And after quite a bit of digging, they discovered a cave with walls covered with paintings, including over 900 paintings of animals, horses, stags, bison and also species that are now extinct, including a wooly rhinoceros. The paintings were astonishingly detailed and vivid with red, yellow and black paint made from pulverized mineral pigments that were usually blown through a narrow tube, possibly a hollowed bone, onto the walls of the cave. It would eventually be established that these artworks were at least 17,000 years old.”
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