Obedience
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The end of disease? Demis Hassabis: I think that’s within reach. Maybe within the next decade or so, I don’t see why not. […] machine learning does not create any new knowledge […] how is AGI going to suddenly reveal what is now hidden? The sum total of all the medical information in the world right now is not enough.
Drawing from ethology, symbolic violence theory, game theory, and affective neuroscience, we trace the evolution of obedience from animal hierarchies to human systems of internalized authority. […] A simulation illustrates how varying degrees of affective alignment predict obedient behavior, ranging from mechanical compliance to genuine convergence […] Obedience, we argue, emerges not merely from power or rationality, but from affective structure.
In 1719, Parisian prisoners were offered freedom if they agreed to marry prostitutes and move to Louisiana […] Most of the 96 women on board had been labeled “prostitutes,” as if they had been legally convicted of engaging in the exchange of sexual acts for money. But the reality behind the Mutinous Women’s lives in France is far more complicated.
Emily Warren Roebling (1843 – 1903) was an engineer known for her contributions over a period of more than 10 years to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge. More: How 5 Bridges Transformed New York City
