This is an excellent read for a Sunday morning at this link. It grabs an idea and then wanders all over the place with it just like my mind does. It is an idea that I have thought about before but reading it as expressed by someone else gives it new light. It still wanders all over the place and that is the fun in where it takes me.
Rules and regs drive our lives. The do and don'ts of living. Do this because, don't do that because. Do good things and do the better good thing to get get better, be better, whatever the nature of judgmental "better" happens to be. Relatively dependent on who is laying down the definitions. There are rewards for choosing the better thing defined by whoever hands out the reward incentives or the disincentive not to choose the better thing......guilt in not doing a better thing. Or, simply not doing your best.
On the other hand don't do this, don't do that on the negative side of rules and regs have bigger, badder biting teeth for non-compliance. "Do no harm" might be the continental divide of good and bad where anything on the good side is OK but some things are more OK than others with a wide latitude of choice as long as the no harm rule is observed. On the bad side, bad is bad unlike a choice between two good alternatives, one being "better good" somehow, defined by some thing.
Algorithmic Regulation is learning starts early in life. At birth. Anything goes for a baby then it starts to learn what goes and what does not. It gets more and more complex. An operating system is simply a highly organized form of Algorithmic Regulation with millions of lines of code to sort out all the things to be done and do them with consistency.
Family values set AR rules and regs. Then school and then wider society in general as age progresses. Religion sets AR based on authority. Catholic school taught me that all authority comes from God. The AR setter. A range of good deeds, good paths to choose from, the road to hell clearly defined with major and minor do-nots. Mortal sin (death of the soul go to hell things) and venial sin where only some time out is assigned. Then there is cross over. Not doing the best possible thing in the good side with the talent given by God somehow warrants the punishment of a choice and action assigned to doing a no-no. It is however essentially binary good/bad situation. Rarely does doing some transgression on the bad side get of the algorithm get a heavenly reward unless it is done in the name of God. It gets confusing if too many questions are asked and the Algorithmic Regulation has ambiguity or illogical premise. The rule in this case is don't ask questions. Have faith, I suppose. If you don't it is against the rules.
An Operating System as an Algorithmic Regulation processor shifts the line of thought about good and bad to a highly defined and structured conceptual social control system. A system that addresses the nature of both cause and effect in social system structures.
At this point roaming general thoughts about good and bad stuff driving our lives and the broader nature of the collective life called society the application of AR like an operating system becomes very fascinating.
With a little time out to go kayaking I will come back to that fascinating idea that the AR link presented.
An Operating System, the kind necessary for AR is a science kind of thing. Belief (faith) however is not a science kind of thing unless it has a science structured set of tests. This is an excellent link describing how the Libertarian Belief in Absolute Property Rights leads to Climate Change Denial.
Something to ponder while I paddle.
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