subby + mengamok : compounded with authoritarian public policy

A tangent on the personality-skew of Malays.

Upon this post, a Threads friend, a practicing Muslim, said they weren't fond of support for the conservative legal system. To which I joked, 

"I think it's a personality thing. Regardless of choice of creed ...

• a) some people like jerking themselves
• b) some people like to be whipped

:D"

To which they said they suspected it was a "... Malay thing because the way they put themselves beneath everyone else ..." etc. 

To which, I responded, not-intended as a joke :

"Being subby + mengamok in Malay culture has had anthropological attention.

• 1. Hypothesis that living in the non-hurricane + non-ring-of-fire + non-desert has setup a comfortable environment and thus culture.
• 2. The introduction of Islam as an ideology of self-restraint has a deep interaction with 1., which may of course have both healthy and pathological modes.
• 3. The pathological mode of 2., is excessive restraint without reasonable support structure, increases risk of explosive release."

Then we talked further about downstream public policy, and how it has shaped knowledge, culture, and daily tendencies for all Malaysians.

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Friend said, "fact that religion overrides logic annoys ... [ redacted ] ... not even theology ... [ redacted ] ... just basic common sense". To which I responded : 

"- "common sense" is a notion that disregards cultural structure

- going into the structures, it seems you prefer a different culture

- structures are built from various factors ( discussed above in our chat )

- a lot of the structure in Malaysia is authoritarian, which aligns with the Mahathir era of Malaysia's development ( he wasn't a cleric, but clerical developments advanced in parallel with his public policies )"

religious polemics on edge in Malaysian politics

Malaysian public narratives are on edge with religious political polemic. From 30,000 feet, you should have in mind that : 

• 1. Malaya has a ~47% religiously conservative-Muslim voter base. Birthrates, past and present, indicate that this base will grow in the near term ( 1-2 decades ). Sources say that as many as 86% of the country's Muslims support the official status of the Syariah legal system.
• 2. Sabah and Sarawak are on the way to getting a super-minority of parliamentary seats, 35%, which would allow them to collectively block unfavourable constitutional amendments ( requires 67% ).
• 2a. This furthermore means that with less than 50% of Malayan support, a unified Sabah and Sarawak could PASS constitutional amendments.
• 2b. Note that Sabah has become more conservative-Muslim since 1963, for interesting reasons you should read on separately.

Come on science bots ... chop chop

 A robot that does science needs to have :

• 1. fundamentally sense-modal data-types
• 2. spatio-temporal model of said data-types
• 3. freedom to form, and test hypotheses in those data-types

It'll be a while ... but we'll get there :) I have no doubt about it.

• LLMs simply do not have 1., and they don't even do logic very well ... 
• whereas ATPs do logic very well, 
• and game-engines are a simple example of 2. 

So we will need all these pieces in an anthropomorphic science bot