kelemahan pendidikan falsafah keagamaan di Malaysia

Falsafah keagamaan Malaysia

Bagi orang, "agama" lebih tinggi daripada "negara". Itu kebiasaan, dan N-agama ada tentuan berasingan bagi 1-negara. Cemane? Itulah politik

• Pihak A, Tanah Melayu, wajib Islam, sebab dulu-dulu Melayu Islam. "negara Islam"
• Pihak B, Tanah Melayu, berpelembagaan bukan hanya Melayu, pada 1957. "negara bukan hanya Islam"

Orang ramai tak fasih perbincangan ini tanpa emosi, sebab sekolah tidak mengajar pemberesan hati dalam bende kebiasaan ini. Kita jiran. Kita berpolitik

eschatology in politics

In case you're wondering why, it is sound citizenship for anyone to express their views on anybody else's religion : well, it is fair to match the room. 

In Malaysia we have theistic narratives of politics, which publicly espouse the tenets of faith, putting into context the world as politique, within the lens of eschatology and continuous creation. Vote! Civilise! Struggle!

So it is merely equal and different to espouse a preference for a vision of the world which may be any of the following : loveless, godless, genderless, kinless, animalless, or otherwise. 🤷🏼

training children

"how to help children deal with bad thoughts?" 

1. Brain is like body. It follows specific operating limits. 

2. Brain operates in conscious and subconscious memory spaces, like two separate pages of a book. Information is transferred back and forth. 

3. When information appears suddenly in the conscious page, it can only come from one place ... The subconscious page. 

4. Training to manage information transfer between pages is always good. 

5. Training to manage writing/ updates/ deletions of both pages is also good. 

👍🏼👍🏼

OF COURSE it is about education. The entire project of education is to train brains.

misallocation of attention

I often make the mistake, of empathising with people who get emotional about the sorts of jobs they can or cannot get. First of all, it's not my problem ... I resigned myself to nonchalance about the job market in 2001. But I suppose it is when we are discussing other things, that their pyramid of concern apparently sits on top of some foundation of being appreciated by other people, aha ... then I have to decide if I stop caring about their entire pyramid, or if I emulate concern for their employability, in order to support their pyramid. 

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Discussion:

• on whether the pay matters more than the opinions
• 1. pain is going to come from hunger, loneliness, shelter, etc. at the bottom of the pyramid
• 2. above that sits the industrial framework of employment ... so this is a means to the ends of the lower layer
• 3. because social credit is the primary means to solve hunger for the unenlightened pleb : the two things you raise are basically the same concern

malaysian culture

Malaysian culture, is whatever any citizen of Malaysia decides is their life. For example, I do not practice filial piety or encourage others to do so.

At the time Malaya was founded, in 1957, about 49% of Malayan culture was no longer Malay. This carried into the ratio architectured by the Malaysia project in 1963, as the bumi ratio rose to 66% but the Malay % of total shrank.

Islamisation from the 1980s increased Malay-Muslim imperialism, and it continues to date. 

What fun. :)

my limited computing experience

I was interested in computers as a kid, but presumed the correct time to study programming was in college, so I did not do much before. The college I got into was no good for programming, so I studied other things. When I got to the commercial job market, after a brief detour through a track-two diplomatic think-tank, my priority was to learn commerce in general, not programming. At my first commercial job, I got to study spreadsheet software, and since it was so familiar to my interests from years before, I wanted to learn more about software usage in commerce. 

Within about 1.5 years I had quit my second commercial job, because there were not enough programming opportunities. My bosses at the investment bank were probably quite disappointed with me. After three more years of working at various zero-to-one companies, I finally had exposure to Linux and HTTP. By this time, it was five years after graduation, and I had about 2.5 years of cumulative programming work experience between 2003 and 2010. I was 27.

Including a sabbatical, by 2015 I had about 4.0 years of programming experience. Then I ran a cafe until 2020, where I did a bit more programming for operations, but the overall project did not work out. 2021 and 2022 were spent on two concurrent corporate jobs where I taught computing and governance to younger people. By then I had about 5.0 years of programming experience, and I was 39. Then I began what has turned into an attempt, at a decade sabbatical.

I wrote this to try and figure out exactly how to compare myself to other people. It feels like I live very slowly.

merit

So, in case you're a social media troll. You'll notice that one ontological device is "deservance", "worthiness", "merit", for example, "I deserve a generous woman" ... now what you need to analyse is :

1. is the speaker using this as a rhetorical ask, in negotiation and advertisement, or

2. do they actually believe in a fairy tale of universal karma ( whether or not they coherently qualify under their own precepts, is a deeper question to be skipped over for now )

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It's fairly easy to answer. You just have to watch and aee how mad they get. 

Tolerable Failure Rates

 My comfortable failure rate in work is about 75%, which is to say that at least 25% of my work has to be productive enough to make up for that amount of failure. The definition of a hard project is where the 25%-win isn't sufficient to pay off the 75%-lose rate, and of course, one then has to adjust.

For cold sales, of course there isn't a great deal of control one has, so I am comfier with higher rates of failure. For things like swipey dating apps, a common swipe conversion rate for guys is 0.3% or 1:300, and this is just conversion to the next hurdle, not final conversion!

For technical work, it's a matter of "is this something I know how to do/fix, or not". When I'm working by myself, for months and years on end, it is common to be sad or depressed ( within completely manageable levels ) for long periods, as there are no options to acquire support.

I have enjoyed my time on earth, involved in work at various levels of risk. I feel rewarded just to have these rare opportunities, which others don't seem to have or which they cannot tolerate.

Enakmen-enakmen Ugama Bukan Islam

The EUBI interstate fabric is quite interesting. It is remarkably absent from popular discourse. I look forward to a time when its constitutional basis can be openly debated without people feeling angsty about it. This is a significant fraction of my public work in Malaysian studies these days. Just talking about it.

computing in 2035 ?!

I've been waiting for computing fabric in bricks and clothes since before AWS launched lambda lol. Still not quite there yet. Broadly I think it's unanswered how computation will distribute out from centralised to edge or mesh topologies.

Industry STILL hasn't figured out that the basis of anthropomorphic conscious experience is the notion that phenomenology can be entirely quantified in terms of sensory data structures. It is very annoying watching them do everything but the important things. :)

Eventually complete commensurability with human function is a given - haven't questioned that since 2004. The more interesting question is how quickly we will graduate AI towards being junior legal persons with frameworks of rights and responsibilities.

AI in Malaysian Public Policy

Sorry I'm late! Not a top priority, but ... one of the drums I am banging on medsos now is AI sovereignty for Malaysia. The only "talked about" foundational model we seem to have in the works is ILMU by YTLol. We seem to be on the right track or a lot of DC capex, and the NSS2024 for the long3-term. We shall see how much attention Putrajaya puts on this. Meanwhile any plans to go very deep on other foundational models are ... apparently not spoken.

Tell me if you know of others!

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Malaysia's AI supply-chain vulnerabilities are discussed briefly below. LLMs are of course, used at all levels of government process. 

And my concerns of course, aren't limited to LLMs or Malaysia. 

Applying the linguistic device of security rings, for illustrative purposes :

Ring 0 :

LLMs may not be the ideal tech to model neuro, but presuming that they are "the present limit of Malaysia's Federal AI interest" ...

Ring 1 :

LLM training and initiation allow for inherently malicious programming, unless otherwise proven. Doesn't matter where it's hosted, just that the foundational model0 is being copied around. 

• 1.1 : open-source largely, but non-exhaustively, solves this
• 1.2 : self-hosting, of course, reduces opportunities for a malicious model to dial-home, or simply perform corruption or inception, in genAI, chat, or other media, but how careful are installers, and operators? 

Ring 2 :

I think fine-tuning and RAG issue pop up here. Downstream developers and vendors can issue their models0.1, 0.2b, etc.

So ILMU is playing down here, in the Ring2 space, and (mis-) calling itself a foundational model. So are mostof the "we use FOSS models" developers. 

Avoidance of intellectual tasks. Algorithm for mechanistic resolution.

• 1. Reify the abstract model at the napkin level.
• 2. Review the napkin model, until its physical form becomes consciously boring - this consolidates in subconscious, the conscious form of the model in its current state, and its evoked subconscious implications.
• 3. Then reiterate from 1, with improvements. Stop when the model complexity is diverging on a trajectory to exceed known cognitive limits : increase reductive prejudice, or assume complete non-feasibility.

Lanes I had chosen

• 1992-2001 : science, and getting to college : "how do things work?" : "how do I get to college?"
• 2001-2005 : canon of civilisation, and quantification of conscious experience : "what is the structure of the total syllabus of education?" : "can a human experience in the first-person be stored losslessly on a hard drive?"
• 2005- : commerce in Malaysia, and software engineering : "how do Malaysians think?" : "what do people in commerce think about?" : "how do I speak with computers?"

I think that means I'm still in phase 3. On with it. 

basic comprehension

• Untrained : Reading and Writing are abstract opposites
• Trained : Reading does not affect the medium, Writing affects it
• Retrained : both Reading and Writing affect the storage medium

After all, Reading and Writing are coloured functions ... that is to say, colour is political, so these are political functions. What is a Read or a Write depends on definitions, decided by those who matter, on a per-context basis.