What advice/concrete instructions would a future superintelligence send down to me that would completely transform my life
This is tricky, because there is a tradeoff between how good the advice is, and your ability to use it properly.
When I thought about an advice I could give (using some kind of time machine) to my younger self, I thought “but there is little chance that my younger self would interpret these instructions correctly”. It would be cheating to post the entire Sequences. I am not sure if I could make a useful extract, especially one that cannot be easily misinterpreted by a teenager.
So similarly, if suddenly a portal opened and my older (post-Signularity?) self gave me some good advice, I would probably start screaming: “I need more details!”
Why is the number of different vegetables not exploding?
Map vs territory: are we really missing new vegetables, or only new names for vegetables? I mean, are there some things that we just call “adjective1 X” and “adjective2 X” because they appeared relatively recently, but we would have separate names “X” and “Y” for them if they appeared millennia ago?
I mean, who decides that red / yellow / green bell pepper are considered the same kind of vegetable, or white / yellow / red / purple raddish, but e.g. broccoli and cauliflower are considered different vegetables?
How exactly did we bootstrap ourselves to smaller and smaller computer hardware?
Not sure I understand the question. We started with big. But if you try making things faster, you are limited by the speed of light (or electricity) in you circuits. These days, with gigahertz speeds, it’s literally centimeters. Though I am not sure whether this was the actually the first reason for computers getting smaller.
This is tricky, because there is a tradeoff between how good the advice is, and your ability to use it properly.
When I thought about an advice I could give (using some kind of time machine) to my younger self, I thought “but there is little chance that my younger self would interpret these instructions correctly”. It would be cheating to post the entire Sequences. I am not sure if I could make a useful extract, especially one that cannot be easily misinterpreted by a teenager.
So similarly, if suddenly a portal opened and my older (post-Signularity?) self gave me some good advice, I would probably start screaming: “I need more details!”
Map vs territory: are we really missing new vegetables, or only new names for vegetables? I mean, are there some things that we just call “adjective1 X” and “adjective2 X” because they appeared relatively recently, but we would have separate names “X” and “Y” for them if they appeared millennia ago?
I mean, who decides that red / yellow / green bell pepper are considered the same kind of vegetable, or white / yellow / red / purple raddish, but e.g. broccoli and cauliflower are considered different vegetables?
Not sure I understand the question. We started with big. But if you try making things faster, you are limited by the speed of light (or electricity) in you circuits. These days, with gigahertz speeds, it’s literally centimeters. Though I am not sure whether this was the actually the first reason for computers getting smaller.