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Very true, the only exception I can think off is that if I wanted a movie in which I was the main character I would have to spend immense time defining and explaining every aspect of my life and interests.
I can’t imagine any scenario where both progress has continued, and physical humans still exist a century or two from now. Software humans will be free from the horrors of aging of course, and all the problems listed above.
I’m getting more and more worried because the software I have dealt with in real life (as opposed to read about in scifi) is so defectively stupid it’s actually evil (or else the programmers are). Of course often it’s deliberately evil, like scanners that won’t work because the incorporated printer is out of ink.
The worst part of nuclear weapons is they’re not powerful enough. Most victims die slowly.
One of L. Ron Hubbard’s more controversial writings was:
“The seven-year-old girl who shudders because a man kisses her is not computing; she is reacting to an engram since at seven she should see nothing wrong in a kiss, not even a passionate one.”
Scientologists are not allowed to discuss or analyze Hubbard’s writings, but they seem to think he’s merely describing a supernatural effect.
Others interpret the word “should” to mean Hubbard was a big fat pervert. Either way he could have added a few sentences ruling out the worse interpretation here.
This is extremely interesting because if there was an AI whose only purpose was to learn everything about me (to back up my memories and personality) that AI would also have to learn about many different human tasks and activities.
It might try to create a mathematical/imaginary “Egan universe” by simulating a universe in which it can make infinite paperclips by starting and running the simulation as long as possible.
A lot of good reasons by these experts why real AI is a very long way off, but it makes you wonder if deep learning could unexpectedly lead to something profoundly different but just as powerful as awareness, like instead of an organism trying to survive in the world it leads to a series of profound terminal insights.
As well as any other file. Error correction can protect digital data for countless eons.
I have many problems, but boredom has never been one of them, not even one second. So maybe boredom could be programmed out from the AI software somehow? Once you have a digital mind you could make it feel whatever you wanted. I wouldn’t even mind being stuck in an eternal time loop of some sort.
Upvoted for the description of combining many small optimizers as the best way to make a big optimizer to do something complicated. There were earlier posts about this but they were more technical.
There should only be one “hyper computer” on the planet and all smaller information systems, including individual humans should somehow be part of its functioning.
Doom sooner
It would be nice if political phenomena and trends could be accurately summarized from the outside, including the mental or emotional reasons for these trends.
From all the stuff I’ve been reading here lately, it seems the only solution would be total worldwide oversight control of all activities.
The Consistency Mystery
This is due to the vast difference in capabilities between ICs and brains, which has a long way to go to overcome. A computer merely as powerful as a human brain would be the size of a large room and use a lot more energy.
The slow invention of better metaphors over the past few centuries may be enough to explain the Flynn Effect.
My research in trying to write a novel about this subject seems to indicate the experts think that chip speeds and densities are improving so slowly there is no chance of building an AI smart enough to begin improving itself for at least fifteen to twenty years if even then. The only way it might happen sooner is if there was an emergent worldwide effort composed of many separate researchers focusing on different sub-problems of the same highly focused goal, like trying to invent the simplest possible self-replicating nanobot or smallest computing element.
If all young women could be provided with bodyguards or maybe drones they would be kept very busy.