reminded me of:
"They're Made Out of Meat" - Terry Bisson
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the past I guess 20 years of my life now, I've been intently using most of my free time to explore 3 main areas distinctly: quantum mechanical processes, spiritual philosophy, entheogens. I explored them all quite separately as deeply as I've been able to find the time for through following their individual curiosities, however over the past 5 years of reflection, taking a lot of time off, battling myself, they s…
Do you have any brief reflections on Taosim to share?
brief, sadly not, round about reflection, certainly: https://b.h4x.zip/love/
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#133Doesn't really make much sense. It states that this is a purely mechanistic world with no emotion. So why would a machine be "bored" and wish to create a human?
Yea, not really. It also writes: "Some among the machine society see this as potentially amazing...Others see it as a threat." That sounds like a human society, not machine society. But what really is a machine society? Or a machine creature? Can they actually "think"? A machine creature, if it existed, it's behaviour would be totally different from a human, it doesn't seem they would be able to think, but rather cal…
> That sounds like a human society, not machine society.
Does it? Different algorithms can evaluate something and come to different outcomes. I do agree that "potentially amazing" is not a good choice of words.
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#134"Written by a human [0]" I've been playing around with this on my own blog. I'd like the blogging community to have a consensus on a nice badge we can put at the top of our blog posts, representing who/what wrote the post; - human - hybrid - ai Some might hate the idea of a fully "ai" post, and that's fair. But I like to sometimes treat my blog as just a personal reference, and if after a long day of chasing an esote…
There's the "Not by AI" badge[0]. [0] https://notbyai.fyi/
They expect you to pay for these badges? Madness.
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#135Imperfection and randomness is a strength (that's why evolution doesn't make perfect copies, you might end up with the random mutation that protects you from the next pandemic) you could imagine that machines need human intelligence to think outside the box
Hallucinations.
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#136What this thread keeps surfacing, and so much discussion around this stuff generally right now, from speculation about the next phase of intelligence, the role of pattern, emotion, logic, debates over consciousness, the anthropocentrism of our meaning-making...is that we are the source of reality (and ourselves). Instead of a “final authority” or a simple march from animal to machine, what if everything from mind, ph…
Where do you think morality fits into this game? It seems that we agree that underneath it all is unfathomable and ineffable magic. The question is how does this influence how you act in the game?
I go back and forth on the usefulness of considering morality particularly other than accepting it as a race condition/updater system/thing that happens. I have some more unique and fairly strong views on karma and bardo that would be a very long comment to get into it, but I think Vedic/Vedanta(Advaita) is good, I think this is a good doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyPwBIOL7-8
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#137> You would not walk through the streets of this world and hear music or laughter or children playing; no, all you would hear is the quiet hum of processors and servers and circuits, the clanking of machinery.
Hmm... that's exactly what most towns where I live are like. All you hear is cars.
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#138> Perhaps you, a human, read this and think: Well, this world sounds kind of boring. Some of the machines think so, too. > Most of the machines got bored of the project. But, all of a sudden, things began to get interesting. > The result was like nothing the machines had ever seen. It was wonderful > Machine society began obsessing over this development. > The machines were impressed. And a bit scared. Boredom, inter…
The superset of "emotion" is heuristic. Machines without heuristics wouldn't get very far. Their heuristics would probably look quite different from ours though.
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#139Nice try but the story has a plot hole that shows early: there is no reason for machines to create humans.
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#140> Perhaps you, a human, read this and think: Well, this world sounds kind of boring. Some of the machines think so, too. > Most of the machines got bored of the project. But, all of a sudden, things began to get interesting. > The result was like nothing the machines had ever seen. It was wonderful > Machine society began obsessing over this development. > The machines were impressed. And a bit scared. Boredom, inter…
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