Status Updates From The Singularity Is Nearer: ...

“One of the great challenges of adapting to technological changes is that they tend to bring diffused benefits to a large population and concentrated harms to a small group.”

This was way more hopeful than i thought. Kurzweil came with receipts! though I’d have love to see more on the timeline reasoning.

Also - what a mind!!!! 🔥

“. . . but the current number of active nuclear warheads is sufficient to end our civilization. . . “

🫠😭

“Employment is not an end in itself but a means to an end.

One goal of work is to meet the material needs of life. Another goal of work is to give purpose and meaning to our life.”

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“News is a misleading way to understand the world. It’s always about events that happened and not about things that didn’t happen.”

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The Anthropic principle - the universe's fundamental constants and laws of nature are uniquely tuned to allow for the existence of intelligent life, because if they were not, we would not be here to observe it

“Of all the configurations that the universe theoretically could have had, only the very tiniest fraction would have allowed us to exist.”

❤️

“In a scenario where we gradually shift the information in your brain on to a non biological substrate, we have much stronger reason to believe your subjective consciousness will be preserved.”

🤯😭🫠

“. . .the significance of a river eroding one grain of stone at a time. . .“

The human brain remains an unexplored ocean,with pockets of beaches unmapped.The machine brain we created mirrors a black box when we open it up.

I am fascinated by the convergence of these 2 types of brain-the singularity.

I’m interested in mechanistic interpretability and other surgical tools we explore machine brains with.🥰