mccFeb 4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116004809011481588

Anyway the reason I roll my eyes at most of the discussion about "AI", "AGI", "the singularity", "intelligence self-improvement feedback loop" is that like, it happened, it's already happened, it's been happening, it's us. We're it.

Kurzweil talked about lusting for a machine that can make him smarter. I have that, it's a piece of paper. I can write math on a piece of paper and solve problems I can't solve in my head. I can upload all the information in the world directly into my brain (books).

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@mcc

Excellent and insightful.

I've said the same thing about Von Neumann self replicators.

Compact instruction packages, just need feedstock and energy, unpack to build factories to make more and propogate.

Look at an acorn.

Like your example of folks not wanting to put in the work, the missing element is time.

Feb 4 at 7:02pmWeb
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@pseudonym We live eighty years. Each. That's so much time. That's *so* much time.