Website review: FAQ about the Meaning of Life
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•yudkowsky.net/tmol-faq/tmol-faq.html
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robsku rated 11 months ago- FAQ About the Meaning of Life From the page: " * If computing power doubles every two years, what happens when computers are doing the research? * If I created a mind with no built-in desires, what would it do? * How can I do something that will still matter in two hundred million years? For answers to these and other questions, Click on the links below, starting with Orientation."
- Khakicat rated 12 months ago
- how can i do something that will matter in 200 million years?....you just did
- frietje344 rated 12 months ago
- from the page: Our role in the cosmos is to become or create our successors.
- pierrecourso rated 12 months ago
- makes u think
- LeonardoDaVinci rated 12 months ago
- Hmm. This is the kind of stuff I usually go on and on about...But obviously not this time. Its better for everyone to figure out their own answers to all these questions, since those (answers) are the only ones they'll most likely ever accept.
- mightyw00ters rated 13 months ago
- "There's no such thing as science."
"Knowing how to make an atom bomb is absolutely no different from knowing how to drop a rock, and it is nothing more to marvel at."
Those two lines alone prove that this isn't worth anyone's time.
Thumb down. - "There's no such thing as science."
- indien rated 13 months ago
- 1.1: What is humanity's place in the cosmos? The same place held by all the other technology-using species now briefly living on or around the ten billion trillion (1) stars in this Universe: Our role in the cosmos is to become or create our successors. I don't think anyone would dispute that something smarter (or otherwise higher) than human might evolve, or be created, in a few million years. So, once you've accepted that possibility, you may as well accept that neurohacking, BCI (Brain-Computer Interfaces), Artificial Intelligence, or some other intelligence-enhancement technology will transcend the human condition, almost certainly within your lifetime (unless we blow ourselves to dust first). "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended." -- Vernor Vinge, 1993 The really interesting part about the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence is the positive-feedback effect. Technology is the product of intelligence, so when intelligence is enhanced by technology, you've got transhumans who are more effective at creating better transhumans, who are more effective at creating even better transhumans. Cro-Magnons changed faster than Neanderthals, agricultural society changed faster than hunter-gatherer society, printing-press society changed faster than clay-tablet society, and now we have "Internet time". And yet all the difference between an Internet CEO and a hunter-gatherer is a matter of knowledge and culture, of "software". Our "hardware", our minds, emotions, our fundamental level of intelligence, are unchanged from fifty thousand years ago. Within a couple of decades, for the first time in human history, we will have the ability to modify the hardware.
