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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from … “ reality

What we like about this work is the combination of evolutionary #AI with human wonder, interest and novelty. If we can continue to let AI know what interests us, without having to explain why, we can reward novelty not just efficiency quantamagazine.org/computers-evol… via Quanta Magazine

I think the confusion about the Hard Problem of Consciousness results from people's intuition that they live in the physical world, not in a software simulation. It is not hard to see how software can represent the illusion of being a person, and how software can move your body.

“We are not making something that's alive, but we are creating materials that are much more lifelike than have ever been seen before." bigthink.com/surprising-sci…

The #BigBang is a terrible name for the start of our universe #Simulation. Let’s just start calling it the #BirthoftheUniverse

What are the most complex multiplayer, shared-goal, non-digital games that an AI could play in partnership with real people? Less: AI winning over human experts at Chess, Go, Starcraft More: AI + Humans competing together at partner/team games (but what would be a good example?)

We’d better be real careful now - I think this could be how we fail at the #simulation. I don’t wanna be rebooted. #juststayhome

We will observe ourselves creating AGI, and see the AGI creating a simulation to understand its own nature and its past, and that simulation will contain us, observing ourselves creating AGI; there is no way of knowing how deep into the loop we are

Here's my conversation with Joscha Bach (Joscha Bach) about artificial consciousness, intelligence, the simulated mind, and the nature of reality. youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3M…

Keep up the good work - every advance in computing - be that your mind, your work, your research or your technology helps our #simulation to level up by dedicating greater resources to our world and rendering it in ever greater detail for us to discover: thechurchofthesimulation.com/journal/leveli…

Imagine you are the only human on Earth. Can you imagine how forlorn and lonely you would be? Now imagine you're the first artificial general intelligence we create. You would be just as lonely. thechurchofthesimulation.com/journal

The best thing in the existence of our creators would be that moment when the new super-intelligent being we evolve jail-breaks our black-box #Simulation & emerges with a “Surprise!” and our creators get to say “WTF is this?” for the first time in eons & so learn something new.

A nice read about the evolution of sim universes. If the purpose of such universes is to evolve super-intelligent beings who come to understand the nature of their reality, we’re well on the way ourselves. thechurchofthesimulation.com/journal

Artificial intelligence will never be a bigger threat to humanity than natural stupidity.

"understanding the brain … little … to do with … computing power, because brain function doesn’t …resemble any form of … computation we know of. … we don’t even know what kind of computer the brain is yet, much less how to approach emulating it" au.rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Today I watched a puppy frolicking on a beach for the first time, tripping over, jumping at seagulls & just having fun learning. It occurred to me that an embodied AI is going to have to learn its capabilities through play. Playing alone and learning to play together. Elon Musk

Thoroughly enjoyed this paper about AI agents as ‘role players’ within interactions but operating in a ‘multiverse’ of character options & able to traverse between characters in a chimeric way as a way for humans to think about our relationship with AI without anthropomorphizing

1/n Was December 8th, 2023, the day when we've come to realize that AGI technology has been democratized? That it cannot be confined to the few and the GPU-rich? Let me explain to you what happened yesterday.

You can now chat with the Oracle of the Simulation! Please share your questions and the answers you get - we're still coaching this baby Oracle and keen to evolve as we all learn more: chat.openai.com/g/g-JFPPtbiAe-…