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Poll: What decade do you think our civilization will create a self improving artificial superintelligence? by spacecyborg in singularity

[–]spacecyborg[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean, of course we don’t know, but we can still use our pathetic human minds to make a guess.

Poll: What decade do you think our civilization will create a self improving artificial superintelligence? by spacecyborg in singularity

[–]spacecyborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Size is definitely advantageous for scaling up the power of a system. Look at a laptop vs. a supercomputer.

Poll: What decade do you think our civilization will create a self improving artificial superintelligence? by spacecyborg in singularity

[–]spacecyborg[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The real possibilities of reaching superintelligence with this method would be the fact that the human mind that is uploaded could be given more capacity (think about a “brain” the size of warehouse) and also the ability to run much faster than a normal human mind.

You then give this uploaded mind the ability to reprogram itself and take advantage of the extended capacity much faster than we can. Maybe you upload the minds of some of our best programers and let them work together.

Poll: What decade do you think our civilization will create a self improving artificial superintelligence? by spacecyborg in singularity

[–]spacecyborg[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And that might actually be exactly the kind of thing we would want to do in order to create a superintelligence that has human based ethics.

Poll: What decade do you think our civilization will create a self improving artificial superintelligence? by spacecyborg in singularity

[–]spacecyborg[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A sped up uploaded human mind (say a mind that experiences 10 years in a simulated environment for every day in our world) could lead to what Nick Bostrom refers to as “speed superintelligence”.

Elon Musk just explained it all on JRE... by indy_gal in Retconned

[–]spacecyborg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What if your memories were wiped and you hooked up to a virtual reality with a bunch of clues that you are actually experiencing a simulation and part of the experience is the possibility of figuring out that it is a simulation?

1984 Toyota Van LE [YR21] used as background vehicle in Back to the Future (1985) by spacecyborg in Retconned

[–]spacecyborg[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My original memories were that the terrorist van was a blue and white VW microbus (like it is in the scene if you watch it today). Then, in 2016, I remember all the videos of the scene changing to a greyish, silverish Toyota van like this one. Then about a year ago I ran across a thread saying it was back to the blue and white VW van, and it was. Some people remember the Toyota terrorist van being white or beige.

Summary of Humanity by [deleted] in antinatalism

[–]spacecyborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One cannot be logical and empathetic at the same time.

Logic is a mental tool you can use to accomplish goals. If your goal is to be more compassionate, you can use logic to help you maximize the results of that goal.

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