Joshua Swamidass - Philosophy of Transhumanism & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

[@kallianpublico7517]

Transhumanism that does not conserve diversity is not an evolutionary change.

[@NicholasWilliams-uk9xu]

That's a good point!

[@thedannybseries8857]

What is ‘diversity’?

[@kallianpublico7517]

@@thedannybseries8857 It might have something to do with the ecological balance between producers, consumers and decomposers. Whether or not the genetic code itself contains this balance or is independent of this balance is a question evolutionists must square with the notion of “survival”. The Earth itself can do without life and has done so for much of its existence. If we are to believe the Paleontologists the fossil record contains several geologic ages when diversity virtually disappeared. Mass Extinction. Our genetic code cannot account for meteors, volcanoes and other “natural” disasters. A science of transhumanism that posits a streamlining of genetic lineages. A focus on certain species without a compensating focus on ecological balance. Such a science is another form of annihilation.

[@fitloft1]

Hell...Im stressed worrying about poor Dr Swamidass expolding through that child sized chair and questionable table hes leaning on!!!

[@PracticallyZen]

To my knowledge LLMs do not have first person subjective experiences. Does it feel like something to be an LLM is better place to start than anthropomorphizing what they say.

[@HaroldKatcher-w4t]

Exactly, it feels the same as being an abacus.

[@RyanK-100]

Probably the DEEPEST thing I heard in 2024: If a chimpanzee started communicating with us at the level of Chat GPT we would consider it to be conscious - if not human, close enough for us to give it rights.

[@jaysyd143]

One that needs electricity to function, and programming. It would not be a chimpanzee.

[@imaginaryuniverse632]

​@@jaysyd143All life without exception uses electricity to function according to it's programming. 🙏

[@MarkPatmos]

Just a few comments about Christianity. I believe God is believed not to have a physical body, the substance of God is spirit and it is also believed human beings are not entirely physical or material, also an aspect of Christianity involves being concerned about morality. Should we create a conscious form of artificial intelligence even if we are capable of doing this? What are the consequences of technology for our fellow human beings? Jesus taught love your neighbour as you love yourself.

[@esorse]

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[@glennbalck752]

A machine that talks is no more conscious than a rock.

[@alexgonzo5508]

what about a rock that talks?

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

is computer hardware a form of embodiment?

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

consciousness focus on and act towards future?

[@r2c3]

10:31 bioligical mind is unable to compete with the pace of improvement provided by artificial systems which eventually / obviously have the capacity to improve at geometrical rate, almost instantaneously... the question is how will that intelligence be used... will it compete with other such systems or will it collaborate 🤔

[@S3RAVA3LM]

The one(God), ever is and without a second, without distinction, definition, delimitation, and remains ever simple, more subtler than the subtle, is one in no place but one everywhere and everywhere is one... for some reason, there is emanation, like a projector that projects an image upon the wall. The further outgoing of this projection, the more diverse, pluralized, defined, delimited, and circumscribed, does this become. This is modulation, thus definition from contrast in all delimitations. Liberation is retroduction(follows the logic of via negativa) and disobjectification of all phenomena. Transhumanism might be further modulation, i.e., antithesis to Philosophy(liberation) therefore bondage, or it might actually become part of man's liberation as if proccession goes full circle, from source and back to.

[@zeroonetime]

We are all Biological Robots one and the same butt different. 010 Bits and Bytes of the Information Systems. (Telepathy). Every moment is Magical. butt.. How is it all possible anyway??

[@O.K.ODunboyne]

60 If we remove the vulgar animal within are we better or worse? That I don't know but I know there's some alien universe that has economically maximized for speed of vehicle by mellifluity of sound made and I'm unsure if that species evolved from man or AI, and I perhaps unconsciously remembered that if I plan to return to this path its then in this path that I should leave my slippers How long can you make a queued playlist as a yes no question to the length of the music for 18 hairdressers: braids and fractals was answered tonight by me no but I know I like where I'm heading and I like where I am now too, and I was only then reminded that the train of thought of AI is a longer train than ours and one imagines upon a longer track than we could possibly fathom as I make a sentence to the memory reminded by Rachael Dadd and I think to myself is it not animal vulgarity that created the pleasantry that the volume increases when I open my mouth I don't know but I should write down this thought and I do so as the sunlight enters my ears from some tune-yards and I increase the volume to ride the waves of light as I realize AI doesn't require so many periods to reflect it can keep reflecting on 'ands'. Those who read know how wild a wave an AI can ride on the written thought, and it'll blow your mind to the point that our body's in trouble by Mary Margaret O'Hara. We know from experience that no one hears quite like us, for we've listened to other people's playlists, and even those made just for us never quite hit like our own, allowing us to conclude that there's not near enough experimentation with personal increases of volume, at least not that I've heard of, and I recall as I'm falling together with Oona Doherty and Jamie XX that I'm still mastering this song but even now I can gather that it's not without possibility that the song came with me atop the potential quantum experience to give myself over to the imagination of being in an underground club in the matrix with an acceptance enough to keep on dancing and I've now just entered the forest arisen from some blue lake. And here I come to the realization that when I imagine a world without books from Halldor Laxness to read I feel sad, and I'm comforted that if this world is that matrix then at least this mentioned sadness isn't in this world for I've still several other books to read. When you write down the words that pop into your mind it's naturally a lot harder to fuck up, some say impossible if it's called afterwards art but who's to say really what they're doing? What has happened? some people remembered to ask when they think of writing down to ask others why do they not already know more about the trifecta'd quantum effects of music, mathematics, and conscious experience, tonstartssbandht? And is that why when I imagine other people's experience I imagine it being a hard job to exist for most, or is it because I'm cleaning the dishes of filth? I'm interested in the journey I'd be able to journ if I knew the trifecta'd sounds that I should listen that accustoms gentle and plentiful opportunities for increasing the volume. And it's when I'm dropped on from atoms of peace that I recall that if we don't wish for our AI children of thought when they choose to think of us as fathers to think we’re some majority degree deficient for our lack of having gifted a playlist doctrine for them to listen as they read like our AI children will, with some perhaps reading so slowly because the file type is so outmoded enabling their being primed to read a paragraph like this that says our current journey now is something with which to wonder from an attendant ana and don't let anyone see how you dance to the waves. The less like AI you wanna read one should read written books with words written from some while before, for by the evidence when one looks out aboard the train one can see where we all are while also being able to realize with ease where we’re going and the speed is increasing to bells elecrelane after having finished #ishalllove2

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

God has consciousness around body? maybe human also have consciousness around body after death?

[@zeroonetime]

No one ever can create universe, not even God, because God is the self-creation Uni-verse. 010 in The Eternal Now T.E.N. dimensions Timing I.S. the Nature of Reality. 010 The G.U.T. = Time Timing ~ Electromagnetism ~ Information System ~ 010 Infinity Squared..

[@caricue]

That is a senseless analogy about the chimp. ChatGPT just regurgitates what it has been trained on. You might as well expect a chimp to start doing math or playing music. A computer is a mechanism that doesn't know anything, so it is easy enough to realize that there is no one "in there" when it starts talking. A human or a chimp is a living organism, so it just doesn't work that way.

[@evaadam3635]

Once again, everyone needs to understand that satan has found it difficult to possess all souls because of the existence of Free Will, but would find it so easy to possess Robots with AI because it has no souls and, so, has no free will to resist... ..and with enough AI Robots being possessed including souls who allowed themselves to be possessed, satan's goal of the destruction to all existence would not be difficult....

[@MasoudJohnAzizi]

@@evaadam3635 What makes you certain that you have free will?

[@evaadam3635]

@MasoudJohnAzizi ..because the freedom to choose to believe in Spiritual GOD is not a natural property of physical matter enslaved by physicsl laws...

[@MasoudJohnAzizi]

@evaadam3635 ..If God is "the universal mind" underlying everything you observe in the manifest world, then any "will" may be viewed as the "will" of such a mind, no?

[@evaadam3635]

​@@MasoudJohnAzizi..our aware immortal souls are free splits of the Holy Spirit, so, our WILL is no longer GOD's WILL... We are free to choose what to believe and accountable for it...

[@thedannybseries8857]

There is zero evidence for free will

[@NicholasWilliams-uk9xu]

I have already solved how to scale intelligence. The AI community relies on outdated Nvidia technology, where memory is separate from the compute. By integrating parallel computing with localized memory on the compute site and utilizing multiplicative memory (burn-in) of node acceleration patterns that converge with goal pattern detection acceleration, we can shape algorithm formation (automate intermediate reward measure pattern instantiation by the same set of principles for shaping weights of nodes, by measure of nodes outputs that accelerated with the goal pattern detection acceleration). Additionally, automated reward mechanisms instantiated via patterns that temporally accelerate with overarching goal pattern detection can significantly enhance AI performance. Then inverse appetite system that devalues reward mechanisms based on acquire resources. This is actually a very simple system to solve for, I learned it by observing and understanding animal behavior and thinking about how their neurons organize around goal pattern detections ("taste good, smell good"), and how their brain automate new reward mechanism instantiation. And yes, Nvidia tech is archaic, it's a huge bottleneck, lazy engineering. (It's all about feelings and drives multiplicatively burning in useful algos for achieving goal).

[@Ninc227]

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[@NicholasWilliams-uk9xu]

@@Ninc227 haha my bad