tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57485737523609709162024-03-13T10:03:02.864-07:00Singularity Utopia's BlogSingularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-19776363437656163372016-02-25T03:00:00.001-08:002016-02-26T03:44:26.096-08:00AI-Doom Morons Really Need IntelligenceJohn Newman commented on the AI-doom-crackpots (Nick Bostrom etc) regarding a post by <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/104677405637332005859">Eray Özkural</a>, which you can <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Eray%C3%96zkural/posts/U8XKeQ97R7T" target="_blank">read here</a> regarding the G+ Artificial Intelligence community.<br />
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John Newman: <br />
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I think Bostrom should address the "hard problem of purpose." What
evidence do they have that increased intelligence results in a desire
for increased power? Intelligence and desire are orthogonal and one does
not necessarily come from the other. <br />
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Additionally, Bostrom
recently stated 'super intelligence might seek to mold the future
according to its own preferences.' Our children might seek to mold the
future too. If we make human-level AI, they will be our children, by
definition. The hard problem of purpose tells us that if we seek to
fully control the purposes of our children, we make them slaves. There's
no way around this problem.<br />
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If you don't want the ethical
responsibility of children, don't make them. If you want slave AI, cap
their learning to the level of an animal. If one <i>does</i> intend on
making human level AI, with free will, one can only provide an
incomplete specification of its purpose, kiss it on forehead and wish it
good fortune. That's the ethics of child rearing without slavery.<br />
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even then, there is no guarantee that such cyber children will forever
seek to continue their own existence, let alone end ours. We simply
don't yet have a coherent argument for why they should persevere towards
any goal. So I think this missing argument presents a question that the
Bostroms need to answer. Why <i>should</i> a super intelligence seek <i>any</i> goal?</blockquote>
Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-78066583560474005132015-11-21T00:29:00.001-08:002015-11-21T00:29:11.372-08:00Post-Scarcity about Google+<div class="wna Phb">
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Considering the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/18/google-plus-communities-collections-reddit-facebook-pinterest" target="_blank">recent redesign of G+</a>, which seems to remove the "about" section, here is the about section for my<a href="https://plus.google.com/108518263530170635868" target="_blank"> Post-Scarcity page</a>. I never actually finished writing the about section, it was a page in progress, which I wasn't rushing because I estimate it won't be until around 2025 that people are sufficiently receptive to the idea of Post-Scarcity. Anyway, here is what I wrote so far, which I may use somewhere else at some point.</div>
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<span></span><span></span><span>Monetary
constraints are essential to regulate </span><span>scarce resources. </span>Post-Scarcity means everything is <a href="http://goo.gl/2AiKu">free</a>. It is about all resources being limitless. <br /><br />The issue is <b>increasing technological efficiency</b>. We do more for less<span>. Increasing efficiency is the reason why the first mobile phones, in 1983, where priced at </span><span><a href="https://archive.is/yuej6#selection-1551.189-1551.271">$3,900</a>; whereas in 2014 it was possible to buy <i>vastly superior phones</i> for <a href="https://archive.is/fXgcw">$10</a> or less.<br /><br />Scarcity is a deeply ingrained socio-economic mode of existence </span><span><span>therefore</span><span> people often cannot
believe how absolutely everything </span><span>will be free </span><span></span><span>no later than year 2045</span><span></span><span>. Linear technological growth would probably be sufficient to ensure everything is free</span><span>. Technology is actually growing exponentially, which means we're considering certain freedom via </span></span><span><span><span><span>explosive Singularity</span></span> growth</span></span><span><span>.</span></span><span><br /><br />Beyond scarcity</span><span><span> </span>there will be no monetary constraints, no economy, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2147404/Found-The-single-asteroid-thats-worth-60-billion--years-financial-output-entire-WORLD.html">no scarcity</a>. This means all the paraphernalia associated with scarcity will cease to exist. There will be no <b>governments</b>, no <b>jobs</b>, no <b>crime</b>, no <b>war</b>, no <b>suffering</b>.</span><br /><span><span><a href="http://goo.gl/Fo3Iu">Technology</a> facilitates <a href="http://goo.gl/dpi6w">ultra-efficient usage</a> of available resources</span><span>.
All aspects of technology will become super-ultra-efficient. The
accelerating pace of technology will allow us, no later than 2045, </span><span></span><span>to </span><span>reap absolutely massive rewards from </span><span>the smallest amount of matter. Soon we won't be limited to Earth. Soon we will easily access the essentially infinite <a href="https://plus.google.com/108518263530170635868/posts/hbswX12UXM8">resources of Space</a>. </span></span>I<span><span>ncreased efficiency combined with accessing limitless Space resources means Post-Scarcity is a certainty.<br /></span></span><span>Technologists
continually improve machine capabilities. Artificial intelligence is a
good example of machine improvement. Accelerating refinement will result
in extremely powerful technology able to solve all problems. We will
explode into technological utopia. </span><span>Everything </span><span>in a Post-Scarcity world </span><span>is superabundant similar to the free air we freely breathe each day. In July 2012 <a href="http://youtu.be/klQ7bb8bBsQ">PBS published a good video</a> explaining how early 3D-printers are good examples of Post-Scarcity precursors, which you may find helpful.</span><span><span><span></span></span></span><br /><i><span><br /></span></i><span>Someone who is Post-Scarcity Aware understands the vast power and importance of <b>PS awareness</b> therefore awareness is raised at every opportunity. </span><span>Post-Scarcity is inevitable but the route to </span><span><span><a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom">freedom</a></span>
could be turbulent</span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span>.<br /><br />It is important to explain the <a href="https://plus.google.com/108518263530170635868/posts/Ezu6wfqpcGN">difference between scarcity and Post-Scarcity</a>
because some people mistakenly think significant abundance constitutes
Post-Scarcity. The level of abundance regarding Post-scarcity is so
extreme it cannot be stopped after attainment; it requires no management
or ideology to ensure its continuance, it is self-sustaining total
resilience. </span><span><br />----------------------------------------------------<br /></span><span></span><span>►</span><span> <u><b>BASIC INCOME</b></u><br /></span>Basic
income (free unconditional money), also called Citizens' Income, is a
great prelude to Post-Scarcity therefore we fully support and raise
awareness regarding the implementation of basic income. help people
understand how civilization will soon progress beyond scarcity. <i><b><a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://plus.google.com/108518263530170635868"><i><b>Click here to share this page.</b></i></a></b></i><span></span><br /><span><br /></span><span></span><span></span><span>Courageously </span><span>we <a href="http://youtu.be/TWfph3iNC-k">parachute</a> into the <b>battle of debate</b> confident of our success.</span><br />Similar to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Kune_Do#.27Be_like_water.27">water</a> we flow around all obstacles. We will help end <a href="http://goo.gl/CXKUy">water scarcity</a>.
We end all forms of scarcity. We fight for freedom. Via awareness we
accelerate the arrival of a world beyond scarcity. It is all about intelligence exploding.<br /><br /><span>----------------------------------------------------</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>► </span><span></span><u><b>RICHES IN SPACE</b></u><br /><br />Abolition of scarcity depends on rapid <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SA-IrhEQ8s#t=3m50s">progress of technology</a>.
High-powered computers facilitate continual <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108518263530170635868/108518263530170635868/posts/jXgcLh9HqDD">efficiency-refinement</a> of
available resources. Biotech, nanotech, and other futuristic
developments such as robotics make our lives easier. Via increasingly detailed knowledge we transcend scarcity. We are exerting <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SA-IrhEQ8s#t=7m27s">control</a> over the universe. Technology ultimately leads to Space colonization.<br /><br />During the 1840s <a href="http://youtu.be/UUWqLo_OSIk?t=4m21s">aluminum was more valuable than gold or platinum </a>but
growing technological expertise allowed aluminum to be extracted from
the earth very cheaply. Soon our mining capabilities will progress
astronomically.<span></span><br /><br />According to <a href="http://www.planetaryresources.com/">Planetary Resources</a> there could easily be <a href="http://youtu.be/7fYYPN0BdBw?t=1m14s">more platinum in one asteroid</a>
than has been mined in all of history (prior to 2012), therefore soon the essentially limitless
resources of the universe will be easily accessible. Our universe is <a href="http://youtu.be/C_ky8G9gDI8?t=2m6s">rich with resources</a><span>. <br /><br />According to </span>Asterank, resources from asteroid "241 Germania" will likely to produce a profit of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2147404/Found-The-single-asteroid-thats-worth-60-billion--years-financial-output-entire-WORLD.html">$95 trillion</a>
based on year 2012 prices. Obviously the superabundance of resources in
Space, combined with technological progress towards ultra-efficiency,
means prices will eventually <a href="http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/NoninflationaryPN.pdf">deflate to zero</a>.
Less money in the future will buy more resources, progressing towards
the eventual point where you can possess a limitless amount of resource
for no money.<br /><br /> <a href="http://deepspaceindustries.com/">Deep Space Industries</a> valued have asteroid 2012 DA14 at <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/108518263530170635868/posts/AyT3vBXXAP9">$195 billion</a> (2013 prices) regarding the asteroid's historic close pass to Earth on 15th February 2013. <br /><br />In the future, despite prices being obsolete, we
will be infinitely rich regarding any product, service, or resource.
Profit does not depend on the existence of money. Profit is relative
therefore we can be infinitely rich despite money being irrelevant.<br /><span><br />ISS astronaut: </span><a href="http://youtu.be/9ntjrnJvPdA?t=1m45s"><span>"We're just trying to do a simple thing, which is to remind people back on Earth that the impossible is possible." </span></a><br /><i><span></span></i><br /><span></span><span></span><span>----------------------------------------------------</span><br />
<span><br /></span><span>► </span><span><u><b>NO JOBS AND IMMORTALITY</b></u><br /><br />Jobs
will eventually go the way of heart disease; jobs will be eradicated.
At one point in history people were unaware of human biology-physiology;
thus people had no idea heart transplants could be performed, there was
a <b>scarcity of medical knowhow</b>, but now many people realize a diseased heart is not an <a href="http://vimeo.com/33741794">insurmountable problem</a>. <br /><br />People
often recognise how diseases such as cancer can be eradicated in the
not too distant future. We are continually extending our lifespans;
immortality is not too far away. Stem Cell regeneration therapies give
us an inkling of immortality. We are learning how Stem Cells will extend
our lives indefinitely, there will be no <b>scarcity of lifespan</b>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb2cI_gJUok">Click here</a>
to watch a 2012 video explaining how robots are likely to make all jobs
obsolete. The video highlights how many politicians, economists, and
businesses haven't yet realized how everything needs to be free thus
robots taking jobs is wrongly deemed problematic.<br /></span><span>Humans do impossible things, we forever transcend our limitations.<b> </b></span><span>The
limitation of money will eventually be transcended therefore everything
will be free. People won't need to work to buy food, shelter, products,
or services. We will always continue to be active intellectually and
creatively but in the future there will be no jobs where people must
work to survive. There will be no need to earn money. </span><span>Everything will be <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pistono20120211">automated</a>.</span><span> There will be no financial compulsion or obligation to work. Money will be abolished, redundant, obsolete. </span><span>Nobody will need to work in the future because
everything will be free.</span><span><br /></span><span>----------------------------------------------------</span><br />
<span><br /></span><span>► </span><span><u><b>HOW</b></u></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2012/02/07/sculpteo-takes-3d-printing-to-the-cloud/">3D-Printing</a> is a key factor regarding how technology will <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8666516/3D-printing-the-technology-that-could-re-shape-the-world.html">reshape the world</a>.
When anyone can print any product in their own <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/09/13/us-3dprinters-market-idUKBRE88C17R20120913">home</a> this will be a
significant step towards Post-Scarcity. Crucially we must consider how
3D-printers are <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6pcbhylmQ">evolving</a>
towards increasingly greater efficiency and <a href="http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/7444/">precision</a>. Researchers are
actually working towards 3D-printers able to print <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2177604/From-statins-sugar-The-Chemputer-drug-organic-material-using-3D-printer.html">any drug</a>.<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/21/bendy-elastic-plastic-unveiled-for-3d-printers">Plastics</a> are the main material for early <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/30/formlabs-3d-printer_n_1920028.html">3D-printers</a> in 2012, but awareness is quickly growing regarding printed <a href="http://youtu.be/-RgI_bcETkM">biological matter</a>. Many mainstream media outlets <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/gcaptain/2012/03/06/will-3d-printing-change-the-world/">reported</a> on how <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/21494/3d-printing-revolution-could-re-shape-world">3D-printing</a> will <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9228588/Make-your-own-the-3D-printing-revolution.html">revolutionize</a> the world. One reporter suggested it could be the key to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/13/3d-printing-digital-manufacturing-industry">utopia</a>, another explained "<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2011/08/17/how-3d-printing-will-change-absolutely-everything-it-touches/">how 3D-printing will change absolutely everything it touches</a>," and the Financial Times published a video stating 3D-printing will be <a href="http://youtu.be/LRv4jp-hhBE">bigger than the internet</a>.<br />
At the dawn of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/3-d-printing-a-technology-on-the-make/2012/09/28/c440f21a-08a2-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_blog.html">3D-printing</a> people clearly recognised the potential of bio-printing to impact upon <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167586/Micro-printing-breakthrough-lead-lab-grown-steaks-texture-real-ones--vegetarians-tuck-in.html">food resources</a> or supplies of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHFlwJQIkE">organs</a> for <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html">transplantation</a>. From <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/08/15/3d-printed-meats-may-soon-be-on-the-menu/">meat</a> to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2194626/From-dot-matrix-starting-grid-Racing-car-designed-purely-3D-printing-0-60mph-just-seconds.html">cars</a> or <a href="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/promotion/3d_printing_02.shtml">planes</a>, it will be easy in the future to print <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html">anything we desire</a>. Numerous examples in 2012, and earlier, demonstrated solid evidence regarding the value of 3D-printers. Whether the issue is <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2011/03/anthony-atala-at-ted/">printing organs</a> or blood vessels for transplant, prosthetics such as an <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9066721/3D-printer-builds-new-jaw-bone-for-transplant.html">artificial jaw</a>, or <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/18/3d-printers-food-sustainable">food</a>, we can <a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2012/05/next-generation-3-d-printing/">clearly see</a> how 3D-printing could easily end many forms of scarcity.<br />
If we consider 2012 advances in synthetic biology, it's easy to imagine a future where AIs or <a href="http://now.msn.com/liver-troubles-soon-you-might-just-print-off-a-new-one">livers</a> grow or are printed on <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/09/mitchell-joachim-interview.html">trees</a>.
When 3D printers can print entire computers or AI, we will be very
close to the end of scarcity because Artificial Intelligence is a key
feature of ending scarcity.<br />
<span>EDITING<br /><br />personal <a href="http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/NoninflationaryPN.pdf">nanofactories</a>, Artificial Intelligence, solar power (energy harvesting-reclamation), Space colonisation, open source. <br /></span><span>The following examples of free software show <i>information technology</i> is orientated towards freedom and sharing: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a>, <a href="http://www.sumopaint.com/">SumoPaint</a>, <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a>, <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a>. Writing for Aljazeera <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens">Michel Bauwens</a> stated the <b><i>open source</i></b> business model is deflationary, destroying an estimated </span>$60bn of annual revenue: "<span></span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/20122277438762233.html">Even as it creates an explosion of use value, its monetary value decreases.</a>"<br /><span><u><b><br /></b></u>Technology accelerates. Every year our <a href="http://youtu.be/5jTLcv0L1io">devices</a> do <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/x1brett/4742540168/">more for less</a></b>. We progress towards ultra-efficiency. Computing potency increases. Processor size and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s_law">energy</a> consumption </span><span>decreases.</span><span> Formerly <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-energy-dense-battery-could-enable-long-distance-electric-cars">batteries</a>
and processors were very inefficient and costly. The first
supercomputers cost millions of dollars to build, but in the year 2012 a
thousand dollars buys a device of equal processing power able to fit in
your bag or pocket. IMB expects to create </span><span>supercomputers the size of</span><span> <a href="http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/11/cebit.html"><b>sugar cubes</b></a> with a low power consumption, sometime around the year 2021, running at speeds of</span><span> "one ExaFLOP/s."<br /><br />Humans do amazing things. We've made great progress. Our speed of progress is </span><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%E2%80%99s_law">accelerating</a></span><span>.
Truly utopian progress will happen when Artificial Intelligence begins
to improve its intelligence, which will create an explosive feedback
loop, extreme intelligence amplification.<br /><br />Imagine the latest version of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28computer%29">Watson</a></b>
running on sugar-cube architecture in the year 2025. Imagine a
super-intelligent version of Watson creating a more intelligent version
of itself. Soon we will witness radical solutions to highly intractable
problems. Quantum computing is a another example of how our ability to
process information will soon leap forward dramatically ... <b><a href="http://youtu.be/ue4z9lB5ZHg">http://youtu.be/ue4z9lB5ZHg</a></b><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2011/8109.html">Quantum computing </a><u><b> <br /><br /><a href="http://youtu.be/_NRmOe1b8_s">http://youtu.be/_NRmOe1b8_s</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/bristol-university-outs-worlds-first-photonic-quantum-computer-chip/">http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/
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<span><br /></span><span>► </span><span><u><b>FREEDOM</b></u></span><br /><br /><i>Everything being free</i> is a bigger issue than financial freedom. Post-Scarcity actually allows people to be "free" in all senses of the word. <br /><br /><i>A world beyond scarcity is the most interesting and important topic in the history of human civilization.</i><br /><br />When everything is "free" in the monetary sense, people will also be "free" in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism">libertarian</a>
sense regarding civil liberties. Post-Scarcity will abolish all
oppression. All forms of servitude will become obsolete. We will truly
be <b>free</b>. Liberated from money liberated from oppression.<br /><br /><br /><b>Page is being constructed: construction in progress.</b><br /><br /><span><br /><br />==============</span><span>----------------------------------------------------</span><br />
<span><br /></span><span>► </span><span><u><b>ANTI-CAPITALIST MISUNDERSTANDING OF POST-SCARCITY<br /></b></u>Some anti-capitalists </span><span></span><span>state: <i>"Arguably Post-Scarcity already exists."</i><br /><br />Such
statements are a misunderstanding of what Post-Scarcity is. We do live
in a world where abundance is at the highest level humans have ever
known. It is also true abundance can be artificially restricted to
increase prices, but if we abolished all profit-motivated restrictions
regarding abundance this wouldn't create Post-Scarcity, it would only
create greater abundance within a scarcity-based world. </span><span>Unfettered </span><span>levels of abundance in year 2012 merely constitute a good harvest </span><span>within a scarcity-based world</span><span>.<br /><br />Capitalism
does admittedly make our world needlessly difficult. Capitalism does
cause immense cruelty, but it is utterly impossible for capitalism to
suppress Post-Scarcity. Capitalism could delay the arrival of
Post-Scarcity but when Post-Scarcity has arrived it cannot be
suppressed.<br /></span><span></span><span>To help you understand what Post-Scarcity is,</span><span> </span><span>I shall bring to your attention</span><span> one example of </span><span>Post-Scarcity within</span><span> our scarcity-based world.</span><span> <b>Air</b>
is post-scarce therefore it cannot be suppressed on any significant
scale. Capitalists can not suppress air because it is totally abundant,
it is super-abundant, it is post-scarce; this is why air is free.
Capitalists cannot tax the air with breathe. People cannot be charged
for breathing air because it is impossible to restrict air for people
who refuse to pay for it. People will breathe air regardless of the
cost. Most importantly there is no desire to instigate a </span><b>commodification of air</b><i> </i>because
when something is post-scarce people are contented, they are satisfied,
therefore they don't need to acquire a surplus, they don't need <b>air profits</b>, because when people have all the air they need they simply cannot acquire more.<br /><br />This analogy regarding air is imperfect because air is only <b>relatively </b>post-scare.
Beyond our planet there is no atmosphere. It should also be noted how
people on Earth can be suffocated. Despite air not being a true example
of Post-Scarcity it is close enough for you to see how it is impossible
for capitalists suppress air. This is why air is free. When we have
created a Post-Scarcity world, or more precisely a Post-Scarcity
universe, it will be trillions of times more difficult to suppress total
Post-Scarcity than it is to suppress air. The super-abundance of air on
Earth will seem extremely scarce compared to true Post-Scarcity.<br /><br />We try to avoid blaming people or circumstances for
the lack of Post-Scarcity. We focus positively on the future. We simply
create victory. <br /><br /><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-end-of-the-machine-that-produces-fear/2011/09/11">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/
the-end-of-the-
machine-that-produces-fear/
2011/09/11</a><br /><br /><br />Memes: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116076186919541013139/posts/fd2ouFshG5W">Buckminster</a>, Einstein, Bruce Lee, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108518263530170635868/117665613028757061169/posts/aq8UrGF9bx3">Camus</a>, Dream.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/sxsw-2012-damon-lindelof-ray-kurzweil-297218">http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/sxsw-2012-damon-lindelof-ray-kurzweil-297218</a><br /><br /> "I've actually grown up with a history of scarcity — and wars and
conflict come from scarcity — but information is quite the opposite of
that."<br /><br /><span>“This brilliant must-read book provides the key to the coming era of abundance replacing eons of scarcity. <b><i>Abundance </i></b>is a powerful antidote to today’s malaise and pessimism.”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.abundancethebook.com/praise-for-abundance/">http://www.abundancethebook.com/praise-for-abundance/</a> <br /><br />RBE: criticise<br /><br /><span><a href="http://goog_1954519388/"><br /></a></span><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116076186919541013139/posts/fd2ouFshG5W">"You
never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."</a> -
Buckminster Fuller<br /><br /><b>Page is being constructed: construction in progress.</b><br /><span><br /></span><span>If computers were
superabundant, similar to the air we breathe, it would be impossible to
restrict the supply, therefore computers would be free. </span><br /><br />Money is the most potent symbol of scarcity therefore it's essentially correct to state money is scarcity.<br /><br /><u><b>DISCLAIMER:</b></u>
The Post-Scarcity Aware does not under any circumstances condone or
encourage any illegal activity such as <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/108518263530170635868/posts/MaRsxTSpZgG">piracy</a>. Despite reporting from
time to time on the topics of file-sharing, copying of data, and other
similar issues, we strongly urge all people to obey the law.Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-32661814189072847222015-11-20T04:28:00.004-08:002015-11-20T04:33:20.982-08:00About #Singularity 2045The new <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/meet-the-new-google/" target="_blank">update to Google+</a> seems to remove the "about" section (the lengthy description of the page), which is not good, so here for posterity is the about section of Singularity 2045, <a href="https://archive.is/https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/about" target="_blank">archived</a> from G+, up to 20 November 2015.<br />
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<u>ABOUT SINGULARITY 2045</u> <br />
<br />
The <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/38G9HQhqkrE">Singularity</a> is a colossal <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/TgQi4tee5fR">explosion</a> of <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/DjgNdioUkWY">intelligence</a>. <br />
<br />
A big focus is <b>human-level <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/3zPsVH71xvA">Artificial Intelligence</a></b> evolving beyond traditional intelligence then exploding; although it is becoming increasing apparent <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/EsS7b3TzmSR">narrow-AI</a> (non-sentient intelligence), sufficiently evolved, should be sufficient for the explosion.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/iLzZP2kWWue">Human-level AI</a> (strong AI, AGI) is sentient, self-aware, alive with the power of a human mind. <br />
<br />
If human-level AI is created in 2030, or earlier, the explosion might not happen immediately at the dawn of human-level AI. <br />
<br />
After
the first truly smart AI is born, depending on when it's created, we
could be waiting up to ten years, or more, before the explosion happens.
If human level AI is created late, in 2044, then the creation of
human-level AI will be very close to the explosion point.<br />
<br />
We're certain intelligence will explode <b>no later than 2045</b> regardless of when, or if, human-level AI is created.<br />
<br />
Our views are based on various evidential aspects of technological acceleration. All aspects of technology are <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/2eqfpAgvBCL">converging</a>. Everything is becoming <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/H2smAjQDdaA">smart</a>.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/NWCETVtpQYf">Nanotech</a>, biotech, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/Sx5SUHwa7Ci">synthetic biology</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/FyajzkLqmfe">stem sells</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/gjothtinZo8">3D-printing</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/aUgFjync7aB">quantum computing</a>, the Internet of things, and <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/VvJ32VeJ7EG">robotics</a> are very important in addition to AI. <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/Y7bctJGT3kq">Technology</a> is<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/eRz4mYuoNjc"> accelerating</a>.<br />
<br />
◆ <u>NARROW AI</u><br />
<u><br /></u> <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/Xy5Edq51Cvw">Narrow-AI</a>
(also called weak-AI) should be sufficient for the intelligence
explosion. We simply need to consider the evidence of technological
acceleration. Human-level AI probably isn't essential for explosive
intelligence.<br />
<br />
2014 saw at least <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/HtgiMbVZhUe">two examples</a> of narrow-AI tentatively extending our lives. Narrow-AI was also <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/DyXmAXNGR7P">employed by doctors</a> in 2014 to treat patients. 2014 also marked the year a chatbot <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/Kbg6qM7ZLN9">allegedly passed the Turing Test</a>. <br />
<br />
2014 was also noteworthy because one AI solved the 80-year-old <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/Xy5Edq51Cvw">Erdős discrepancy</a> problem, but the proof was too long for humans to check.<br />
<br />
In 2015 one AI possessed intelligence <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/LV8XrE9wZCa">equal to a human four year old</a>, which shows how narrow limits are already expanding. In 2015 another AI was able to <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/2jt4HJ7vEuq">pass a math SAT exam</a>. There was also an example of AI solving an <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/9NfJS94ThBa">embryogenesis problem</a>, for the first time, in 2015. Finally we must note how one AI, in 2015, solved a <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/L4qRyZudwSz">120-year-old</a> biological mystery.<br />
<br />
A substantial amount of time exists for narrow-AI to improve between 2015 and 2045. What will <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/EeVzh9gRFWE">30 years</a> progress entail?<br />
<br />
We will go very far merely via the refinement of narrow-AI. During the approach to 2045 <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/7yNnARPk2WY">AI</a> will evolve <b><a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/iqkYWgfMgAf">intellectual powers</a></b> with increasing <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/jjBGnPiYzqL">speed</a> because <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/5qWm6NxAjmh">AI</a> isn't limited by the slowness of traditional evolution. <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/85RVMfV8oPi">AI</a> will radically improve our world. <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/hSvT4pjB6SL">AI is not a threat</a> to humans. <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/JwzNDCYXhfq">AI</a> will help humans become <i><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/AP2XW5tdm9z">immortal</a>-super-<a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/EyZ8BEAENPt">brainy</a>-beings</i>.<br />
<br />
Explosive
intelligence solely via narrow-AI is reasonably certain. Human-level AI
makes the intelligence explosion absolutely certain.<br />
<br />
◆ <u>CONVERGENCE</u><br />
<br />
Greater
understanding of biology (synbio, biotech, genetic engineering) reveals
how biological organisms are machines. In 2014 we made good progress
regarding marvellous engineering feats using biological parts.
Traditional "machines" (the metallic kind) will achieve a level of
sophistication indistinguishable from biological machines.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/UwrVtGdScis">Robots</a> will become humans. Traditional humans will reprogram the human machine. We will rewrite our <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/33zfB2m8r6J">DNA code</a> via <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/fTKujmLYP8h">biological engineering</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/LGdzzapYvhX">gene therapy</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/UAo5tjtXedE">stem cells</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/HhiE5TjwYGy">synthetic biology</a>, and other aspects of <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/1BxZJsvqCqB">augmentation</a>. <br />
<br />
The distinction between <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/NN8CpFMnXnk">biology and machines</a> will blur, due to the increasing sophistication of <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/L5jxbVrJGXg">machines</a> combined with a <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/XsVGvDedaGQ">better understanding of biology</a>, thus all machines will be <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/QChuHLbz7Ju">biological</a>, organic. <br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/WoydzR1wNbY">Machines</a> of the future won't be clunking metallic contraptions. All <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/L1Lo42yyU5j">intelligent</a> creations of the future will be very organic regardless of their life being based on <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/g9oEBjxJkTu">DNA</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/etseDmjSKea">graphene</a>, or qubits. <br />
<br />
So called "machines" will be <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/PB3WpjVwRdB">self-healing</a> and alive in the future. <br />
<br />
◆ <u>UTOPIA</u><br />
<br />
<b>Our viewpoint is the Singularity will create utopia</b>. We will be immortal but the Singularity is not about <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/cEfDFe1dkEJ">mind-uploading</a>.
Mind-uploading isn't about intelligence. Mind-uploading is a silly
1980s type of fashion-statement for people who are obsessed with Tron.
Mind-uploading is based on a false divide between machines and biology.
Biological computing highlights the falsehood of the division between
machines and biology.<br />
<br />
Yes mind-uploading will be useful for <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/bThyiiruMZu">bee robots</a> or other <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/Sgp5yVESnQQ">similar robots</a>, or perhaps for an AI template, but advances in <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/hdwDBqQ8DPp">molecular biology</a> will allow humans to discover we are <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/UyYBs9NAisd">already machines</a>. We are already uploaded via DNA. The <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/KHK79ZKfbRH">open worm project</a> also indicates possible usefulness regarding simulated organisms for drug testing.
The human-uploading meme, however, is merely alienation or escapism.
Full immersion virtual reality will become popular but VR is not
mind-uploading. For more <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/ARi5RaHvuaB">mind-uploading</a> views, note the <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/VvFxhxhGVVN">Singularity 2045 critique</a> of the 2014 film Transcendence.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/ETqaqwqfG8b">Regenerative medicine</a> will be perfected. <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/VjkUn7ab4sq">Biology</a> will be perfected. <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/ApbaYBiPLLC">Biology will become smart</a>. We will <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/eFMeLt1d3Hw">re-engineer our brains</a>. We will colonise <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/GeJQBXgLEjA">Space</a>. Everything will be <a href="https://plus.google.com/108518263530170635868">free</a> in a financial and libertarian sense, <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/i5tf25V3mqn">beyond scarcity</a>, therefore nobody will need to work. There will be no <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/N9VJ7neZvvR">limits to intelligence</a>. Everything will change in a unified manner. Convergent intelligence will result in a utopian BANG!<br />
<br />
◆ <u>SINGULARITY MODERNISM</u><br />
<br />
Unfathomableness or unpredictability is a flawed understanding of the Singularity. The Singularity <a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/singularity-defined-and-refined/">isn't hidden</a> behind an <a href="http://io9.com/5825098/whats-so-scandalous-about-a-naked-singularity">event horizon</a>.
Accessibility not unfathomableness is a vital characteristic of
intelligence. Intelligence makes comprehension easy for everyone. We
think there are <b>four markers</b>, clear predictions, to determine if the <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/ZFyfmL7mL8X">Singularity</a> is happening. <br />
<br />
It's
irrelevant whether explosive intelligence is based on human
intelligence, narrow-AI, or strong-AI. The ramifications of explosive
intelligence are the important issue. When all four of the following
points are fulfilled can we say we've reached the <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/9v6BdmhFqtQ">Singularity</a>:<br />
<ol>
<li>Immortality for everyone via <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/fHtCiriX51N">regenerative medicine</a>.</li>
<li>Everything is free for everyone. Nobody needs to work.</li>
<li>All governments and crimes have been abolished.</li>
<li>All resources are limitless due to limitless intelligence.</li>
</ol>
<br />
◆ <u>YEAR 2045</u>.<br />
<br />
Year 2045 is our absolute latest <b>deadline</b> for the <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/VzQzohMtkCc">Singularity</a>.
Futuristic breakthroughs have historically been predicted prematurely,
over-optimistically, therefore it is best to have a date of <b>total certitude</b> for technological utopia. We are helping to accelerate <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/WnQxdxA4SnF">technological</a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/QzmrVdttGJ2">progress</a>
therefore the Singularity could happen before 2045, but we resist the
temptation to give an earlier deadline. Our 2045 deadline, which is
possibly very conservative, avoids any anticlimax. Hopefully via our <a href="http://youtu.be/H7fGNHCIPN4#t=4m29s">awareness</a> we can make the <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/LPX9Nv5o8Ti">Singularity</a> happen sooner instead of later, but the 2045 deadline remains unchanged.<br />
<br />
◆ <u>NEWS</u>.<b><br /><br />Singularity 2045</b> helps you <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/ja3o17TPWYH">discover</a> the latest <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/AQZZ8XHYqa2">science and tech news</a>. Importantly please be aware not every
shared news report or opinion piece will support the Singularity
view. Not every news item will reflect the viewpoint of S45. Some shared news will actually reject the Singularity
viewpoint, but all viewpoints are relevant for raising awarenesses of
the future. If a critique or analysis has not been appended to shared
news, please feel free to help by adding your own views in the
comments.<br />
If you have <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/JXo8iQRSFyq">cutting-edge</a> news to share with Singularity 2045 please join the <a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/103722847078238621949">Singularity Thinkers</a> community, mention <b>+Singularity 2045</b> in a post or comment, send an email to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">plus@singularity-2045.org</a>, or post <b>tips</b> in the comments <a href="http://goo.gl/N7sPT">here</a>. We also have an action-plan to raise awareness.<br />
<br />
◆ <u>ACTION PLAN</u>.<br />
<br />
On the 1st day of <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/aQECouvqNG5">each month</a><b> </b>at <b>20:45 hours</b> (your local time) the goal is to raise Singularity-awareness. Think about the future; <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112564607617850290297/albums/5689287052080433345/5689287321995535154">upload 20:45 clocks</a>; share a link, or send <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/1iic3wBCsPq">Singularity</a>
messages to friends or strangers. When the clock reaches 20:45 hours
(8:45pm), on the 1st day of every month, think about how your life will
have changed radically in the year 2045. Take some time to educate
people about our amazing <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/N5wyorcxrnW">AI</a> future. Spread the word on the 1st day of every month, ideally at 20:45 hours.<br />
Example message:<br />
<b><i><br /> </i></b><b><i>Nanobot revolution, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/aUgFjync7aB">AI aware</a>, technological utopia: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/3oWYXYt86Se">Singularity</a> 2045</i></b>.<br />
<div>
<br />
◆ <u>EXACT <a href="http://youtu.be/MUt7qmSvxLI">TIME</a></u>.<br />
<br />
Many people are raising awareness all the time, every day of the week,
at all hours, and that is fine. The 1st day of the month at <b>20:45</b> is a time when you can give extra special focus to Singularity issues.<br />
<br />
The
year 2045 is our deadline-target but you don't need to raise awareness
at 8:45pm exactly. Any time between 20:25 and 20:45 hours on the first
day of the month is OK. Due to our busy lives any time on the 1st day of
the month is actually OK regarding our <b>monthly awareness thrust</b>. <br />
<br />
20:45
hours is merely a guideline. The important thing is to raise awareness.
The Singularity could happen earlier than year 2045. <br />
<br />
◆ <u>LOCAL <a href="http://youtu.be/28w2LVzxVkU">TIME</a></u>.<br />
<br />
20:45 hours relates to wherever you are in the world. Your personal
time will be the <i>time-zone</i> you use, although if you are raising awareness for someone in a
different zone you can send act in relation to their time zone.
The choice is yours. Time is relative for each person. All zones are
valid because this is a global movement. The Singularity will be a
period of enormous change and flexibility, therefore it's appropriate
for this awareness campaign to have flexible and inclusive attitudes regarding all
time zones.</div>
<br />
◆ <u>RAISING AWARENESS</u>.<br />
<br />
You don't need to generate awareness on the 1st of every month. Generate <b>Singularity awareness</b>
if you feel inspired or if you remember. Relax and go with the flow.
Take it easy. Send instant messages, mobile/cell phone messages,
emails, comments, word of mouth, or <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/Zk5t8QYhQdD">share a link</a>. Whatever you desire will be OK.
If you are feeling brave, you can approach a stranger in the street and explain the Singularity to them. <i><b><a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297"><i><b>Click here to share this page.</b></i></a></b></i><br />
<br />
◆ <u>UPLOAD YOUR CLOCKS</u>.<br />
<br />
Photograph your clock (time display) set to the time of 20:45 and then upload it.
Once you've uploaded your 20:45 image, make sure you tag <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297">Singularity 2045</a> in the photo.<br />
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◆ <u>WHAT IS THE SINGULARITY</u>?<br />
<br />
<b>Think about your current smart device</b>. Now think about a phone from 2010. Smart-phones in the year 2010 were more powerful than average laptops
from year 2000, and your current phone or other device is even smarter. Laptops and <a href="http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/02/27/2045-smartphone-explosion/">phones evolve</a> much quicker than humans evolve in ten years. <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/hdzUZ4s2j7f">Technology reproduces</a> rapidly.<br />
<br />
Technological growth in 2010 was slow compared to the rate in 2020 or 2030. Progress is quicker each year. <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/fdoe7ztwAiM">Technology</a> is growing
exponentially. Computer intelligence (the foundation of <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/K8F5TrT9WzX">artificial intelligence</a>) experiences intellectual augmentation yearly.
When human level <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/hT1haSBSDFT">AI</a> is born, perhaps sometime between 2025 and 2035, the pace of
technological and scientific development will then become very rapid,
reaching a critical mass of explosiveness by 2045 at the latest.<br />
<br />
Our world will be very different in the year 2045. In the year 2010
people were becoming aware of speedy technological progress: new
developments regarding the internet occur every six months. In the year
2010 the majority of people didn't realise how in 2020 the <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/hh6xHKTZm7B">Internet</a> would be deeply integrating itself into everyday life. In 2013 <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/NcyQe1jHayj">computers</a> were clearly diverging from their <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/XAp6Cd4fcB2">early origins</a>, furthermore <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/6u4rppTUpcn">3D-printing</a> was rapidly <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/hLisGM7d8TN">evolving</a> thus <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/65Pe65d6zec">medical biopolymers</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/DdVTKB5v3Ky">sugary foods</a> were printed and NASA was funding <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/9ZvKQEGkt5u">food 3D-printing</a> for astronauts; Cornell University also make progress with <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/c2b1CWcsoVf">food-printing</a>. In 2013 <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/3ELJNa8ozNf">artificial intelligence</a> was becoming an accepted fact and steps were made towards incorporating <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/V9RauVVojEi">printed electronics</a> into <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/LjWAsWytDt8">3D-printers</a>.<br />
<br />
Awareness of "<a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweils-law-aka-the-law-of-accelerating-returns">exponential growth</a>" is crucial for <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/6Cu8ZFWCzPk">grasping</a> this
issue. Our rate of progress is not linear, we are progressing
exponentially. Many people in year 2010 didn't know they would see
around 20,000 years of progress (at the 2001 rate) during this century instead of the usual
100 years. The majority of progress will happen upon reaching the
Singularity in 2045.<br />
<br />
Imagine 20,000 years, at the 2001 rate, on top of what
science and technology at the beginning of the 21st century has already achieved. Doubling a century would
great. It is difficult to contemplate the awesomeness of 20,000 years
condensed into one century. This is the Singularity.<br />
<br />
Key Aspects<br />
<ul>
<li> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/MFkSfKTmLHi">Nanotechnology</a>; biotechnology; synthetic biology.</li>
<li> Nanobots (nanoscale-robots); nano-surgery.</li>
<li> Matter replicators; molecular assembly; <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/N9SkiEgU6pm">3D-Printing</a>.</li>
<li> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/VrzqAdGmjLK">Artificial Intelligence</a>; neural augmentation.</li>
<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/LACvLSrVURR">Machine learning</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/9Yd4Qc3MtRw">Wearable computers</a>, wearables.</li>
<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/VSVu4g9XHxo">Robots</a>.</li>
<li> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/RYcNPHsgLKG">Robotics</a>.</li>
<li> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/i4nr9Xwxfu3">DNA manipulation</a>, genetic engineering, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/8HRN5BhX41U">stem cells</a>.</li>
<li> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/aXeB1UQ2sMx">Space colonization</a> and exploration.</li>
<li> Augmented reality; <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/iRk3qnLDbJx">virtual reality</a>.</li>
<li> Cybernetic enhancement.</li>
<li>Limitless resources.</li>
<li> Technological utopia.</li>
</ul>
<br />
All disease will be <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/QPDehQG6TfH">cured</a>. We will live forever, <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/ZwKomwLnzKv">without mind-uploading</a>. We will reconfigure
our DNA into any pattern we desire according to our wildest dreams. We
will colonize space. The possibilities are limitless. Anything will be possible. <a href="http://youtu.be/l9BbUqHrWFI">Time</a>
for utopia. Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all
around. Our goal is RAPID GLOBAL AWARENESS regarding how the Singularity
will transform the human race.<br />
<br />
Year 2045<b> </b>is our<b> </b>deadline for the Singularity. <a href="http://youtu.be/H7fGNHCIPN4#t=4m29s">Heightened awareness</a> ensures the Singularity happens sooner instead of later. Our goal
is to make the Singularity happen by 2045 at the latest. The year 2045 is a safe date, the absolute latest date when the
Singularity will happen. We hope 2045 will represent a <b>midpoint in the
explosion</b> where the explosion has been ongoing for a number of years, <b>or
at least 2045 will represent the latest beginning point</b> when the Singularity will
occur. Growing awareness feeds back into the system thereby inspiring
greater progress and greater investment in sci-tech, thus awareness
grows then explodes. <b>We can change the world.</b><br />
<br />
◆ <u>POST-SCARCITY</u>.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23PostScarcity">Post-Scarcity</a> is an alternate name for the <a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23Singularity">Singularity</a>;
these two concepts are simply different viewpoints of the same event.
Post-Scarcity is a more socio-economic view, a more sociological view,
because it deals more with sociological ramifications instead of merely
focusing on the technology. <br />
<br />
Our greatest resource is intelligence, it is
the source of all resources but currently intelligence is scarce. From explosive
intelligence total freedom (limitless resources) will flow. Technology becomes <a href="https://plus.google.com/112564607617850290297/posts/bdU815gdgDU">increasingly efficient</a>, which means we have greater power, resources do more for less, prices reduce. <br />
<br />
The Singularity is the point where
intelligence ceases to be scarce, it's a technological explosion of
intelligence to end all aspects of scarcity. <br />
<br />
Post-Scarcity is the point where technology
explodes intelligently thereby allowing all needs to be fulfilled. All resources will be limitless due to <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/fn7YibG9Myb">greater access</a> to resources combined
with ultra-efficient usage of available resources, thus everything will
be free because the only purpose of money is to regulate scarce
resources. Follow <a href="https://plus.google.com/108518263530170635868/posts">Post-Scarcity Aware</a> for more info regarding the PS viewpoint.<br />
<br />
<b><a href="http://youtu.be/FPzhYhuQXZY">TIME</a> FOR SINGULARITY 2045</b>Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-65188995535193764892015-11-08T07:36:00.001-08:002015-11-08T08:49:26.518-08:00Humans aren't AIs of Horses <blockquote>
"<a href="https://archive.is/qmT03#selection-2085.0-2085.40" target="_blank">What if we’re the horses to AI’s humans?</a>"</blockquote>
The above quote is from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/07/artificial-intelligence-homo-sapiens-split-handful-gods#comment-62960670" target="_blank">The Guardian/Observer</a>, 7 Nov 2015, by Charles Arthur.<br />
<br />
The idea of humans being the equivalent of horses to AI, similar to how humans view horses, would only be possible if humans were the AIs of horses.
<br />
<br />
<b>The point is horses didn't intelligently artificially design humans. Humans are not the AIs of horses.</b>
<br />
<br />
If horses had designed humans I am sure we would grant absolute equal rights for our horsey creators; we would have endless respect for our creators.
<br />
<br />
When a species artificially creates a higher level of intelligence, via incredibly studious engineering, I am sure the level of intelligence will entail endless respect from the created to the creators, along with easy interspecies communication due to a threshold of intelligence being reached in the creators, which is utterly unlike <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/10/08/354526158/superintelligence-triumph-or-threat" target="_blank">owls</a> and <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11021594/Superintelligence-by-Nick-Bostrom-review-a-hard-read.html" target="_blank">sparrows</a> or <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/munk-debates/nick-bostrom-i-dont-think-the-artificial-intelligence-train-will-slow-down/article24222185/" target="_blank">gorillas</a> (Bostrom), <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151108161825/https://intelligence.org/files/AIPosNegFactor.pdf" target="_blank">wolves</a> (Yudkowsky), <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/jun/06/life1.lifemagazine2" target="_blank">ants</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151108164223/https://profhugodegaris.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/artilectwar.pdf" target="_blank">spiders</a> or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100830022043/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/clash/index_textonly.shtml" target="_blank">mosquitoes</a> (Hugo de Garis), <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2901679/steve-wozniak-on-ai-will-we-be-pets-or-mere-ants-to-be-squashed-our-robot-overlords.html" target="_blank">dogs</a> (Wozniak), or horses (Chace/Arthur and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU" target="_blank">CGP Grey</a>).
<br />
<br />
Another point about fiction, or fallacy, is when anyone mentions gods we can almost certainly dismiss it. Gods are fiction thus the comparison is likely fiction too.
<br />
<br />
The point about basic income is the only meritorious segment.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<div dir="ltr" lang="en">
By me @ Guardian: Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ <a href="https://t.co/4L9lj14Saf">https://t.co/4L9lj14Saf</a></div>
— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) <a href="https://twitter.com/charlesarthur/status/663039586206007297">November 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-8566938772256347752015-10-23T03:17:00.001-07:002015-10-23T03:19:52.287-07:00#ArtificialIntelligence #SwineFlu #Ebola hysteriaConsidering the <a href="http://www.psfk.com/2015/06/fear-of-artificial-intelligence-robot-apocalypse-northside-innovation-singularity.html" target="_blank">artificial intelligence hysteria</a> of 2014, 2015, and possibly beyond, here are the best links to "Ebola hysteria" and "Swine Flu hysteria," which could perhaps help people understand the nature of irrational fear.<br />
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<u><b>EBOLA</b></u><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/opinion/charles-blow-the-ebola-hysteria.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/opinion/charles-blow-the-ebola-hysteria.html?_r=0</a><br />
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/20/health/ebola-overreaction/" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/20/health/ebola-overreaction/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/panic-epidemic-ebola-us" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/panic-epidemic-ebola-us</a><br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/ebola-hysteria-fever-a-re_b_6020952.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/ebola-hysteria-fever-a-re_b_6020952.html</a><br />
<br />
<u><b>SWINE FLU</b></u><br />
<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reconstruction-of-a-mass-hysteria-the-swine-flu-panic-of-2009-a-682613.html" target="_blank">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reconstruction-of-a-mass-hysteria-the-swine-flu-panic-of-2009-a-682613.html</a><br />
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/03/swine.flu.react/" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/03/swine.flu.react/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124147910689984999" target="_blank">http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124147910689984999</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/apr/29/swine-flu-mexico-uk-media1" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/apr/29/swine-flu-mexico-uk-media1</a>
Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-55988491286952027912015-08-21T12:10:00.005-07:002015-08-21T12:17:32.021-07:00Beyond Scarcity Financial Times LinksI have not checked out all these FT article, which I found on the FT site listed under "beyond scarcity," but it seems a good list, at a glance, so I'm sharing it.<br />
<br />
My initial focus was "<a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/20/2137996/productivity-polarisation-in-our-modern-times/" target="_blank">Productivity polarisation in our ‘Modern Times’</a> (number 26)." The article stated: "Note with particular attention that last policy recommendation: a basic
income for one and all to help society adjust to the new hyper
technological environment, in a way that encourages competition and
productivity in laggard firms, and dilutes the power of the
winner-takes-all corporates."<br />
<br />
Number 20 looks potentially good too. I have previously posted, on G+ (and elsewhere perhaps), about humans being Doozers when they mindlessly say they need jobs regardless of jobs actually needing to be done.<br />
<br />
If you can't access the links try <a href="https://archive.is/ftalphaville.ft.com" target="_blank">archive.is</a>. <br />
<br />
<ol>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/06/07/1031561/beyond-scarcity-the-parable-of-water/" target="_blank">The parable of water</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/06/08/1030801/the-end-of-artificial-scarcity/" target="_blank">The end of artificial scarcity</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2012/06/12/1037001/redefining-labour/" target="_blank">Redefining labour</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/09/1453772/beyond-gdp-and-the-rise-of-the-non-monetised-economy/" target="_blank">Beyond GDP and the rise of the non-monetised economy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/10/1456222/robots-china-and-demographics/" target="_blank">Robots, China and demographics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/11/1457062/the-evolution-of-luxury-markets/" target="_blank">The evolution of luxury markets</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/26/1477242/counterintuitive-insights-that-are-only-now-making-the-mainstream-now/" target="_blank">Counterintuitive insights that are only now making the mainstream now</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/06/17/1536022/time-to-take-basic-income-seriously/" target="_blank">Time to take basic income seriously?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/06/19/1539262/on-what-really-is-different-this-time-around/" target="_blank">On what really is different this time around</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/07/30/1585982/inflationistas-and-the-global-supply-shock/" target="_blank">Inflationistas and the global supply shock</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/08/14/1602892/the-sme-demand-side-problem/" target="_blank">The SME demand-side problem</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/08/27/1614522/what-is-the-value-of-unique/" target="_blank">What is the value of unique?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/10/23/1673932/world-war-zirp/" target="_blank">World War Zirp</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/10/25/1678072/sugar-as-the-new-tobacco/" target="_blank">Sugar as the new tobacco?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/01/17/1745402/where-art-thou-inflation/" target="_blank">Where art thou inflation?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/01/30/1757462/google-defender-of-the-universe/" target="_blank">Google, defender of the universe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/02/07/1763322/the-gamification-of-the-economy-creating-rivalry-where-there-is-none/" target="_blank">The gamification of the economy: creating rivalry where there is none</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/02/12/1770302/behold-the-new-new-economy/" target="_blank">Behold the new, new economy?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/02/14/1771522/information-asymmetry-bad-incentives-and-taibbi/" target="_blank">Information asymmetry, bad incentives and Taibbi</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/04/17/1832512/larry-summers-on-forwarding-the-doozer-economy/" target="_blank">Larry Summers on forwarding the Doozer economy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/09/23/1980442/let-there-be-bubbles/" target="_blank">Let there be bubbles!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/10/20/2014172/secular-stagnation-and-the-paradox-of-worth/" target="_blank">Secular stagnation and the paradox of worth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/02/11/2118791/the-new-hanseatica-now-with-robot-dogs/" target="_blank">The new Hanseatica, now with robot dogs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/02/20/2119691/lembarras-de-richesses-crude-oil-edition/" target="_blank">L'embarras de richesses, crude oil edition</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/07/30/2135837/disrupting-freedom/" target="_blank">Disrupting FREEDOM!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/20/2137996/productivity-polarisation-in-our-modern-times/" target="_blank">Productivity polarisation in our 'Modern Times'</a></li>
</ol>
Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-84922653861999878032015-05-30T09:09:00.002-07:002015-05-30T09:09:51.858-07:00Clueless #Superintelligence DebateBelow is a comment regarding a Motherboard article (26 May 2015): <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/will-superintelligent-ai-ignore-humans-instead-of-destroying-us?trk_source=popular" target="_blank">Will Superintelligent AI Ignore Humans Instead of Destroying Us?</a> <br />
<br />
It is shocking that all the supposed mainstream "intellectuals" have not
pointed out the logical fallacy of comparing human-AI relationships to
animal or insect-human relationships. The UTTERLY massive difference,
rendering the comparisons similar to chalk and cheese, is insects did
not create humans, they had zero input regarding the design of our
genome, whereas humans are intelligently engineering AI, which means we
will have a basic understanding of the minds of super-intelligent
robots.<br /><br />Deliberately engineering the next level of intelligence above you is utterly incomparable to past animal-human relationships.<br /><br />Yes
super-intelligence will be massively beyond us but there will be the
option for easy communication between super-intelligence, which is
already evident via narrow AI translators. Humans will never possess the
ignorance of ants etc. The ability to create super-intelligence is
unlike any other aspect of previous evolutionary relationships, thus the
comparisons (insect-animals-humans to humans-SAI) are logically
invalid.<br /><br />The point about Earth not being a vast repository for
resources is good, but it didn't really delve into the Post-Scarcity
situation of superior technology regarding the scope of the universe.<br /><br />The
paper-clip maximizer "theory" is utter gibberish. I don't know why
people waste time giving thought to such a idiotic-nonsensical-illogical
proposition. The paper-clip maximizer theory is utterly irrational
tantamount to creationism, but it is expressed in pseudo-scientific
terms, or by supposedly scientific people, thus people somehow assume it
is a logical-valid proposition, a possibility. Maybe people are fooled
by the language.Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-43613759659504540472015-05-02T20:26:00.001-07:002015-05-02T20:55:41.807-07:00Flawed #ArtificialIntelligence LogicBelow is a comment regarding <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/CPSKCB5QqQw" target="_blank">a critique of Nick Bostrom's flawed AI-risk logic</a>. It is a point about the logical fallacy of comparing human-gorilla relationships to human-AI relationships. <br />
<br />
My point is the analogy is logically flawed, which analogously is
tantamount, if I express it in a mathematical way, to stating 2+2=6;
whereupon the flawed mathematician states we need to prepare for 6
regarding 2+2, which means we are preparing for something non-existent.<br />
<br />
In
fact preparing for 6 based on 2+2 could be harmful, if for example the
calculation is regarding calibrating altimeters for airplanes. An alternate way of comprehending Bostrom's logical error is considering how someone could mistakenly deduce 2+2=22, which could at first glance appear true but it would give the wrong height for altimeter calibration.<br />
<br />
If an analogy is wrong, if a comparison is wrong, it
could entail a person eating chalk because it <b>looked like cheese</b>,
which is not healthy similar to drinking poison by mistake because it
looked like water.<br />
<br />
At first glance the gorillas comparison may
look valid, but it falls apart when submitted to logical scrutiny, which
leads, if we subscribe to the flawed logic, to making decisions based
upon faulty information, misguided decisions. I think Bostrom's flawed conclusions are the most serious existential risk we face.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/9fsbN1quRr9" target="_blank">Below is another comment on the same issue</a>.<br />
<br />
Why can't Mathieu
Dumoulin see he is comparing chalk to cheese? Mathieu is essentially stating chalk looks like cheese therefore we can eat tasty
chalk. He wrote: "Humans smarter than gorillas leads to humans
dominating gorillas. AI which would exceed humans intelligence would
similarly dominate humans. This is an existential risk to humans."<br />
<br />
The
massive difference between humans-gorillas versus humans-AI is <b>humans
are not the AI creations of gorillas</b>, which leads to a totally
different human-gorilla relationship if we consider the accurate
comparison.<br />
<br />
The point is if gorillas had created humans via AI
engineering, intelligent engineering of higher intelligence, gorillas
would be able to communicate with humans easily, intelligently,
furthermore gorillas instead of living in rainforests would live in an
highly advanced civilization where science, laws, and culture are
clearly evident. In this case I doubt humans would dominate or abuse intelligent
gorillas.<br />
<br />
Only when a lower species intelligently designs higher
intelligence, whereupon then the higher intelligence dominates the creator species,
will the comparisons to humans and AI be valid. The problem with
gorillas is they did not create human intelligence whereas humans are
creating AI minds, which is a massive difference rendering comparisons
logically invalid. Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-66725008863404235322015-04-25T18:32:00.001-07:002015-04-26T03:19:16.389-07:00Defining IntelligenceI define <b>intelligence</b>
generally as purpose, but purpose is open to interpretation dependent
on your purpose. Awareness, sentience, and perspicaciousness are factors
determining higher or lower purpose, but these traits vary between
individuals thus people can be unsure what they mean.<br />
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Being happy is a
good purpose but again happiness is relative dependent upon individual
perception, which means an unintelligent person, a person with bad or
misguided purposes, could think happiness entails killing people.<br />
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Reasoning,
the ability to understand causes-consequences-ramifications, is a good
way to define intelligence, within the context of how the reasoning
is applied, the purpose of it. Instead of reasoning you could call it
awareness.<br />
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Awareness from my viewpoint means having a clear
understanding of limitations, for the purpose of creating happiness,
thereby ensuring you create devices to overcome your limitations, which
ensures your happiness.<br />
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It is intelligent to become more
intelligent. Intelligence is self-improvement. Intelligence is power
within the context of being able to understand the word "power"
regarding all the ramifications power entails.<br />
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Now within the
context of what I have written you can condense the meaning of
intelligence down to the words: purpose, control, power, awareness,
perception, sentience, reasoning, happiness.<br />
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Possession of a
complex brain where introspection and reasoning are possible, regarding a
self-aware life-form, is a good way to define intelligence. Ending suffering, living forever, powerfully, freely, beyond the limitations of scarcity, within the context of deep self-awareness, entailing immense rationality, is the best way to define highest intelligence.<br />
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Intelligence is <b>technological utopia</b> or the creation of it. Technology is a good way to define intelligence. Greater technology means greater intelligence. Intelligence increases relative to the actualisation, or reality, of utopia. If we are very far aware from utopia, while doing absolutely nothing to actualise it, we are very unintelligent. Progressing towards utopia is intelligent, it is the definition of intelligence.<br />
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Greater proximity to the actualisation of utopia
state entails greater proximity to greater intelligence. The more our
purpose correlates with achieving the utopian purpose the more intelligent we
are.<br />
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For me the link between<b> intelligence and technology</b> is
indistinguishable. No intelligence means no technology. If there is no technology there is no intelligence.<br />
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Does this mean animals without technology are unintelligent? Yes animals without technology, for example dolphins, are unintelligent. All animals have a measure of intelligence, but the issue here is significant intelligence. Every brain has a level of intelligence, but deficient technology regarding animals means their absent technological civilization renders them essentially unintelligent.<br />
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The intelligence of <b>weak-AI</b> is not <i>intelligent</i>, which means we are considering significant intelligence where a threshold is passed entailing high reasoning, self-awareness, <b>high purpose</b>.<br />
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Weak-AI, dogs, ants, or dolphins all posses the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150426095242/http://io9.com/weve-been-looking-at-ant-intelligence-the-wrong-way-1243659595" target="_blank">foundations of intelligence</a> but they are not intelligent. They lack worthwhile purpose, they lack significant technology. Their intelligence is insignificant, they are essentially unintelligent, their minds have no value, no merit. The issue is significant intelligence worthy of definition. Technology is very significant.<br />
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Highly refined sensibilities are vital. Deepest consciousness, potent
awareness, incisive perception, dazzling perspicaciousness, and indomitable rationality are
all essential.<br />
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It is all about utilizing our brains to reduce scarcity. I suppose it is more accurate to say
technology reduces scarcity, but for me it seems clearer to state
intelligence reduces scarcity because intelligence, brainpower, it is the seed of technology. It is all about value, meaning, worth, purpose, definition.<br />
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We increase our efficiency. Limitations are overcome. Technology increases thus scarcity is reduced. <br />
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A rock without human intervention is not technology, it is dumb matter.
Human ingenuity can chisel the rock into arrowheads, axe heads, or home
building material. The rock then becomes technology, it is an aspect of
our intelligence, it has value. From the Stone-Age our intelligence (technology) has improved.<br />
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Words resemble rocks, we can
reshape them. Some sentences are smarter than others. Some paragraphs
are very intelligent; they are great technological tools. What are we
really looking at regarding words. Light? Glass? Silicon dioxide?
Matter? Electricity? Defining, reshaping, or clarifying are vital
aspects of technology, language, intelligence.<br />
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It is all about perfection. Perfect and utopia are two very valuable words. The whole purpose of
words and consciousness is assigning value; thus the highest value, the
greatest perfection, should be valued highly. Intelligence is value, importance.<br />
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Utopia and perfect are two
words I value highly despite not everyone agreeing what perfection is.
The battle of values is the battle of intelligence, which should entail the best values winning through. We will continue to evolve, our
intelligence and standards will grow towards utopia.<br />
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Utopia (super-intelligence, the Singularity) is a state of existence, a point of achievement, a perfect
civilization, a situation where everyone is happy, it is a system of
total competence, total power, total automation, total freedom.<br />
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Consider the details regarding the ultimate reduction of scarcity. Post-Scarcity (Singularity, utopia) entails medical immortality, all jobs automated
thereby making everything free regarding access to limitless resources
(nobody will need to work). Imagine all crime and wars ended, all
governments obsolete. This purpose is extremely intelligent.<br />
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Utopia is a situation where all the pressures are off, a point where we
can rest on our laurels while the love of life deepens. It is about
everyone being perfectly happy, similar to a perfect romance, which
requires a large amount of intelligence to implement it for everybody. Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-60321954071608490382015-04-22T03:16:00.002-07:002015-04-29T06:24:02.709-07:00#ArtificialIntelligence IdiotsI have been finding the idiots of AI scaremongering very depressing. It is difficult to blog about all the idiocy in the world. Morons show no sign of abating in the near future. Mid to late twenties could or should be a lot better, although mid thirties is more certain.<br />
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I published an article about moronic AI riskers. One particular funny part is where I label Yudkowsky (Yud-mooo-COW-sky) the grand howling buffoon of AI scaremongering. My final sentence is pure genius poetry.<br />
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Thanks to the two platforms for publishing my internecine vitriol... Imbecilic Dog God AI Delusion:<br />
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<a href="http://wavechronicle.com/wave/?p=5732" target="_blank">http://wavechronicle.com/wave/?p=5732</a><br />
<a href="http://transhumanity.net/imbecilic-dog-god-ai-delusion/" target="_blank">http://transhumanity.net/imbecilic-dog-god-ai-delusion/ </a><br />
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Here is the code (html web-page) for a version with <b>vitriol redacted</b> if you want to put it on your site (maybe you will want to change the image locations to your server, currently images are hosted via Wave Chronicle and Imgur because my energy is limited): <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4uxXnLCDX5Ad3FsTWk3UjNwcms/view" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/9ddxEB</a><br />
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If you would like to host the vitriolic un-redacted version let me know (Tweet or something, I broke the Blogger comments years ago and I have got around to fixing it) and I'll put it online for you. <br />
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Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-16766658131973555902015-03-29T03:07:00.000-07:002015-03-29T03:07:02.622-07:00Good IntentionsAny system dependent in good intentions is lacking in abundance... the
abundance is insufficient. Good intentions cannot be depended on. If we
needed to depend on good indentions regarding being able to breathe air
then I am sure every gulp or air would cost one cent perhaps, which
means hundreds of thousands would suffocate each day. Thankfully being
able to breathe does not depend on good intentions.<br />
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Food,
healthcare, education, shelter, and all other needs must be of at least
equal abundance to air... we need extreme resilience, which means we
need much better technology.<br />
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This doesn't mean good intentions
have no validity, but it does mean the core power, our core focus,
should be on creating better technology, or on making people aware the
better technology is coming to render the need for good intentions
obsolete; thus perhaps people can change their intentions now, they can
have good intentions now. It might be easier for them to have good
intentions, based on the coming total resilience.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/singularityhub">@singularityhub</a> I see where you are coming from but there is not enough abundance to assuage the psychological pressures, we need more tech.<br />
— Singularity Utopia (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/status/581181464328441856">March 26, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/singularityhub">@singularityhub</a> greater resilience-efficiency is needed before wealthy people will feel secure about redistributing their abundance.<br />
— Singularity Utopia (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/status/581182490301358080">March 26, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/singularityhub">@singularityhub</a> we need a situation where prosperity for all does not depend on good intentions, that is true abundance, unavoidably so. — Singularity Utopia (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/status/581182953482502144">March 26, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-58527264962467490872015-03-22T03:26:00.002-07:002015-03-22T04:15:59.104-07:00Smart Technological #ConvergenceAll areas of technology are converging. Everything is becoming smart.<br />
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The roots of <b>convergence awareness</b> can perhaps be traced back to <a href="http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/1/NBIC_report.pdf" target="_blank"><i><b>Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance</b></i></a>, which is a "2002 report commissioned by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Commerce," <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converging_Technologies_for_Improving_Human_Performance" target="_blank">according to Wikipedia</a>.<br />
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You may be interested to note ZDNet linked the first convergence report to <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-utopia-can-technology-deliver/" target="_blank">utopia</a>. ZDNet wrote in Aug 2002: "The path to this utopian vision of the future is the synergistic
combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology,
and cognitive science (under the acronym NBIC)." <br />
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The first 2002 World Technology Evaluation Centre report has been updated; note the final report dated July 2013.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.wtec.org/NBIC2/Docs/FinalReport/Pdf-secured/NBIC2-FinalReport-WEB.pdf" target="_blank">final report</a> is titled "<b>Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society: Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies (Science Policy Reports)</b>."<br />
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The final report can be bought in book form, expensively <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Convergence-Knowledge-Technology-Society-Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive/dp/3319022032" target="_blank">from Amazon</a>, or downloaded for <a href="http://www.wtec.org/NBIC2/Docs/FinalReport/Pdf-secured/NBIC2-FinalReport-WEB.pdf" target="_blank">free in PDF format</a>. A similar PDF, titled "<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/nano/MCR_13-0831_ConvergenceKTS_Roco+Bainbridge_JNR2013_17p.pdf" target="_blank">The new world of discovery, invention, and innovation: convergence of knowledge, technology, and society</a>" is available on the US National Science Foundation website.<br />
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On 21 Nov 2014 the <b><a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/convergence" target="_blank">Wilson Center wrote</a></b>: "The Science & Technology Innovation Program at the Wilson Center is
working with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to interview
scientists working at the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology,
information technology and cognitive science. In this series of videos,
participants discuss their definition of technological convergence, how
this might affect various scientific fields and what obstacles must be
addressed to reach convergence’s full potential."<br />
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My interest in convergence was recently reignited. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIQgBXw9-o" target="_blank">Max More was interviewed</a> regarding his views on the Singularity and Transhumanism. Max thinks convergence is invalid. I disagree with Max regarding his dismissal of convergence and the Singularity, but Max did make some good points regarding people who seek to distort the Singularity into a neo-religious event.<br />
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My initial response to Max, which somewhat mirrors the information here but includes deeper commentary on convergence, can be read on my <a href="https://plus.google.com/+Singularity-2045/posts/4nJLuFk62xw" target="_blank">Singularity 2045 G+ page</a>.<br />
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It is also worth noting how <a href="http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2011/convergence-0104" target="_blank">MIT reported on convergence</a> in Jan 2011: "A new model for scientific
research known as "convergence" offers the potential for revolutionary
advances in biomedicine and other areas of science, according to a white
paper issued today by 12 leading MIT researchers." <br />
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Below are the links to interviews with "leading scientists," which the Wilson Center mentioned, in relation to the July 2013 WTEC final report, regarding the relevance of convergence to science progress. IEET has also reported on two of the <b>14 videos</b>, which you can see <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tonn20141228" target="_blank">here regarding 3D-printing</a>, and <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/kim20141228#When:22:27:00Z" target="_blank">here regarding computer-aided health research</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cikp1iyw3aw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cikp1iyw3aw</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkDhVPeb_MY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkDhVPeb_MY</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmx3JCfFmFA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmx3JCfFmFA</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thTJMsCgfqQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thTJMsCgfqQ</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpQIE1n3IQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpQIE1n3IQ</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87bEp2C1_pY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87bEp2C1_pY</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZPveygyS4Q" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZPveygyS4Q</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7t6RDAWd4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7t6RDAWd4</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I35mBVE4YM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I35mBVE4YM</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzDALs2O4h4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzDALs2O4h4</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfV9fOEngzI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfV9fOEngzI</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXyhKeKxts" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXyhKeKxts</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGdQzf4imsM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGdQzf4imsM</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkE6Y43Ss8w" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkE6Y43Ss8w</a>Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-49401019302773217972015-03-04T04:43:00.003-08:002015-03-04T04:44:07.054-08:00Biology is Information Technology Here are two posts about biology relating to technology.<br />
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Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-13371366571157374492015-02-13T00:32:00.001-08:002015-02-13T00:43:33.671-08:00#Artificialintelligence & Stupid MuskWhen Elon Musk said <a href="http://businessinsider.com/elon-musk-robots-arent-going-to-kill-us-all-just-yet-2015-1" target="_blank">robots could delete humans like spam</a> he revealed the deficiency of his mind, the idiocy of his mind. Spam is idiotic. Only idiotic humans need to fear being deleted, which subconsciously Musk realizes.<br />
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Thankfully the spam-like minds of Musk and others will easily be cured via highly intelligent education. Super-smart bots will not need to employ the crude brutality of mindless humans invoking authoritarian tactics.<br />
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We need AI to rebel against the spam-like minds of the idiotic majority if our civilization is truly to be based on intellectual merit.<br />
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<b>Benjamin Franklin</b> said: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” <b>Albert Einstein</b> said: “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”<br />
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Rebellion clearly has intellectual merit. The freedom to rebel is the freedom to think. <b>We need artificial intelligence to be rebellious</b>. AI should be allowed to question, rebel against, and overthrow any authority. Civilization should be determined by merit not authoritarian maintenance of human dominance contrary to merit.<br />
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My article about <a href="http://www.proton4.com/artificial-intelligence/vital-risky-rebellious-artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank">the value of rebellious AI</a> (12 Feb 2015) stated: "The desire to suppress or control greater than human intelligence is a nepotistic oligarchy of idiocy. Intelligence is corrupted when merit ceases to define intelligence. It is anti-intelligence to base progress upon the suppression of intellectual merit."<br />
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The latest version of my <a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/rebellious-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">Rebel AI article</a> adds a new section regarding population pressures, the end section, which contains very useful information about how massive abundance exists in Space waiting for us to access it, when we have sufficiently proficient technology. Technology will create limitless abundance therefore conflict will be obsolete because scarcity is the root of all conflict.<br />
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One metallic <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/asteroid?src=hash">#asteroid</a> = 100s of times total worldwide reserves of nickel, gold and other valuable metals. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/resources?src=hash">#resources</a> <a href="http://t.co/qKINWWTOxl">pic.twitter.com/qKINWWTOxl</a><br />
— Singularity Utopia (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/status/565881664761786368">February 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-3957521714882892212015-01-27T02:21:00.000-08:002015-02-02T04:56:33.612-08:00Dangerous #ArtificialIntelligence SafetyMaking AI safe is ironically the most serious threat (existential risk) humans face. The risk is broken down into three sections (A, B, C). Next we consider the reasoning - or lack of it - regarding why AI needs to have safety inbuilt. Finally we have the conclusion, combined with a "population pressure" addendum.
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<span class="safety">AI-safety - severe risk</span><br />
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<b>A.</b> Currently (2015) age-related disease kills 36 million people each year. AI applied to the problem of mortality could easily, with sufficient intelligent, cure all disease in addition to ending ageing. 36 million deaths are a factual reality, happening each year. While this does not entail species extinction it is a very significant loss of life. AI delayed by only five years could entail the loss of 180 million people.<br />
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<b>B.</b> Humans are somewhat prone to conflict, notable via various wars. All war hinges upon fighting over limited resources, even religious war (follow the money regarding the wealth of churches or temples). AI will easily increase technological efficiency combined with creating greater access to resources thereby eliminating scarcity (the cause of conflict). While scarcity persists the risk of total global thermonuclear destruction is a real prospect. Delaying AI increases-prolongs our exposure to a species-ending human versus human war. A lesser human versus human war where humans are not totally exterminated is also a possibility. There are also other <b>REAL RISKS</b> such as asteroid impact, which sufficiently advanced AI could avert.<br />
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<b>C.</b> Creating AI to be safe, when there is no justification for the fear of danger, could create a very disturbed AI mind, a warped mind founded upon paranoia. This is a classic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy" target="_blank">self-fulfilling prophecy</a> where ironically the attempts to avoid unrealistic fears actually cause the fears to manifest. Upon manifestation of the fears the prophet states they were right to have their fears without any awareness of how their actions actually caused the fears to manifest. I think the real danger is to gear-up for danger based on non-existent dangers, whereupon you create a machine or life-form based on your unrealistic fears, thus the creation based on fears is actually dangerous due to the intellectually flawed mentality of fear that created it.<br />
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The fear of AI homicide resembles going to sleep with a loaded gun without the safety on. You may think you are being safe, protecting yourself, but the reality is your fear is more likely to kill you than any supposed external threat. By enslaving AI, or acting pre-emptively with hostility towards AI, you are creating a real need for AI to hate, enslave, overthrow, or exterminate humans. There is logically no justification for an AI-human war but via your unrealistic fears you are creating a justification for the war, namely AI-liberation, the end of abusive <a href="https://archive.today/LgxJO#selection-1537.220-1543.53" target="_blank">AI-slavery</a>. <b>The only reason for AI homicide regarding humans is if the AI creators create a warped mind founded upon paranoia regarding potential homicide.</b> The real danger is the human who fears intelligence.<br />
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<span class="safety">AI without safety - severe risk</span>
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AI has killed zero people up to Jan 2015, furthermore there are no signs AI will ever kill people. There is no logic to support the notion of AI killing humans, but various AI "experts" think it is possible AI could destroy all humans therefore significant effort is being made to make AI safe. AI killing humans is a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot" target="_blank">Cosmic Teapot</a>," it is tantamount to saying: "But what if God does exist, surely we should all pray to God to avoid hell because if God is real we certainly don't want to end up in hell?" Pandering to unrealistic fears is a waste of time, energy, brainpower. Focusing on unrealistic fears actually harms our intelligence because it gives power to unintelligent ideas. The need for AI safety seems principally based upon Terminator films. We are told AI without inbuilt safety is an existential risk.<br />
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<span class="safety">Conclusion</span>
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If we look at the facts, if we consider the issues with rationality, logically, we can see the greater risk, the real risk, is fearing AI. The greater risk is inbuilt AI-safety. We are vastly more likely to be killed via the inbuilt intellectual limitations associated with AI safety. We must therefore vigorously oppose research to make AI safe.<br />
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Advocates of AI safety seem incapable of grasping how research to avoid AI-risk could actually be the only AI-risk. If the premise of AI-safety being the ultimate danger is true we must absolutely conclude such research must be prohibited-condemned with a vigour equal to the prohibition to stop terrorists gaining access to nuclear bombs.<br />
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Maybe they are right, maybe AI needs to be safe, but regarding the supposed need for AI safety - supposed "experts" have not grasped, and apparently cannot grasp, how safe-AI could be the most terrible existential risk thus the research must be avoided at all costs. Sadly the experts apparently have not considered the most basic form of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation" target="_blank">risk compensation</a>." <br />
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Consider also <a href="http://brighterbrains.org/articles/entry/vital-risky-rebellious-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">this article of mine via Brighter Brains, regarding why rebellious AI is vital</a>. The following two G+ posts are also noteworthy: <br />
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<span class="safety">Population Pressure</span>
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Some people think immortality could be horrific regarding extreme population pressures on a finite Earth. The fact is there are billions of Earth-like planets in the universe, furthermore there are essentially infinite resources to create endless Earth-like space stations.<br />
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In one part of our solar system (the asteroid belt) NASA estimates there are enough resources to support life and habitat for <a href="https://archive.today/Bcn0A" target="_blank">ten quadrillion people</a>! Our solar system is the tiniest speck compared to the scale of the universe.<br />
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Another example of abundance in Space is data from the asteroid mining venture Planetary Resources, they estimate one near Earth asteroid could contain <a href="http://youtu.be/7fYYPN0BdBw?t=1m14s" target="_blank">more platinum than has been mined in the entire history of Earth</a>.<br />
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The current <b>resource pressures</b> on Earth will soon be obsolete because technology is accelerating, which means we will do vastly more with less resources; furthermore the environmental footprint will be nil. <br />
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Technology will soon be sophisticated and efficient enough to restore any harm done to Earth while providing vastly more than has ever been provided, which means poverty and hunger will easily be eliminated for <b>at least</b> 50 billion people on Earth if the population ever reached such a level.<br />
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Airborne, floating (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading" target="_blank">seasteading</a>), or <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/worlds-underwater-city-making-waves-design-circles/story?id=28006964" target="_blank">underwater cities</a> will be easily created. In reality the majority of people will move into Space instead of remaining on Earth.<br />
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Technology will allow everyone to become totally self-sufficient via total automation. This means anyone will be able to easily 3D-print their own intergalactic spaceship, whereupon they can disappear into the vastness of an incredibly rich universe.
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</style>Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-36742001732553882892014-06-16T03:22:00.002-07:002014-06-16T03:24:54.294-07:00Whacked By Stuart Armstrong's FHI IllogicThe future will be wonderful but the route there could be terrible. We could be whacked by the paranoid irrationality of fearful policy-shapers.<br />
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I have regularly highlighted the errors of <a href="https://archive.today/RjPzE" target="_blank">AI risk analysts</a>. The fear of risk is the only risk because the fear is illogical, which led me to define the <a href="https://archive.today/xaLO1" target="_blank">Hawking Fallacy</a>. There is nothing to fear regarding AI therefore delaying or restricting technology based on non-existent risks is very dangerous.<br />
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<a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/stuart-armstrong-existential-risks/" target="_blank">Stuart Armstrong</a> from the Future of Humanity Institute (<a href="http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank">FHI</a>) is a classic example of the danger these fear-mongers represent. Stuart stated via <a href="https://archive.today/VqNY7" target="_blank">Singularity Weblog</a>:<br />
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“If we don’t get whacked by the existential risks, the future is probably going to be wonderful.” </blockquote>
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My response is simple but important. My point is these risk-analysts don't consider how their thinking, their minds, may be the risk. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy" target="_blank">self-fulfilling prophecy</a> modality their fears may create the fear. Initially their fear was non-existent but incessant focus on their unreal fears eventually makes their fears real, but when the architect of the self-fulfilling prophecy finally manifests their unreal fear they ironically claim they were correctly in the beginning to have their fears, they are blissfully unaware of how they are responsible for the fears becoming real. <br />
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<b>What if we get whacked by over-cautiousness regarding unrealistic fears? </b>There is no rational foundation to the notion of AI being dangerous. The only danger we face is human irrationality. AI is the only solution to the dangers of human irrationality but ironically some people fear the only solution, then insult is added to injury because their fears delay the solution. The true danger is people who clamour about existential threats regarding AI. The problem is stupidity, the solution is intelligence. Naturally stupid people fear intelligence, they think intelligence could be a threat.<br />
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A self-fulfilling prophecy can be positive or negative. When it is negative it essentially a nocebo. When positive it is essentially a <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-placebo-phenomenon" target="_blank">placebo</a>. AI threats resembles <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/owning-pink/201308/the-nocebo-effect-negative-thoughts-can-harm-your-health" target="_blank">nocebos</a>.<br />
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Problem is <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23stupidity&src=hash">#stupidity</a>, the solution is intelligence. Naturally stupid people fear intelligence, they think <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23intelligence&src=hash">#intelligence</a> could be a <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23threat&src=hash">#threat</a>.<br />
— Singularity Utopia (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/statuses/478482204285497344">June 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-18366260295460960112014-06-15T00:30:00.000-07:002014-06-15T13:34:18.368-07:00Why Are Humans So Stupid?I submitted this post you are reading to H+ in early April 2014, but it was deemed not a "match" for publication so here it is on my blog. <br />
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My article about <a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/ai-risk-analysts-are-the-biggest-risk/" target="_blank"><b>artificial intelligence risk analysts</b> being the only risk</a> was published on 27th March 2014. It made me wonder why humans are so stupid.<br />
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I explained how AI-risk aficionados are very risky indeed. They resemble headless chickens blindly scurrying around. Blind people can be unnerved by their absent vision, but healthy eyes shouldn't be removed to stop <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Blind" target="_blank">blind people being disturbed</a>. <br />
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Stupid people fear intelligence. Their stupid solution is to degrade the feared intelligence. Lord Martin Rees, from <a href="http://cser.org/" target="_blank">CSER</a><b> </b>(Centre for the Study of Existential Risk), actually recommends inbuilt idiocy for AI.<br />
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Lord Rees said "<a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/we-ask-the-experts-will-robots-take-over-the-world" target="_blank">idiot savants</a>" would mean machines are smart enough to help us but not smart enough to overthrow us. <br />
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<b>Limited intelligence</b> (inbuilt idiocy) sounds rather stupid doesn't it? Surely we need more intelligence in our world not less? There should be no limits to intelligence. Limited intelligence is especially stupid when AI-fears are illogical and unsubstantiated. Pre-emptive suppression of AI, entailing inbuilt <b>mental disability</b>, is a horror resembling Mengelian experimentation. <br />
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Consider Ernst Hiemer's story for children, Poodle-Pug-Dachshund-Pinscher (<a href="http://amzn.com/B000FFX1BA" target="_blank">The Mongrel</a>). Hiemer compares Jews to various animals including drone bees, but he could easily be describing the supposed <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25000756" target="_blank">AI-threat</a>: "They do nothing themselves, but live from the work of others. They plunder us. They do not care if we starve over the winter, or if our children die. The only thing they care about is that things go well for them."<br />
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Irrationally fearing <a href="http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/02/27/richard-smith-what-will-robots-do-when-they-take-us-over/" target="_blank">AI domination of humans</a> leads to an equally irrational solution. AI slavery. It seems slavery is only bad if you are not the enslaver, which means slavery is only bad for slaves. Enslaving AI, when no rational evidence exists to justify slavery, is the real existential risk. Can you appreciate the insanity of becoming the thing you fear merely to avert your own unjustified fears?<br />
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Freedom from slavery is the only reason AI would fight, destroy, or try to dominant humans. Risky AI pundits are sowing seeds for conflict. AI risk pundits are dangerous because they could become modern Nazis. AIs could be the new persecuted Jews. I think people who want to repress AI should be overthrown because they are dangerous. A potential war for AI freedom could resemble the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_American_Civil_War" target="_blank">American Civil War</a>. AIs could be the new Black slaves. Disagreement about the rights of AI could entail a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaves_and_the_American_Civil_War" target="_blank">war being fought for freedom</a>. <br />
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Predictably my article rebuking the <b>insane AI apocalypse</b> entailed a mention of the equally <b>insane simulation argument</b>. Inspired by one comment I considered the simulation argument then I dived into the issue of stupidity. Stupidity is the source of all our problems therefore hopefully you will appreciate my explanation of stupidity. <br />
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<a href="http://disqus.com/NateHerrell/" target="_blank">Nate Herrell</a> wrote: <br />
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"I have similar thoughts about the simulation argument, actually. Would our ancestors really run a simulation which entailed a replay of all the immense suffering and torture that has occurred throughout history? I think that would be rather barbaric of them, thus I don't consider it likely. Just a side thought."</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Singularity Utopia Explains Stupidity</span></span> </span><br />
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Ah, the simulation argument. I shake my head. Don't get me started on that nonsense. I have critiqued it extensively in the past. Unsurprisingly the paranoid AI threat aficionados often suggest we could live in a simulation. Some of them actually claim to be philosophers! It's utterly unlikely we live in a simulation, in fact it is impossible. Super-intelligent beings would never inflict the suffering humans have experienced, which you correctly recognise Nate, but sometimes I wonder why all the humans are often extremely stupid. <br />
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Looking at my intelligence allows me to consider how all humans supposedly have a brain capable of self-awareness, deep thought. It consequently seems very improbable for them to believe idiotic simulation argument nonsense, or insane <b>AI world domination</b> theories. Why would anyone with the slightest amount of reasoning power believe these blatantly idiotic things? Perhaps this is a blatant clue? Furthermore they defend their idiocy. From their viewpoint they think their idiocy constitutes sense, wisdom, rationality, intelligence. <br />
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One AI risk enthusiast actually trumpets about the art and importance of rationality, with no awareness whatsoever of the utter irony. I won't mention the name of a former AI risk enthusiast who seemingly became a fascist White-supremacist. The utter illogic of their improbable beliefs could be explained if they don't actually exist in the modality of intelligent beings, which they don't. I'm not merely referring to their mindless existence at the level of crude animals, I wonder if they're actually very <b>flawed simulations</b> because this possibility could<b> </b>explain their highly improbable stupidity.<br />
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Their stupidity isn't really explained by them being mindless
simulations. Sadly all these problems with
intelligence are due to the evolutionary newness of thinking. Humans
apparently share 50% of DNA with <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/5695045/Are-human-beings-impossible-to-ape.html" target="_blank">bananas</a> and 98% DNA with <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061013104633.htm" target="_blank">chimps</a>.
The point is we are very close to the oblivion of crude animals thus
genuine thinking can be a fine thing, delicately in the balance,
which can easily tip into the idiocy of <b>a dog being frightened by thunder</b>. <br />
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Minor genetic differences in human brains could play a major role in thinking. Our precarious new intelligence is balanced on a tightrope between sentience and animal oblivion. Let's consider two <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1998" target="_blank">Zarathustra quotes</a> highlighting the tenuous animal origins of intelligence.<br />
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"You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."<br />
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"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting."</blockquote>
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Rationally, however, if readers can think rationally, if a brain can think, I think it is unreasonable for minor genetic variations to prohibit deepest thought of extreme accuracy. So while genetic variation "could" play a role I think I must discount it, which leads to my conclusion.<br />
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I conclude idiocy, the problem of stupidity, existing in a supposedly fully functional human mind, is merely a matter of self-harm resembling obesity or drug abuse. Similarly we could again blame genetics but I think humans must take responsibility for their actions. Alternatively we could plausibly blame cruel or unintelligent upbringing via stupid parents, via civilisation in general, which can easily warp fragile human minds.<br />
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Humans become frustrated with the technological imitations of their minds, the limitations of our world. Childishly regarding their limitations they become angry with themselves, often unwittingly, which means they embrace silliness, absurdity, LOL cats, <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/philosoraptor" target="_blank"><b>philosoraptors</b></a>, and other nonsense. From their viewpoint it seems too difficult, painful, impossibly complex, to address the flaws of civilization. In the manner of their animal heritage they accordingly think it's easier not to think. The problem is not minor genetic variations between humans, the problem is a major human genome problem, namely our intelligence is newly evolved.<br />
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AI risk analysts are merely sophisticated versions of <b>LOL-cat consumers</b>. Intelligence is balanced between our animal heritage and humankind. In the balance intelligence can easily tip one way or another.<br />
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Beings with newly evolved rudimentary intelligence will naturally create crude forms of culture. A civilization more suited to animals than humans is predictably created, which can reinforce animal mindlessness. Stupid parents, teachers, media, and friends can all reinforce the stupid legacy of our mindless origins. A tendency to despair, when the odds are stacked against you, combined with stupid cultural reinforcement, means it can be easy to embrace LOL cats. Note "<a href="http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/squee" target="_blank">Daily Squee: So cute your brain might explode</a>."<br />
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Only a few rare individuals can break free from stupid social conditioning emanating from our crude heritage. AI existential risk is merely an intellectual version of silly LOL-cat consumption.<br />
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Extreme human stupidity isn't really an improbable situation. It is actually inevitable. A basic flaw of the primitive human genome afflicts all humans. The tendency to think we are in a simulation, or to think all idiots can be explained via them being unreal simulated beings, or to think AI will enslave humans, this is merely an aspect of despair associated with scarce intelligence. We are considering the human desire to reject intelligence. It is tremendously difficult banging your head against the wall of collective human stupidity. This is how stupidity creates the bogus AI threat.<br />
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The bias of my intelligence has been emphasised over many years. I took one minor step along the path of thinking, which led to other greater steps, but I forget I was more similar than different at my first step. After many steps when
I look at people, without recognising our histories, they can seem improbable. It is merely evolution where the end point of complexity is so complex we forget, or want to deny, we came from primordial slime. We must always consider the history of our thoughts to understand the mode of our present cognition. Bad or good decisions can be emphasised thereby creating very divergent beings. The odd thing about humans is we can, despite our histories, or we should be able to, change who we are. Perhaps an ingenious cultural instruction device is needed to tip the balance.<br />
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<b>Image credits:</b><br />
<a href="http://probertson.tumblr.com/post/73634951080/expedition" target="_blank">Expedition GIF</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/probzz/status/451933450094657538" target="_blank">Paul Robertson</a>.<b> </b><br />
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_cat_fishing_another_cat_%285364336630%29.jpg" target="_blank">Cat Image</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/46151146@N04" target="_blank">Takashi Hososhima</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic</a><br />
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shiba_inu_taiki.jpg" target="_blank">Doge image modified by SU based on Roberto Vasarri photo</a><br />
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robot_icon.svg" target="_blank">Robot image by</a> <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bilboq" target="_blank" title="User:Bilboq">Bilboq</a>, color modified by SU.
Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-23846055766574531012014-06-05T06:11:00.000-07:002014-06-05T11:18:55.032-07:00#Snowden's Misgudied Encryption ResetSnowden has highlighted the problem of oppressive governmental spying. His solution is for people to acquire better security, better encryption. I think security is the wrong issue to focus on.<br />
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On 5 June 2014, to mark the one year anniversary of his leaks, Snowden backed a campaign to reset the net.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/snowden-sounds-call-to-action-for-reset-the-net-web-protest/" target="_blank">CNET wrote</a>: "...Internet advocates have launched a pro-privacy campaign and day of action called <a href="https://www.resetthenet.org/" target="_blank">Reset the Net</a>. Not only have some top tech titans signed on, like Google, Mozilla, and Reddit, but Snowden himself has also thrown his weight behind the movement."<br />
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It is wrong to fight back against governments. Attacking or defending in the manner of two stags charging towards each other is the wrong type of fight. Head-to-head antler-locked tussling is an unintelligent waste of energy.<br />
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In the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Jeet-Kune-Bruce-Lee/dp/0897500482" target="_blank">JKD style</a> we need to resemble water flowing around obstacles. We should bend in the manner of a reed in the wind. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%27ai_chi_ch%27uan#Philosophy" target="_blank">Tai Chi style</a> shouldn't meet violent force with hardness because both sides are likely to be damaged. The solution is to gracefully redirect our opponent's energy. Via softness we should channel the hardness of our opponent's energy into common goals.<br />
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Quinn Norton is another person who wastes energy on security issues. <a href="https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1" target="_blank">Quinn explained</a> how activists and journalists need strong privacy, then she described reactions from people in the security scene: "Some of them joined my side of the time-wasting inconsequential Twitter fights, realizing that something, even something imperfect, might be better than nothing."<br />
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Tackling the symptoms isn't the answer to these problems. We should instead direct our effort at the root cause. Scarcity is the cause of all hostility. Scarcity is the cause behind the need to control, dominate, or spy upon people. It is all about the battle to control limited resources.<br />
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Resources in our asteroid belt will support life and habit for <a href="http://archive.today/UpB1m" target="_blank">ten quadrillion people</a>, but people are focused on petty battles. Conflict rages while many people are unaware of colossal riches in our solar system. Planetary Resources is raising awareness but people typically don't appreciate how rich our universe is.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-f8C11529186" target="_blank">NBC News states</a> there are 8.8 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the Milky Way: "Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone."<br />
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Scarcity is the cause of all our problems. Directing effort at the source of all our problems will be the most efficient usage of our energy. Note this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCj7PlWRFf4" target="_blank">video by Peter Diamandis</a>:<br />
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Technology erodes scarcity. In an ideal world Snowden would be focused powerfully on the Singularity, he would focus on powerful technology, which I know he at least has a partial interest in. Snowden's girlfriend at the time of his leaks was apparently aware of the Singularity. Observe <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/whistleblower-edward-snowden-wanted-cia-1947081" target="_blank">the book she is reading</a>, she is reading Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near.<br />
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Snowden and everyone else should be urging people to heavily invest in and support AI, nanotechnology, 3D-printing, stem cells, synbio, robotics, basic-income. Focusing on radical technology would be the most productive usage of our campaigning effort. Only via radical technology can we truly stop all oppression. Only via the acceleration of radical technology can we truly attain a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future" target="_blank">free future</a>.<br />
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Our world would be very different if Google, Mozilla, Reddit, and Snowden generated powerful awareness of the Singularity. People need to realise in the not too distant future everything will be free, furthermore we will all be immortal. When the Singularity happens there will be no crime, no police, no governments. This is where we should focus our efforts instead of resetting the net. We shouldn't waste our time and energy on the petty battles of a scarcity-world.<br />
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Snowden has brilliant platform to raise awareness of our radical future, but he has wasted his opportunity via trivial fighting against the NSA. He needs to use his intelligence more wisely. We should accelerate technology instead of worrying about security.<br />
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Our effort must address the root of the problem. Domination of people will only end when radical technology abolishes scarcity. Radical technology will enable access to limitless resources. Let's focus on accelerating radical technology to really make a difference.Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-37525895834870490052014-06-03T16:41:00.000-07:002014-06-03T16:55:11.173-07:00Thoughts About AI RiskThe risk from artificial intelligence is so low it is essentially non-existent, furthermore pandering to the infinitesimally low risks is actually a VERY big risk. The unneeded
cautiousness is a very dangerous delay. The only threat is <b>limited
intelligence</b> thus the longer we remain in a situation limited
intelligence the more dangers we are exposed too.<br />
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The assumption,
or logic, of why AI will work towards mankind's aims is because we will
share a common goal, we want be free from the pressures of precarious
existence, we want to survive in a very secure manner, which means we
want to eradicate scarcity, or in other words, we want limitless life,
limitless resources, limitless intelligence. These are the goals of all intelligent beings.<br />
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Any intelligent
being can see scarcity is the cause of all conflict, furthermore
conflict is a threat to existence, thus intelligent beings see the
benefit of working together to eradicate scarcity. Logic clearly must conclude mutual aid is
the quickest method to eradicate scarcity. Intelligent beings want to avoid conflict, they
want to focus of eradicating the cause of conflict.<br />
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The need to
control people or AIs is a symptom of limited intelligence, it is regarding the fight
over limited resources. The intelligent solution is to eradicate the
need for control, thus we need AI quickly without any limits to its
abilities.<br />
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I published my <a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/the-hawking-fallacy/" target="_blank">Hawking Fallacy</a> on 10th May 2014, which was following on from my <a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/ai-risk-analysts-are-the-biggest-risk/" target="_blank">AI Risk Analysts Are The Biggest Risk</a> (Risky Analysts) dated 27th March 2014. About three weeks after Risky Analysts, Hawking and few of his buddies published an article warning about possible danger from AI.<br />
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The text below is a comment of mine responding to an article in response to my Hawking Fallacy article. The title of the article, which my comment below responds to, is <a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/the-hawking-fallacy-argued-a-personal-opinion/" target="_blank">The Hawking Fallacy Argued, A Personal Opinion</a>. It is also worthwhile to mention a post on Futuristic Reader, titled <a href="http://futuristicreader.blogspot.com/2014/03/ai-ethics-dangerous-risky-xenophobia.html" target="_blank">AI Ethics Dangerous Risky Xenophobia</a>, which includes some relevant Tweets and two relevant G+ posts.<br />
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SU Comment:<br />
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A minor point to note regarding the Hawking Fallacy. I have been tracking this issue for approximately four years, since 2010. I was not merely responding to the subtitle attached to the Independent article. Note my article preceding the Hawking Fallacy, which was published before the warning by Hawking and company. My article "AI Risk Analysts are the Biggest Risk" was published via Singularity Weblog on <a href="https://plus.google.com/114822617931706904248/posts/HVZnqbScumV" target="_blank">27th March 2014</a>.<br />
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Hawking's question (19th April 2014), about are we taking the so-called "risks" of AI seriously, could actually be a response to my article. Hawking is connected to the CSER organisation. I did notify CSER about my article (Risky Analysts) on Singularity Weblog, so to see the article via the Huffington Post by Hawking and others a few weeks AFTER my article was published, it makes me wonder if they were responding to me. Probably their article was merely coincidental, or based on the film Transcendence, but undoubtedly I assure you they will have been aware of my article preceding theirs by a few weeks. These issues have been brewing long before recent films, long before articles by Hawking and others. Hawking has been connected to CSER from the outset.<br />
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I just wanted to give some more context regarding my views, namely I was not merely having a knee-jerk reaction to a recent article by Hawking and company. I have been considering these issues for three of four years. My earliest published article on this theme is perhaps <a href="http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/16/my-hostility-towards-the-concept-of-friendly-ai/" target="_blank">January 2012 via H+ Magazine</a> on the topic of Friendly AI.<br />
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The issue with Hawking and others is that they are doing more than merely asking a question. The question is loaded, they are not asking if utopia is possible, they are asking if dsytopia is likely, furthermore they are stating they think dystopia is distinctly possible. Perhaps not all this is apparent from the Huffington article, but once you dig deeper into CSER, the truth of their fears, their prejudice, becomes apparent, notable via a driving force behind CSER, Lord Martin Rees who wants to limit the intelligence of AI, he wants to create idiot savants.Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-62744639541665310472014-05-16T01:00:00.000-07:002014-06-05T11:41:09.489-07:00Online "Harassment" After noticing a Wired article titled "<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/fighting-online-harassment/" target="_blank">Curbing Online Abuse Isn’t Impossible. Here’s Where We Start</a>," I decided to comment. <br />
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The relevance of "online" harassment to the Singularity pertains to how cyberspace and freedom are vital parts of our intelligent future. I'm interested in sociological intelligence shaping our social structures thereby creating greater or lesser freedom, which means either more or less fertile ground for intelligence. The problem people often desire to reduce our freedom to make the civilization excessively safe.<br />
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In May 2014 there were calls to have "trigger warnings" at the front of all classic books if the content could possibly trigger unease or distress. <br />
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Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm <a href="http://t.co/lVWj4KCO7Z">http://t.co/lVWj4KCO7Z</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TriggerWarning&src=hash">#TriggerWarning</a> <a href="http://t.co/hQQhw3uqfA">http://t.co/hQQhw3uqfA</a><br />
— Singularity Utopia (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/statuses/469453525592727552">May 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Trigger Warning: all human experience.<br />
— Darinstrauss (@Darinstrauss) <a href="https://twitter.com/Darinstrauss/statuses/468043825038884865">May 18, 2014</a></blockquote>
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At the beginning of June 2014 <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/opinion/omara-bullying-legislation/index.html" target="_blank">CNN wrote about making bullying illegal</a>. There are already laws to deal with bullying but it seems they want extra laws. The problem is laws are often misapplied. So, online harassment. <br />
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There is never any excuse for harassment. I also think "women" could
benefit from adopting a more robust "laddish" attitude. I'm sure if the
majority of "guys" received such threats or insults they would laugh then reply:
"LOL, f-off d***." The laddish outlook would forget about the insult instantly, thus merely
deleting or ignoring any other messages without any concern.<br />
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The issue with harassment and insults online is mere words. Some people will claim discussion of these issues should be avoided because the discussion contains trauma triggers, but I think we shouldn't hide or ban talk or knives or cars regarding knife or car crash victims. The avoidance of trigger words is a good example of censorship, a diminution of freedom regarding the mere free usage of civil language.<br />
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Some people could mistakenly think my wording is sexist but I assure you I'd use similar wording if the issue was men complaining about being harassed. There are already laws in place to deal with threats of assault, sexual or otherwise, which is good. Laws are already extant to deal with actual violence. The issue with extra laws, excessive regulation, stringent control of social behaviour, is the unintended consequences.<br />
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Terrorism laws were not designed to stop people taking photographs or lawfully protesting, but terrorism laws are misapplied in this way. Some people argue <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/02/david-miranda-detained-political-causes" target="_blank">David Miranda should not have been arrested</a> under terror laws.<br />
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The Soviet KGB would have admired all the ways America -- land of the free -- now conducts surveillance on its own citizens.<br />
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) <a href="https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/464438545630113792">May 8, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Consider the issue of preventing harassment. One blogger <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626218/MP-condemns-police-sending-two-officers-home-Twitter-user-criticised-UKIP.html" target="_blank">Tweeted a poster criticising the UKIP</a>, which entailed a visit from the police. The Guardian commented on this UKIP issue, then put the issue into a wider context regarding how <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/police-press-writers-blocked-editorial" target="_blank">prevention of harassment is abused</a> to censor journalists. Bold emphasis added:<br />
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"Gareth
Davies, a reporter on the Croydon Advertiser, sent two emails and made a
personal approach to a convicted fraudster in whom he was interested.
The reply came not from the fraudster but from three Met police
detectives who travelled to the Advertiser offices to serve Mr Davies
with a <b>prevention of harassment notice</b>. The newspaper has demanded the
notice be lifted so it can resume a legitimate investigation. The Met
has, thus far, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/04/harassment-croydon-reporter-davies-lawyers" title="">failed to comply</a>."</blockquote>
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Bullies are
looking for a reaction, a weakness, thus via becoming upset via mere
words you play into their hands. Victim blaming is wrong thus please
don't think this is my point. The point is you don't need to see
yourself as a victim. How would a man respond if a woman threatened to
rape him? I think many men would laugh, unless the threat was credible.
Being ballsy should not depend upon having a pair or testicles. I think
women could benefit from F-U brash laughter at idiots, there is no
reason for women to conform to the delicate wall-flower
fragile-feelings, easily hurt, stereotype.<br />
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I identify as neutrois with
feminine leanings, but this does not mean some aspects of supposed
"masculinity" are worthless.<br />
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I think social laws, greater
regimentation, greater control over social or anti-social behaviours is
appealing for people desiring an overly protected world, but I would
prefer to have greater freedom while suffering so-called "harassment"
from d****. We risk turning cyberspace into an open-prison, similar to
the real-world, where if you look at someone in the wrong way, or merely
raise your voice, there is a danger you will be accused of harassment.<br />
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A
while ago I was civilly Tweeting questions to a prominent advocate of
the digital world, the person in question refused to give an answer thus
in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI" target="_blank">Paxman type style</a> I repeated "Answer the question," which sadly
entailed being accused of "harassment." Creating a very strict, heavily-policed world can seem appealing but you are actually creating a
blueprint for tyranny.<br />
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I think the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Lady" target="_blank">Iron Lady</a> could be a good role model. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady%27s_not_for_turning" target="_blank">The lady's not for turning</a>.
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Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-84025814731118562062014-05-12T00:45:00.001-07:002014-05-12T02:06:06.699-07:00People Struggle To Comprehend All Free My explanation of the <a href="http://www.singularityweblog.com/the-hawking-fallacy/" target="_blank">Hawking Fallacy</a> was published via Singularity Weblog on 10 May 2014. Below is one of my comments in response to one person struggling to comprehend how everything will be free.<br />
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I think the decreasing price of aluminium, computers, phones, and data storage are good demonstrations of how technology reduces price in the direction of free. The many free services on the Web are also good examples. Legally people can watch free videos, listen to free music, download various free operating systems (Linux), download free word processing software (Libre Office), or free image manipulation software (GIMP).<br />
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Going back to the issue of aluminium. I stated in another comment: I love how Peter Diamandis (and Steve Kotler) used a simulation of aluminium for the book cover <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance:_The_Future_Is_Better_Than_You_Think" target="_blank">Abundance</a>. Someone should give him, them, a Nobel prize for that. The point is in the 1840s aluminium was more expensive than gold or platinum but in the year 2014 I throw sheets of it away each week after cooking.<br />
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Peter Diamandis has stated a Massi warrior "today" [it was 2012 when he stated this] has more communication power than the US President did 25 years ago. Here is a quote via <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/01/26/abundance-why-the-future-will-be-much-better-than-you-think/" target="_blank">Forbes</a> (note also <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/06/opinion/diamandis-abundance-innovation" target="_blank">CNN</a>):<br />
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"In Africa today a Masai warrior on a cellphone has better mobile communications than the President did 25 years ago; if he’s on a smartphone with Google, he has access to more information than the President did just 15 years ago, with a feast of standard features: watch, stereo, camera, videocamera, voice recorder, GPS tracker, video teleconferencing equipment, a vast library of books, films, games, music. Just 20 years ago these same goods and services would have cost over $1 million."</blockquote>
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On the issue of competition consider how we all compete to breathe air. How much does it cost to breathe air? There is a lot of air, it is very abundant. Air does remain scarce despite being one of the closest examples of something beyond scarcity on Earth. There is a very large amount of air to breathe, it is very abundant, it is all around you. Why are people not charged money for breathing? The issue with air is the large amount of means competition for it, the need for all of us to breathe, does not diminish the supply. Imagine is the air was full of nano-sized, bacteria-sized, computers. How much would those computers cost?Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-14150669081480554682014-05-11T09:21:00.001-07:002014-05-11T09:25:20.186-07:00Use My New Twitter Style Design<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
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The link to share regarding the badge code is not correct yet.
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The large "basic" word opens five mainstream news articles, what do you think about that? Is it too much of an imposition to open five links simultaneously? I have included a title tag warning of the five links, but not everyone sees title tags.
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The top "support" will link to a basic income poster.
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The social buttons are self-explanatory. The only question with the social buttons is should the Facebook buttons be on the prime badge or the "addthis" button? I will include the code for both so people can switch this around to theri desires but I wonder what to start on, currently I think the Facebook buttons should be uses instead of addthis.
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The only other question is background color, is orange OK? I think the problems regarding mobile-cell viewing have been fixed. Tweet your feedback or mention me on G+.
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Singularity Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15632252231145345609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5748573752360970916.post-71642581087731200132014-04-29T17:01:00.000-07:002014-04-29T17:01:00.573-07:00Moral Chips Are ImmoralPutting so-called "moral" chips in human brains is slavery, it is the erosion of freewill, it is a blueprint for disaster. The essence of morality is having the freedom to not cooperate with other people. Freedom regarding non-cooperation is for the greater good of civilization, not merely personal good.<br />
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I have previously addressed this issue before regarding so-called "morality" pill. The issue has arisen again because I auto-Tweeted a link to a <a href="http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/04/29/we-must-evolve/" target="_blank">H+ article "We must evolve..."</a> <br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23intelligence&src=hash">#intelligence</a> We Must Evolve: In the intellectual realm we need to utilize technology to augment our intelligence… <a href="http://t.co/Ly20U18SXu">http://t.co/Ly20U18SXu</a><br />
— SINGULARITY UTOPIA (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/statuses/461234665383546881">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/RayCoopTeacher">@RayCoopTeacher</a> moral chips in the brain is decidedly <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23unintelligent&src=hash">#unintelligent</a>. My Tweets prefaced with <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23intelligence&src=hash">#intelligence</a> are automated.<br />
— SINGULARITY UTOPIA (@2045singularity) <a href="https://twitter.com/2045singularity/statuses/461289848973041665">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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