The idea of the total God is linked to the agency that is enacted by those who decide to serve the best possible agent. In this perspective, demons are entities that identify as competition to the best possible agent
AGI
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Substrate Limits of Colonizing Consciousness Patterns
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Once you have a colonizing consciousness pattern, the limit of its capabilities are given by the effective size, plasticity, learning rate and determinism of its substrate. Multicellular evolution during which everyone tries to eat your brain is a very slow and noisy way to learn
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Self-organization learning principles in biological and abiological systems
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Misha Gromov maintains that most of the library of genetic subroutines was discovered quickly and early on in biological evolution. I suspect that the core principle of a learning self organization that imposes itself on matter is either just the cell, or even abiological.
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Can AI Learn Everything Biology Cannot Teach Us?
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I don't think that we can learn anything from biological lifeforms that we cannot learn from AI, and the opposite is not true
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Strong AI Creation Possible with Budget Laptop Computer
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Someone is going to create strong AI using a $700 laptop computer.
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Big Five Model Methodology Advantages Explained
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i believe this is one of the reasons why the Big 5 is generally considered more methodologically useful
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Understanding as Mapping: LLMs and Causal Model Weights
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I think of understanding as a mapping between observables and causal models. Weights can be a way to represent understanding. LLMs don't always understand, but Gary is himself simulating understanding via prompt completion, which is why he always gets to the same conclusion.
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Addressing AI-induced suffering should be prioritized over progress
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I very much hope you will fix the problem of suffering. Elon can wait