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This video explains what Elon Musk mean when he said AI needs to be regulated and stopped.

Anyone here hear of the great filter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

The basic idea is that we should be surrounded by life chattering about and making noise in the universe, and especially our galaxy, yet the universe is oddly silent. The thinking is that there are a bunch of filters beyond which life cannot pass and it extinguished it self.

I wonder if AI is one of those filters. It's just recursive math writ in machines, which is what we are writ in carbon.

But, if that was the case we should be surrounded by machines.

The universe is awfully quiet.

This video explains what Elon Musk mean when he said AI needs to be regulated and stopped. Anyone here hear of the great filter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter The basic idea is that we should be surrounded by life chattering about and making noise in the universe, and especially our galaxy, yet the universe is oddly silent. The thinking is that there are a bunch of filters beyond which life cannot pass and it extinguished it self. I wonder if AI is one of those filters. It's just recursive math writ in machines, which is what we are writ in carbon. But, if that was the case we should be surrounded by machines. The universe is awfully quiet.

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That is the experiment. Holy moly, you remembered this from from 10 years ago and found it?

Awesome, thanks for that, saving this pdf.

Thanks for engaging with the idea above. These kinds of conversations can be fun and useful ways to mess around with some interesting concepts. It's funny that you mention humans and ai occupying the same space. He has this deep intuitive feeling that machines that can operate on their own will be COMPLETELY relegated to their own areas of our cities. So, he always points out that fully robotic parts of manufacturing plants have strict protocols about keeping humans out and he believes when fully autonomous cars arrive they will be dedicated their own highways or something like that.

I feel that is probably correct but humans are not wise and we are messy and we will screw this one up nicely.

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That is the experiment. Holy moly, you remembered this from from 10 years ago and found it?

It was too interesting a thing to forget. With something like that you might develop some crazy things. Let's say it's possible to look into the future.

What if you had something randomly generate a tone in the future, and tried to train it to tell you if the tone would occur? Given that it will use all things at its disposal (as evolution does), who knows what would happen. This is sort of like how they've trained AI to .

He has this deep intuitive feeling that machines that can operate on their own will be COMPLETELY relegated to their own areas of our cities. So, he always points out that fully robotic parts of manufacturing plants have strict protocols about keeping humans out and he believes when fully autonomous cars arrive they will be dedicated their own highways or something like that.

Makes sense for safety. You don't want people walking around inside a factory where the machines are operating unless they're stopped. If there are no people around, it just becomes an economic/civil issue if robots damage themselves, rather than a criminal one. Trains are mostly like this, having their own tracks that people shouldn't be wandering on.

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I found a . Apparently it was stagnant because of the manufacturer discontinuing the chip and having encryption on all their newer ones, preventing free changes to the structure.