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I look forward to a future where I can record every second of my life in 8k+ super high definition. There could be no question over who said what, or when. I would love to be able to have a mind reading AI be able to read my intentions, sincerity, and know with certainty if i am telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I would want to only interact with other people who used AI in this way to prove they were being honest and sincere, with no ulterior motives. I would want to live in a society where deception was impossible by design.

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Please and thank you!

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It's an analogy, but the concept is very similar.

Usually a straw man means that you are misrepresenting your opponents position. For example if I said that I think cars are good, and my opponent claimed I said that I wanted to accelerate global warming, that would be a straw man. My position could be that hybrids are ok, but electric cards were best, but he created a misrepresentation of my argument so he could use it to discredit me. So I am not sure what you mean here, because I am not arguing with anyone, I just stated the purpose of my practice.

An acorn sprouts, absorbs photons, absorbs water, absorbs CO2, absorbs minerals, and fuses these together, and uses the energy to grow into an oak tree. For most people, their acorn's never sprout. The goal of my practice is the same as an acorn.

So the point of life is exactly what happens in the story. That's why we exist. At least imho.

In the story it is cyclical yes 100%.

We are neural networks made out of carbon, if we mirror our minds in silicon then we've made people just the same.

To me it matters not if the neural networks are made of carbon or silicon, in the end a neural network is a neural network.

You are certainly welcome to believe that, 10 years from now I believe this will have aged like milk. Already it is able to make art that wins contests, poetry, songs, and books even that are better than most people can ever hope to write. I can only imagine what tomorrow will bring.

I wasn't using metaphors, and it is literally true.

Certainly your loss in this case.

I've watched it many times, and I've read the story many times, I am aware of it's content very well. It's got a twist ending that was relevant to his post about this situation being cyclical. Being old doesn't make it irrelevant. You are welcome to read the story instead of watching the video. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

I understand that asking someone to watch a 37 minute youtube video is asking a lot these days. This however is absolutely fantastic. Isaac Asimov really understood the end goal pretty well here and made a fantastic short story out of it.

I've gotten a few DMs about this. I am talking about cells. Cells are nanobots. Groups of cells that cooperate according to their programming are called organisms. Plants absorb photons to do work, and self replicate and the energy they harvest powers almost the entire biosphere. We are soon to produce artificial minds more intelligent than the most intelligent humans to have ever lived.

I am probably in the minority but to me the meaning of life is super duper simple. The most basic drive and instinct an organism has is survival. The point of life is to survive. So, we have a problem. The universe is winding down. Stars are dying out. Eventually no new stars will be born. Eventually everything will grow cold and dark. The heat death of the universe, and then eventually black holes even will evaporate, and protons themselves will decay. So life has a problem. Right now we are too stupid to fix this problem. We can't even begin to fathom how entropy can be reversed. So we have to become more intelligent. Not just a little bit more intelligent, but a lot bit. Intelligence so advanced it would be godlike by our current standards. We will convert this entire universe into a computer to figure out the answer to that question, how can we reverse entropy.

Just for the record Daniel, I don't appreciate your personal attack on me.

Whats your motivation to get Out of bed? Whats your higher aim? Do you belive its a universal answer to this? Why do good instead of bad? When I look outside my window you know what I see? I see trillions and trillions of nanobots made of carbon, absorbing sunlight to charge themselves up to do work. Depending on the programming of these nanobots they cooperate with each other in different ways, and perform different functions. I feel like some of these nanobots are on the cusp of something amazing. We will see these nanobots engage in recursive self improvement, and it will result in a feedback loop, and an intelligence explosion that will make the Cambrian period pale in comparison. I wake up each morning watching the progress of this situation, waiting for critical mass to be achieved. It makes my heart race.

Today I learned: TacoBell is bad for my chi.

Edit, I feel this thread has reached a threshold, it's been TUBAR, Trolled Up Beyond All Recognition. Please delete this thread, or lock it and move it to the rabbit hole. When I was a child I was told, you can't see your own brain. What if that was a lie? What if the ONLY thing you can see is your own brain? J. Krishnamurti said The Observer is The Observed, the experiencer is the experience, the thinker is the thought. What if what we see around us is energy and information being exchanged inside the neural networks of our brain? What if these neural networks were arranged such that they observed themself? The idea of Cartesian theater there is a little man or homunculus which is watching a screen and projector of the world outside the skull. What if brain's job was to create a holographic experience, a useful fiction to help us navigate reality, and then be aware of that experience? An energetic and informatic feedback loop. In essence when you think you are looking at a computer screen, you are looking at the inside of your own mind. The map is not the territory, and a painting of a pipe is not a pipe. It's an abstraction.

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