This comes from a group chat.
okay guys
and ladies, of course
so I’ve been doing this thing called lifelogging
basically the idea is to collect as much data about your life as you can to optimize it and create a record and such
This essay is in response to
The End Is A.I.: The Singularity Is Sci-Fi’s Faith-Based Initiative.
In futurist circles there’s the idea of the Singularity, a point in time when artificial intelligence grows so intelligent that it can make itself even more intelligent, causing it to rapidly surpass human intelligence.
To think of a human as a physical body is completely backward.
Humans are not bodies. Humans are minds. Humans are technology.
When you pick up a rock and use it as a hammer, it’s mind that’s doing that. When you use Google to tap the intelligence of the Internet, it’s mind doing that.
I believe minds are strange loops: level-crossing feedback loops. My understanding is that they are systems that edit how they edit themselves.
This post is about self-improving artificial intelligences, which I believe are strange loops.