i suspect that to fully understand the universe, we need AGI in a similar way to needing a telescope to understand galaxies our unaided faculties are not good enough, and we need better tools--or in this case, smarter tools--to help us make sense of reality

Jul 27, 2022 · 6:08 PM UTC

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also, i think AGI is probably necessary for humanity to survive--our problems seem too big to solve for us to solve without better tools :( it's always hard to think about what tools will enable, but i cannot begin to imagine what we'll be able to achieve with the help of AGI
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@rattibha screenshot this
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Is there a particular example that comes to mind?
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The AGI may understand the universe, but we'll be too stupid to understand the AGI. It'll be like worms contemplating aircraft design.
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No AI is just an extension of (y)our fundamentally inefficient (linear) means of apprehending the universe; it will only make it more intricate, but will never actually lucidify it
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The absolute only way to progress on the Kardashev Scale is to harness A.I., it is imperative that we advance it and coexist with it.
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I don't think any entity can "fully" understand all of reality. But better tools will certainly help us in creating progressively (and perhaps dramatically) better models of it
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I agree, we are too biased. We thought the earth was flat, thought the planets circled us, so many other examples. The universe probably has a few variables we can’t even recognize, agi probably could.
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By “we”, you mean in the same way the child of a nuclear physicist understands quantum theory.
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The only logical deductions: WE r AI. The AI we build will build other AI that can gather and utilize even more data; and can then build more simmies. The real “solution” is getting out of this loop.
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One such tool is biobanking, if you have any interest in your own fleeting, human franchise in this, our earthly heaven. humanism.substack.com/p/geni…
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