On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 2:30 AM justcamel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ram Dass > Ram Dass was a clever man. Some more Slavs: -- Kardashev scale -- Stanisław Lem wrote a book on the singularity, which I eagerly poured over, waiting for a great revelation. I think I finally found a few thrilling sentences. Unfortunately, he spent most of the 250 pages trying to explain what a robot was to peasants who had never seen anything more mechanized than a plow and a butter churn. I think both Kardashev and Lem talk about the universe waking up and becoming self-conscious. I'm thinking both von Neumann and Feynman also said as much, on those rare occasions when they talked about AGI. Then there is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Omega Point ... which is just the AGI singularity, explained differently. Lord knows how many others have taken this and elaborated it to great detail. Its popular. One common simplified version is "all is one, we are all Gods(err, "the same God"), God is inside of us, we are all just shards of God", and of course "we are one great quantum superposition which is God". The most wonderfully-wonderful exploration of the "we are all God" (and what is terribly wrong with that idea) that I've read is https://meaningness.com Caution - its maybe a thousand pages long so if you dive in from the beginning, you'll get swamped. Here is a page from the middle (a good place to start!), it is absolutely fun to read: https://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown -- Linas -- cassette tapes - analog TV - film cameras - you ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2bfbfce3f854b951-M1bd2993fa360287cf6671c87 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
