On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 1:49 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> An interesting comparison. But it avoids the obvious lesson. > There was a smooth evolutionary landscape leading to homo sapiens. What > happened was that homo sapiens killed off all the near competitors, * You may be right but you don't paint a very optimistic picture, if true it suggests that Homo sapiens will not have a long future. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> sxr "It intuitively feels like lemurs, gibbons, chimps, and homo erectus were > all more or less just monkey-like things plus or minus the ability to wave > sharp sticks - and then came homo sapiens, with the potential to build > nukes and travel to the moon. In other words, there wasn’t a smooth > evolutionary landscape, there was a discontinuity where a host of new > capabilities became suddenly possible. Once AI crosses that border, we > should expect to be surprised by how much more powerful it becomes." > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1qiYzMXF7QFn9VsW59E96ucjT-0fb9QH-w6EA1Ahg5tA%40mail.gmail.com.
