Welcome to the Singularity!
Paralleling Technological Singularity and Buddhist Enlightenment:
https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/before-and-after-enlightenment
A version of the above that really stuck to me included the phrase:
"the only difference between after enlightenment and before
enlightenment is the awareness that you have always been enlightened!"
To recognize we are "on the cusp" of the Singularity is to recognize
that we (modern humans, hominids, vertebrates, multicellular life, life
itself, self-organizing matter ?) have always been (somewhere) on the
cusp of a Singularity?
To channel SteveG, we have always been on a least-action path, what does
it change (internally) when we recognize such?
mumble,
Steve
How do we even measure the derivatives of the change in
multiple/compounded domains (like computational
hardware/software/applications crossed with terrestrial/air/space
transportation which can be decomposed into yet other critical
technologies (power management, sensors, navigation, control systems)?
The current impact of "supply chain failures" seems to open the door
to another layer of logistics ML/AI which seems like a critical
stepwise move toward global scale AI that transcends any
human/corporate/national oversight and takes on a "life of it's own".
I haven't tracked Musk's analysis/critique of AI lately but as the
biggest target (squashable bug) for a global-scale emergent AI, he
would seem to be an obvious individual human/company victim of an AI
"leveraging" him out of the picture or into the biggest tool in the
box? By some measure it seems he already is? I can't tell if his ego
allows him to recognize this or if it requires it of him? Trying to
squirt himself across space to Mars before it catches up with him?
How DO you close that door behind you well enough to keep HAL from
following you (stowaway)?
I think plenty of people (e.g. Gil's Gamers, MAGA-heads, the
non/working poor, Millenials, etc) are already being ground up by "the
system" which is just getting bigger/faster/smarter. I don't mean to
project consciousness onto this amoeba-like emergent Leviathan
(Hobbes), just a higher-order of organization as alluded to in the
OOE/ALife work like this:
Cultural Evolution and OOE
<https://openended.protolife.org/t/evolved-open-endedness-in-cultural-evolution/1422>
OOE <https://openended.protolife.org/>
Designing Computational Substrates using Open-Ended Evolution
<https://watermark.silverchair.com/isal_a_00294.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAs0wggLJBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK6MIICtgIBADCCAq8GCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMXbd_0vI3nAzg9Tp-AgEQgIICgPPbNYo3j8us8tRa1uhLime9JEAh0_FdLiu_jgdernc7Phy1d93OmrA2MQBd1eDcP_HEI5rbhnaaY2eUDWoWsQJAVnT6vNL6GNzE3DZc8PmI0w2a4teNYxuWJhzf1Rid_FwKS-jyeGgYiMcVqhaaEUuN5vhAgH4LwXIBqhwOVNDYmSm3lYZW9eQYQ8wwGGdGB8vCxUCyBFPbralxNFBrqn6JAhkYp8HPfAF01r93Utznf5Xd2RHG5dSpKyRtaVFk-00zHIEEjbNu0DkZVBdLCx-xHpy7Dfywa7kKbB2YurtmwRfghu-eJPo_efWcIULbU7p9UQ4lOJypjzenJ4s-meCXS-SKV1zsoeiLEWpaQKr4BJWt2xhA0YLyh-oOhsq8QpQfZgXrOrTHAnbPjzFJRZZcOI-JZPQBVRr2fNMsyL5Lgo6_9VeA7QEXncfs8WnlqBOgTFM5nxwKdSJaKMB23oBCwcI4aCSE47oWxTmfmKDFpNQdvUPVuylumn8KOsuz4qHS8Yq89atYDBreYQaaEgJ6yIQteseEA4wdt7qehwfPpZi2cm18-nzngQDX8tdk0UQRKM6g0pJfx0Cgmq95Clqe8Fekd1QM4BUA1mJH-ZAQVCDascV294nTLIrXjaD-ZjeucmMSrVPsDnZdE0-Oa2nwRRASWO7s7xlX7HEqdZYRmb7NYvEh0Y71vO2HcgFEhOi-8w8l-kJIqzzzNu6vzDHShU6cYU4opilGsbKJjrqrNjE8ZWzoudu957bEuthyKDvGQ9ZGt_pUd2phCQXXKZrvmccyWdNo1W9OOl9iRkkZMu0TsmQaCxU1Iw6K5ElDYWzKbzb0mJ9y3ZtCfExgbKY>
I think all of this entertwines/weaves with a couple of our other
threads here... I can barely keep up with reading (often skimming)
most of them, much less having deeper thoughts about them much less
doing significant analysis (re EricS acknowledgement) of any of it.
On 1/21/22 9:56 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
It is unbelievable to me the resources Tesla is expending on machine
learning and automatic driving. They've transcended GPUs (12,000
wasn't enough) and are designing their own chips for custom
supercomputers now.
https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=6324
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*Subject:* [FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to get parts
https://www.windowscentral.com/roughly-25-graphics-cards-went-crypto-miners-and-speculators-first-quarter-2021-according-report
TLDR: GPU's get used in a lot of places. I didn't know tesla used
them for tensor processing. Or they needed tensor flow processing at
all. Would that be for the self driving mode? Anyway: a big kvech in
gaming cercles: no parts to get even /needed /part replacements since
a lot is in the hands of crypto minners, or just available. I'll give
this a bit of a bullwhip rating.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/06/19/crypto-miners-are-probably-to-blame-for-the-graphics-chip-shortage
as well
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