Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2015, at 00:50, meekerdb wrote: On 6/15/2015 9:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Jun 2015, at 01:21, meekerdb wrote: On 6/10/2015 4:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 06:26, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A human is an ape which torture other apes. Not just torture but

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jun 2015, at 20:26, meekerdb wrote: On 6/10/2015 12:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 01:40, LizR wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 11:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jun 2015, at 16:44, Telmo Menezes wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 09:51, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 01:40, LizR wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 11:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Jun 2015, at 01:21, meekerdb wrote: On 6/10/2015 4:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 06:26, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A human is an ape which torture other apes. Not just torture but also eliminate, e.g. homo erectus, homo neaderthalis,... It's called evolution. You

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-15 Thread LizR
On 11 June 2015 at 16:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/10/2015 6:36 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 11:21, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/10/2015 4:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 06:26, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A human is an ape which

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-15 Thread meekerdb
On 6/15/2015 1:27 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 16:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/10/2015 6:36 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 11:21, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/10/2015 4:06 PM,

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-15 Thread meekerdb
On 6/15/2015 9:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Jun 2015, at 01:21, meekerdb wrote: On 6/10/2015 4:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 06:26, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A human is an ape which torture other apes. Not just torture but also

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-12 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Meh! I have read that some theorists now predict that dark whatever will cause a new contraction and that this is already occuring. Its the sort of thing that gets mentioned in ARIXV, and physorg.

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-11 Thread John Clark
as a pancake, whatever. And no, you need not agree, but for me it seems apparent. You? -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Jun 10, 2015 3:00 pm Subject: Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-11 Thread meekerdb
10, 2015 3:00 pm Subject: Re: super intelligence and self-sampling On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Now youare talking of Tipler's Omega Point. A usable theory when combined

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-11 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Dark energy and matter have predicted by some physicists and astronomers to call the expansion to reverse. I don't know what you're talking about. Dark Energy is causing the universe's expansion to

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-11 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-11 Thread LizR
On 12 June 2015 at 14:19, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Dark energy and matter have predicted by some physicists and astronomers to call the expansion to reverse. I don't know what

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-11 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
never seen before, awaiting the scientist. -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Jun 11, 2015 3:10 pm Subject: Re: super intelligence and self-sampling On 6/11/2015 10:47 AM, John Clark wrote

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-11 Thread LizR
On 12 June 2015 at 07:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Not that I put in credence in Tipler's speculations. They seem to be based on a comp1 style idea, namely that consciousness is generated by computation and that recreating the computation would effectively resurrect that person. I

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Jun 2015, at 01:40, LizR wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 11:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote:

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On 10 Jun 2015, at 09:51, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 01:40, LizR wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 11:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On 10 Jun 2015, at 01:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Super-intelligence is more resilient

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On 10 Jun 2015, at 01:51, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:39:37AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 08:37, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The normal answer to this is as stated - a superintelligence may form, as per various

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
intelligence and self-sampling From a quantum immortality perspective, I think if a superintelligence was merging lots of intelligences, including yours, you find yourself in increasingly unlikely situations where you were able to escape being merged with the superintelligence. Eventually, against

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
need not agree, but for me it seems apparent. You? -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Jun 10, 2015 3:00 pm Subject: Re: super intelligence and self-sampling On Wed, Jun 10, 2015

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread meekerdb
On 6/10/2015 12:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Jun 2015, at 01:40, LizR wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 11:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Now you are talking of Tipler's Omega Point. A usable theory when combined with MWI, which Tipler supports. Tipler's idea of the Omega Point was interesting in 1993 when he introduced the idea, but

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread meekerdb
On 6/10/2015 7:44 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: For the purpose of this discussion, I would say that you would only have to grant that there is some utility function that captures chances of survival. Then, super-intelligence is something that can optimize this function beyond what human

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread LizR
On 10 June 2015 at 19:05, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Do biological species follow a power law distribution? I don't know, but I imagine so - there are generally a lot more of the smaller ones. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread LizR
On 11 June 2015 at 07:21, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Yes, but there have been so much counter examples for the 1997 WMAP analysis that Tipler may end up correct. I am talking about the accelerated expansion reversing, I hold computer theory as

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread LizR
On 11 June 2015 at 10:45, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/10/2015 7:44 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: For the purpose of this discussion, I would say that you would only have to grant that there is some utility function that captures chances of survival. Then, super-intelligence is

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:04:47AM +1200, LizR wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 19:05, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Do biological species follow a power law distribution? I don't know, but I imagine so - there are generally a lot more of the smaller ones. I don't have

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread LizR
On 11 June 2015 at 06:26, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A human is an ape which torture other apes. Not just torture but also eliminate, e.g. homo erectus, homo neaderthalis,... It's called evolution. You sound like you're in favour. -- You received this message because you are

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread meekerdb
On 6/10/2015 4:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 06:26, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A human is an ape which torture other apes. Not just torture but also eliminate, e.g. homo erectus, homo neaderthalis,... It's called evolution. You

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-10 Thread meekerdb
On 6/10/2015 6:36 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 11:21, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/10/2015 4:06 PM, LizR wrote: On 11 June 2015 at 06:26, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A human is an ape

super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi everyone, Something I have been thinking about. I start with two assumptions: - Super-intelligence is more resilient than human intelligence, so it is likely to last longer (e.g. it is more likely to be able to anticipate existencial threats and prepare accordingly; it is more likely to

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Terren Suydam
Perhaps most superintelligences end up merging into one super-ego, so that their measure effectively becomes zero. Terren On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Hi everyone, Something I have been thinking about. I start with two assumptions: -

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Terren Suydam
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps most superintelligences end up merging into one super-ego, so that their measure effectively becomes zero. Perhaps, but I'm

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps most superintelligences end up merging into one super-ego, so that their measure effectively becomes zero. Perhaps, but I'm not convinced that this would reduce its measure. Consider the fact that you are no

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Super-intelligence is more resilient than human intelligence, so it is likely to last longer Maybe, but I note that smarter than average humans seem to have higher than average rates of suicide too. Mathematicians kill themselves

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Super-intelligence is more resilient than human intelligence, so it is likely to last longer Maybe, but I note that smarter than average humans seem to

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread LizR
The normal answer to this is as stated - a superintelligence may form, as per various Arthur C Clark (or Olaf Stapledon, really) stories, by merging lots of non-super intelligences. So the chances of finding yourself non-super is vastly greater, because it takes billions of us to make one of them.

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread LizR
On 10 June 2015 at 11:39, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 08:37, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The normal answer to this is as stated - a superintelligence may form, as per various Arthur C Clark (or Olaf Stapledon, really) stories, by merging lots of

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:39:37AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 08:37, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The normal answer to this is as stated - a superintelligence may form, as per various Arthur C Clark (or Olaf Stapledon, really) stories, by merging lots of

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread LizR
I was close :) -- 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 post to this group, send email to

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Terren Suydam
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:33 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2015 at 11:15, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: From a quantum immortality perspective, I think if a superintelligence was merging lots of intelligences, including yours, you find yourself in increasingly

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 10 June 2015 at 08:37, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: The normal answer to this is as stated - a superintelligence may form, as per various Arthur C Clark (or Olaf Stapledon, really) stories, by merging lots of non-super intelligences. So the chances of finding yourself non-super is vastly

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread LizR
On 10 June 2015 at 11:38, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Super-intelligence is more resilient than

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Terren Suydam
From a quantum immortality perspective, I think if a superintelligence was merging lots of intelligences, including yours, you find yourself in increasingly unlikely situations where you were able to escape being merged with the superintelligence. Eventually, against all odds, you might be the

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread LizR
On 10 June 2015 at 11:15, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: From a quantum immortality perspective, I think if a superintelligence was merging lots of intelligences, including yours, you find yourself in increasingly unlikely situations where you were able to escape being merged

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread meekerdb
On 6/9/2015 2:25 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Super-intelligence is more resilient

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Terren Suydam
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Terren Suydam

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps most superintelligences end up merging into one