Been watching bit of the TV show. The first episode ("pilot") has part of
David Bowies Fame. Ooh no! you'll say. And is that stuck in your head? well
sort of.
I feel like i've heard the starting guitar and drum bit that loops through
that somewhere else. TV show or another song.
Any guesses where
Thank you for this article. Subject matter related to quantum fields,
the Schwinger effect and the Casimir effect are very much where my mind has
been lately. I continue an attempt to reconcile recent thoughts on the
different candidate GUTs, the resolution of infinite contributions of
virtual part
Given the how normal extreme inequality is, probably the they/us distinction is
already happening. Technology could accelerate it, though. Some people will
have direct and indirect cognitive assists, some will have designer babies and
some won’t, etc. Over a few generations we might not reall
Responding first to Marcus point:
"I think there will be a transition toward a more advanced form of
life, but I don’t think there will be a clear connection between how
they think and how humans think. Human culture won’t be important
to how they scale, but may be relevant to a boot
70-year-old quantum prediction comes true, as something is created from nothing
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/something-from-nothing/
It seems like this is another example where the arrogance of the abstraction
reigns. Because the math relating holes and electrons is the same (?) as th
I do see us trying to identify the distinguishing markers of ... "cognition we can't
imagine". That's fantastic. I'll try to collate some of them going backwards from
Marcus':
- novelty - dissimilarity from "cognition as we know it"
- graded separation from human culture/sociality
- simulation
