God

PopeBeanie wrote:

@programminggodjordan, a couple years or so ago I was vexed by your reasoning wrt the reason/purpose for accelerating entropy. I still don’t get it. I see no explanation for why this, by itself would be desirable. This would be a good place to insert something I fundamentally believe wrt the future of AI, which is that it will b…

[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

I’m getting over two minutes of just black at 1:21, in two different browsers. Am I missing something?

That was intentional 🙂

In my videos I leave a major portion of background music in after clip is seen. Easy to cut, but I fancy listening to the duration of the music sometimes.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

It looks a bit like Pininfarina’s “Battista” concept car which I like. What is the expected capacity of the powertrain?

On the powertrain comment, I haven’t gotten that far yet. Now the goal is to simply build out a prototype that just moves, but crucially looks exactly as I designed in the 3d programs.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
It looks a bit like Pininfarina’s “Battista” concept car which I like. What is the expected capacity of the powertrain?

Most supercars have similar profile/design, although I think Dio’s offerings are somewhat unique.

Maybe my design is not as aggressive as the Bugatti Bolide, or as smooth as something like [Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I think people confuse the terms “Purpose” and “Meaning”. I see all life on Earth as random creations. Be it a jellyfish, a beetle or a human,, we are all just “lucky” to be alive given the odds of any one particular member of a species being born in the first place (something Dawkins also mentioned). That leads…

[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

I just don’t see how the creation of AI fits into any context, other than what’s invented by human beings, or perhaps other biologically evolved intelligent life in the universe.

1. Consider the image in reply #7497 above.

2. Given the reasonable connection between intelligence and entropy maximization, my hypothesis argu…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

I just don’t see how the creation of AI fits into any context, other than what’s invented by human beings, or perhaps other biologically evolved intelligent life in the universe.

1. I don’t have a hypothesis for what may happen after AGI is created by humans, so I merely hypothesize on what humans’ objective may reasonably be,…

[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

I see a lot of use of words like “purpose” and “objective”, in a way that makes them sound like good things, in spite of the possibility or probability that humans may just die off because of them, ala “that’s just the way it is, folks”. You’re right that the word “purpose” isn’t only owned and deployed by religion. Still, purp…

[Read more]

Bellen wrote:

@programminggodjordan I’m sorry but I don’t see the connection. The explanations just aren’t meshing for me. AI is a human invention. In the same was as we discovered fire, and then discovered the wheel…honestly the invention of the wheel was really IMHO the pivotal point of our evolution as far as being able to invent things…

[Read more]

Zweifel wrote:

Yes – one day AI could regard us in much the same way as we regard algae. (Except we won’t be playing a significant role in the food chain.)

Probably, yes.

Davis wrote:

There is no purpose to life. We are a sack of cells which are obsessively and endlessly replicating their particular “code”. Anything more than that…is secondary…besides the point (including the emergence of emotional creatures, cooperative animals and intelligent mankind). I think you should be extremely careful with the term “p…

[Read more]

Brendan wrote:

On the other hand, if you read The Selfish Gene, you will understand how our genes have their own plans for us 🙂

1.) I don’t detect that Richard Dawkins’ early “Selfish Gene” (1976) article is incompatible with the OP; for Dawkins did not constrain genes to ultimately remain organic. (In fact…[Read more]

Brendan wrote:

Why on earth do you think it’s necessary for life to have a “purpose”? That’s about as sensible an idea as those who ask “why do wasps exist?”. The creating of AI has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with our existence or otherwise. Man has been developing tools since prehistory, and these tools have become extraordina…

[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I get what you are saying about AI and humans. There will certainly be a “merging” with technology. This is already happening in various forms. We are already storing data within DNA and quantum computing at the level of the electron is certainly on the way. I would love to get this as my next tattoo.

Note that as des…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I do not think it is “life’s purpose” as Evolution is not goal orientated

1. Regardless of evolution, there are entropy maximization phenomena, which the OP discusses, and things appear to tend to maximize entropy, especially intelligent things. (i.e. The purpose or reason for things to exist, is in the regim…

[Read more]