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<p>Welcome to the Singularity! <br>
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<p>Paralleling Technological Singularity and Buddhist Enlightenment:</p>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/before-and-after-enlightenment">https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/before-and-after-enlightenment</a></p>
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<p>A version of the above that really stuck to me included the
phrase:</p>
<p> "the only difference between after enlightenment and before
enlightenment is the awareness that you have always been
enlightened!"</p>
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<p>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?</p>
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<p>To channel SteveG, we have always been on a least-action path,
what does it change (internally) when we recognize such?<br>
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<p>mumble, <br>
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<p> Steve<br>
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<p>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)?</p>
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<p>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".</p>
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<p>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)?<br>
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<p>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:</p>
<p> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://openended.protolife.org/t/evolved-open-endedness-in-cultural-evolution/1422">Cultural
Evolution and OOE</a><br>
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<p> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://openended.protolife.org/">OOE</a><br>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="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">
Designing Computational Substrates using Open-Ended Evolution</a></p>
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<p>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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/21/22 9:56 PM, Marcus Daniels
wrote:<br>
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font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> 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
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 21, 2022 8:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
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<b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to
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<div><a
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<div>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 <i>needed </i>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. <br>
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<div><a
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