[FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

Prof David West profwest at fastmail.fm
Thu Dec 12 15:01:56 EST 2024


6) Human life span is too limited to consume all available media.* [Twisting glen's ideas about 'context' - no need to consume, all media is already part of the mind-context whole. See also, "enlightenment and omniscience."]*

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024, at 1:04 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
>> Seems there are good reasons to replace humans.
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>> 1) Humans can’t easily travel to new planets due to radiation and hostile environments.
>> 2) Our appetite for energy is vast and our decadence unbounded.  A rising standard of living for all humans will accelerate this due to increased demands for fossil fuels.
>> 3) At least in the United States, our education system is not serving the whole of the population effectively, leading to the election of people that make our problems worse.____
>> 4) We can’t cooperate to solve or even identify real problems.
>> 5) AI seems to be successfully harvesting human knowledge and extending it, e.g. AlphaFold.____
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> 6) Human life span is too limited to consume all available media.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries are stories about a self aiming gun turret who discovers a wider world and gets confused by it.
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