Consciousness, the inflection upon the potential of existential being (a feedback loop) or awake awareness? Seems kind of obvious to me, so that the Universe can peer back upon and interact with itself.
Apparently, modern popular "science based" thinking finds the possibility unfashionable that all existential reality is dormant consciousness which life subjectively scopes and makes animate
Tbh, unless it's well known you don't have to bring it up. Focus on your role. One of my most exciting and most engaging opportunities went under (small multinational company), I often talk of my experiences and contributions, yet no one ever asked what happened to the company.
No one blames devs for the fate of orgs or their projects.
We do, it's called "the military" and it does not preach violence for just any reason, it is the final recourse.
Peace is not possible without the capacity for war. If you say otherwise, you deceive yourself and you have learned nothing from the history of humanity.
I am not a product of academia (though I have spent decades in self studies.)
I think of intelligence all the time. In fact, I am pushing the definition, intelligence: the mitigation of uncertainty. If it does not mitigate uncertainty, it is not intelligent.
I have to say, I barely ever compare myself with others.
There are many forms of intelligence, and I do criticize the poor language comprehension skills of ordinary people (I say there is wide spread "illiteracy", as there is a casm between capacity to read and reading capacity.
However, even the most modest person may harbor a surprising insight, experience, or intellectual gem.
Yes, focus upon tasks at hand, and don't be arrogant, for however intelligent Man is born a fool, lives his entire life a fool, and dies a fool. It is only his determination to be otherwise in between which may make it so.
I disagree with the quote and the general conception of intelligence.
The scalar nature of intelligence is more like points on a sphere than a hockey stick graph of good answers. How much area/depth of a sphere can an intelligence cover without becoming vulnerable to expectations or predisposition? All of it? I think impractical. Everything dies, everything falls apart, everything has points of failure. Even intelligence, super or not.
Intelligence (the mitigation of uncertainty) is highly dependent upon information (the removal/reduction of uncertainty), which is dependent upon context and disposition. "Why?" (And "who cares?") for instance.
Sure there is raw computing power, and some linear correlations, however life systems optimize iteratively such that precision and capacity structurally change.
A wolf's hunting strategy vs a scientist's for instance. Who is "more intelligent?" I'm sure you'll say we can hunt wolves though I would counter, mostly by superior technology, not necessarily by intelligence.
Super intelligence can be super naive (different problem domains specialize.)
Super intelligence wouldn't have the same needs as Man. Sure such could zoom off into the cosmos, though who cares? We can take our own trip in due time. Solving problems for others is no great service as self reliance is a blessing more than a curse.
Imagining a gradient where Man cannot peer merely by finite scalar capacity is not an accurate depiction of this domain.
> he continued to suffer from severe psychotic symptoms, including auditory hallucinations and religious delusions.
We are not alone in our own minds and the disembodied voices are messing with us. Just last week the nypost featured an article of a mother who murdered her own children claiming God told her to do so.
"Science based thinking" does not mean denying truth by incredulity.
Hypocrites.
Beautiful dream, though reality is yet to be tested. The greatest challenge I foresee is that effective food systems require a great deal of processing. Without an army of regular maintainers the ambition may fall to rot, pests, and inconsistent availability (unreliable.)
I myself have had this dream, and have exhausted myself on small scale projects facing similar challenges.
We are not alone in alone in our own minds. There is a secret culture, a secret governance, and a secret war upon us all. This has always been among us (one in six of us know exactly what I'm talking about, however you will be punished for speaking of this greatest taboo.) These "thought control" us, in a meddlesome immoral and lawless ways, and are responsible for much of the insanity plaguing our world.
If humanity is to mature, we must be critical and take responsibility for ourselves, particularly when the alignment of others are concerned. Such as starting by disagreeing with everything, and validate for one's own.
Play some games that interest you and model on paper how you think it could (or should) work.
As a mature intellectual returning to games later in life, I really enjoy financial and market simulators. OpenTTC, Kenshi, most 4x strategy games have crude forms. It may sound strange to others, yet simulated versions of real life complexity makes for gratifying intellectual challenge.
Or make a tiny game exhibiting some kernel of wisdom you have learned over these years.
Build yourself up to it, starting in the back of your mind.
Shit storm, if AI is trained on the moral conjectures of arm chair psychologists and philosophers.
Morality is NOT a game of virtues. Morality CANNOT BE DETERMINED by choosing who dies in a runaway railcar scenario.
The fundamental a priori of morality lies in protecting the "innocent" (inculpable) from violation.
Out technology should be prepared to fail gracefully, at every expense of itself. Not to calculate virtue point values and moderate sums. These are contrivances which do not reflect morality in any real world circumstance.
For those who don't know (the article meanders), India is more like Europe than America, until the post colonial era the individual "states" were their own countries... since the beginning of civilization. Thus their languages and culture are distinct and dissimilar in various regions.
I would like to point out this is an interesting distinction between "conscious" awake/aware and "consciousness" the inflection of our existential being.
The conscious may through consciousness completely override and reprogram the brain's low level detection circuits. Many train themselves for exactly this. Learning a language or training in martial arts can reprogram perception and reaction through determination of will (which is conducted throughout one's "consciousness" even when not "conscious".)
Peak human is the ability to wield one's own mind and body in exceptional ways.
Peak humans have existed from time to time throughout all time. There are actually many forms. We could run around and find the most superior genetic specimen for every worthy trait, or say that every fully formed and mature human has a grain of the infinity sand in their spirit, and can transform themselves to actualize any conception they are devoted enough to see through to the end.
This is called WILL TO POWER!
Power is "the capacity for effect," for if it is not effective it is not powerful.
And will, the determination of resolve.
Such may defend free will, though I believe you shall find these in bondage to their devotion.
Look for them and extol any greatness in their passing for compared to these ordinary man is a waste of his humanity.