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Reminded me of The Last Question: https://physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

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An old favorite! Intent here was to ground an AI in the real world but still an old favorite.

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Yea, for sure. My mind goes in 100 different directions when reading up on topics like "Algorithmic Instruction" (my interpretation of what it actually is).

They wrote for a moonshot mythos (understandable as it was in the 1950s), yours is for getting humanity to actually understand and better utilize what we have come up with.

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I’m terrible at staying on top of comments here, apologies. I’m trying to envision a future basically where we have a set of feedback loops where we are able to be stable and advance at the speed of our understanding and not destroy ourselves.

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This is terrifying and wonderful in equal turns. It does make me wonder, even with rudimentary AI, what kinds of burdens we will be placing on them, without the thought of "Hey, this may actually be a consciousness; shouldn't we think about that?".

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I think we are probably pretty far from that, thankfully, but the closer we come the more grossed out I am by the whole “humans deny the pain of necessary growth” memes I see in these circles.

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