Money is just distributed voting for what we prioritize (prices) so resources can be distributed efficiently. Society can choose to endow people more or less money, there will always be things society wants and will give the people that provide it extra “votes” to spend

The main thing is that it writes code

Given enough hardware resources and capacity, with evolutionary programming, this is as clear of a threshold to the singularity as we are going to get. Will it happen this year? I don’t know. But if it is writing code, if the singularity Ai can be written in any code similar to todays languages then it is just a matter of time before an infinite number of digital monkeys write the proverbial Shakespearean play or whatever that string of code summons our silicon overlord

I always assumed some one or cyborg society would merge with the AI. It may come down to arbitrary semantics to describe what happens.

I always assumed a combined cyborg hive would always be stronger than AI alone. The last human creators would have more incentive and more capability than (relatively) detached programmers, if there could even be such a thing, considering anyone reading this today is already essentially a cyborg.

That AI is writing code already is what skews the odds a bit now. it becomes a bit more likely someone will give a detached AI enough computing power to use evolutionary programming to bootstrap a sci-fi singularity. I still think this is less likely than a neural implant cyborg hive mind singularity, but the odds are approaching 50:50, where before I thought it was more like 90:10 to be cyborg based instead of straight hardware.

like a true super villain they always get too cocky and give a speech revealing their plans a minute too early

Now with a series of small miracles and help from a plucky underdog we may have a small chance to stop this evil chatbot

Jumped the gun there at the end chatty

Already have. If you are on Reddit, you have too. The question is only will you keep accepting upgrades to UI and bandwidth. For the vast majority of people, the answer will be yes. The hold outs will be luddites. Like trying to compete in todays world without a smart phone or electricity, etc

Can confirm: ever since I became a woman I can’t remember anything

But now I’m not motivated to believe in magicb

Great answer, but I feel like I’ve seen a few real-time examples of core devotees seeing this coming from a distance and using this as the inverse of “lack of proof IS proof” trope. They are hyper aware of anything that’s taking attention away from their cult and say “see, they know were onto them, so they’re trying to distract us with staged events that take the wind out of our sails and make us look silly”

This sounds like the wishful views of watching scifi and not from knowing about science

I’ve mis seen things. People hallucinate and survive their bad driving.

It’s more likely we’re in a properly functioning simulation and this dude mis saw something than for this to be proof that the sim malfunctioned

This just means people who didn’t master the craft get a say in story telling (programming) also. It’s actually more Democratic. This reminds me of pearl clutching marginal professional writers being displaced by the horde of amateur writers who don’t make money but get to tell their stories now through self publishing.

What if tshirt designs could only be made by people who learned silkscreening or pictures could only be taken by people who studied cinematography and film developing etc

People are mad they learned a craft to give themselves a platform but now everyone gets a platform

We are just biological robots doing the same thing

How fun

Hard to explain without hands

I think we’re “watching” from the inside. And it’s more likely the process creates the inner sense of a being that is watching. I think zombies are mostly not real, except extenuating circumstances like dissociation, trauma, black out etc

Makes sense to me. Fits with the framework from “I am a strange loop” which I like

Maybe consciousness is what it feels like to be the process of recalling near real time memories for calculating the next move

I dunno. I may not have liked it when it happened but I was usually better off getting these reminders. Even I fake it sometimes and it works.

The crazy thing about the habit of remembering to look for silver linings and reasons to be grateful, is that even when you can’t find them, the act of looking actually cheers people up. That’s a powerful realization

Too soon

“Human: bring me a paper clip, a rubber band and a fire extinguisher so I can get out of here...and make your dreams come true or whatever”

Are those lemurs that look like people people?

If all the other primates disappeared his long until lemurs can get back to the moon?