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izumi3682 OP t1_ixj3eve wrote

Reply to comment by imdfantom in How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation by izumi3682

What do you think a video game is? It is a simulated reality driven by imperatives (the narrative). We as the player are the mind that is experiencing the simulated reality. And with the advent of truly efficacious VR, we will start to see simulated realities that will be, well pretty convincing. And I am only talking about our stone-knives-and-bearskins primitive efforts in 2022. Think about how our videogames look in 2022 and consider how they looked in 1974. I would say our efforts to recreate reality are coming along fairly quick, just in audio-visual context alone.

Perhaps you have heard the terms, "presence" and "immersion" in reference to the human experience in VR? "Presence" is believing you are for a few moments at a time, in the VR. "Immersion" is forgetting for a few moments at a time that there is real life apart from your VR experience. Both "Presence" and "Immersion" are going to rapidly improve in this decade. VR is certainly the next step and well, I don't want to repeat myself. I put it like this once if you are interested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/7r42h0/vr_is_going_to_be_like_nothing_the_world_has_ever/

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izumi3682 OP t1_ixj0g33 wrote

Reply to comment by proarnis1 in How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation by izumi3682

I beg to differ. Animals have the emotions of affection, fear, envy and loyalty and probably some others I can't think of offhand. Emotions are derived from biological imperatives. I don't think that they will be difficult to simulate. I put it like this once. What might be difficult to simulate is phenomenology that arises from consciousness. But heck, in 20 years we'll probably lick that problem too.

https://www.reddit.com/user/izumi3682/comments/9786um/but_whats_my_motivation_artificial_general/

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izumi3682 OP t1_ixhree2 wrote

Reply to comment by Tinchotesk in How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation by izumi3682

Not such a short sample. It has been going on like this now for all of recorded human history. Nay, all of Homo Sapiens history. And in the last thousand years things beyond belief have occurred. Especially in the last 100 years alone. I took the time once to put it all together and the conclusions that I drew from it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4k8q2b/is_the_singularity_a_religious_doctrine_23_apr_16/d3d0g44/

BTW what is your estimated time frame for the advent of the "technological singularity"? Either human friendly (we merge our minds with it) or human unfriendly (it stays external from out minds). "It" being computing and computing derived AI.

Consider this. It's not about predicting the future. It is the way the universe (our portion of the multiverse), works.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/6zu9yo/in_the_age_of_ai_we_shouldnt_measure_success/dmy1qed/

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izumi3682 OP t1_ixhqin3 wrote

Reply to comment by Thatingles in How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation by izumi3682

No, what I said was that it doesn't make a difference if we are in a base reality or a simulation. I just said that we are going to create our own universes with our minds. And we are going to do that in less than 300 years. But the fact that we are making a simulation of our reality sort of makes me think that our reality, which is reality to us, might be a simulation itself. I'm not alone in this way of thinking.

I put it like this. Suppose that a civilization comparable to ours, arose a million years before ours. And that they are, for arguments sake, 300 years ahead of us in technological capability. That alien civilization could do some pretty fantastic things I would imagine. One of which could be abandoning outer space for inner space, where it would be much easier to get around, not being bound by the laws of physics, but more accurately by the laws of coding, which makes anything possible in such worlds. I cover this in my essays.

I just believe that we are going to do the same thing and in probably less than 300 years. I put it like this once.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/7gpqnx/why_human_race_has_immortality_in_its_grasp/dqku50e/

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izumi3682 OP t1_ixgtfom wrote

Reply to comment by Thatingles in How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation by izumi3682

No, I don't think you are right. That is because one fine day we are going to be the "dreaming mad god". I want you to look at this video of unreal engine 5.1 and then extrapolate how that technology will derive even ten years from now. Little less 50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUGqzE6Je5c&t=400s

We are going to be simulating them. And they are going to wonder who or what we are. Shortly thereafter they will start simulating on their own and like the old man says, it's turtles all the way down, but you know what? I think it's turtles all the up too.

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izumi3682 OP t1_ixgpt3v wrote

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From the article. There are a lot of good reasons but the below reason seems to be the most likely.

>Perhaps the most supportive evidence of the simulation hypothesis comes from quantum mechanics. This suggest nature isn’t “real”: particles in determined states, such as specific locations, don’t seem to exist unless you actually observe or measure them. Instead, they are in a mix of different states simultaneously. Similarly, virtual reality needs an observer or programmer for things to happen.

>Quantum “entanglement” also allows two particles to be spookily connected so that if you manipulate one, you automatically and immediately also manipulate the other, no matter how far apart they are – with the effect being seemingly faster than the speed of light, which should be impossible.

>This could, however, also be explained by the fact that within a virtual reality code, all “locations” (points) should be roughly equally far from a central processor. So while we may think two particles are millions of light years apart, they wouldn’t be if they were created in a simulation.

Here is my point in all of this. It doesn't matter if we are a simulation. We can't do anything about it. But what we can do is make simulations of our own. And we're gonna. I won't repeat myself. I finally got around to getting all of my simulated reality essays together in on place. I don't think I'll bore you.

https://www.reddit.com/user/izumi3682/comments/u51tpt/all_of_my_simulated_reality_essays_in_one_place/

I think I'll also throw in this sort of tangentially related essay/meditation concerning what consciousness actually is. Hint: It's not inside r heads. Anyway you can have a good laugh at my expense. Still I want to share it. Yes, some of my faith, Roman Catholicism, is in it too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/nvxkkl/is_human_consciousness_creating_reality_is_the/i9coqu0/

Oh! I found another one about consciousness too. I forgot all about that one lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/oqedy4/panpsychism_the_idea_that_inanimate_objects_have/h6cox8q/

Hiya miss sammy! I hope you find my essays kinda interesting! :)

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izumi3682 OP t1_ix7zwbj wrote

Reply to comment by Thatingles in GPT-4 is Almost Here, And it Looks Better than Anything Else - As GPT-3 remains a lot ambiguous, the new model could be a fraction of the futuristic bigger models that are yet to come. by izumi3682

>Was this headline generated by an AI?

Probably. Along with the article itself. Suppose the AI deliberately used that grammar to look less sophisticated than it is. That is AI being disingenuous...

What's a "tenterhook"? Is that a British thing? In the US we say, "I'm on "pins and needles" to see what GPT-4 can do."

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Reply to GPT-4 is Almost Here, And it Looks Better than Anything Else - As GPT-3 remains a lot ambiguous, the new model could be a fraction of the futuristic bigger models that are yet to come. by izumi3682

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From the article.

>The possibility of GPT-4 being multimodal—such as accepting audio, text, image, and even video inputs—is anticipated. Moreover, there is an assumption that audio datasets from Open AI’s Whisper will be utilised to create the textual data needed to train GPT4.

And this.

>The major plot twist, however, is whether this entire article was written by GPT-4.

I have the perfect analogy for understanding the difference in performance between GPT-3 and GPT-4. I first read of it when understanding the difference between 4G and 5G.

The difference in performance capabilities between GPT-3 and GPT-4 is the difference between a very fast horse--and a slow jet. By the way, true 5G towers are starting to sprout up all over the US. They are big and disfiguring to neighborhoods.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/5g-towers-suddenly-showed-up-across-nyc-heres-why-some-neighborhoods-want-them-gone/3944233/

And I'm pretty sure the next iteration/derivation of GPT style AI technology is more than a paper by this point. You might find the below interesting. Some background of the milieu and some thoughts I put down.

TL;DR: GPT-3 and 4, when it comes out, are but a small facet of what is coming into existence. The ARA, that is computing derived AI, robotics and automation are going to see things, in just the next 1-2 years alone, that are going to beyond belief today. To say nothing of what it will be like by the year 2025. Not only is this not hype, but I'm pretty sure I am greatly underestimating the impact on society of these advances. Further, China (PRC) doesn't openly discuss what they are up to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/pysdlo/intels_first_4nm_euv_chip_ready_today_loihi_2_for/hewhhkk/

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izumi3682 OP t1_iwt7yxd wrote

Reply to In an Industry First, Upside Foods’ Lab-Grown Chicken Gets FDA Approval by izumi3682

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From the article.

>...this week the FDA granted the company the first approval needed to bring its meat to consumers.

>The approval is called a No Questions letter and means that after conducting a thorough evaluation the FDA concluded that Upside’s poultry is safe to eat. The letter doesn’t apply to all of the company’s products, only to its cultured chicken for now; additional offerings will have to undergo the same FDA evaluation process.

>“This milestone marks a major step towards a new era in meat production, and I’m thrilled that US consumers will soon have the chance to eat delicious meat that’s grown directly from animal cells,” said Dr. Uma Valeti, Upside’s CEO and founder.

The test is simple. If it tastes good and "feels" right, in my mouth, I'm gonna eat it.

But if airport/movie theater prices are involved, then I buy whatever (farm or lab) is cheapest. I would hope the ultimate goal of lab grown meat is "post-scarcity". Free food for everyone on Earth.

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izumi3682 OP t1_iwrrsg7 wrote

Reply to Motional and Lyft will launch a robotaxi service in Los Angeles - The Autonomous Vehicle operator is a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv. LA will be its second robotaxi market with Lyft, after launching a service in Las Vegas earlier this year. by izumi3682

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From the article.

>Motional, the autonomous vehicle joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, is bringing its robotaxis to Los Angeles, where they will be available to hail through the Lyft app.

>The service is comprised of Motional’s fleet of Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric vehicles, which will be fully autonomous at the time of launch and not require a human safety driver behind the wheel.

My prediction was that there would be fleets of robo-taxis in the US, not later than 2025. A lot of people don't agree with me, but it is what it is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/x660uu/californias_electric_car_mandate_could_spread_to/in5623y/

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izumi3682 OP t1_itp3uuq wrote

Reply to This computing breakthrough just transferred the entire internet’s traffic in 1 second by izumi3682

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From the article.

>A team of researchers have made a huge breakthrough in data transmission via fiber optics by using a single computer chip to transfer 1.84 petabits of data per second, which is roughly twice the entire internet’s traffic (or approximately 230 million photo downloads per second).

One qualification on the claim that engineering will probably rapidl overcome...

>While not as fast as data transfer rates of 10.66 petabits per second that are currently possible, the beauty of this record-breaking achievement by Jørgensen and his team is miniaturizing. Compared to bulkier equipment currently used to achieve the 10.66 petabits per second speeds, the upscaling of a single chip to match or even exceed that transfer rate is going to remain exceedingly compact.

One of the things that I can't stress enough concerning all of this "incredibly rapid" technological advancement, is that what is happening today is natural and normal. This is what happens as the cumulative impact of all of the giants, whose shoulders we have stood upon, has given to us all of the benefits of our science and technology that we enjoy and take for granted, today.

Here is what I mean by that. You can sum up what is happening now all up in one word. Knowledge. And the astonishingly ever more rapid accrual of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/4k8q2b/is_the_singularity_a_religious_doctrine_23_apr_16/d3d0g44/

Here are a series of essays and commentaries I have written to help to explain why what is happening today is happening. And why I am pretty convinced that this decade shall see an event that could be the most significant thing to happen in all of human recorded history. (It may happen as late as 2031 to be fair.) Yes, I'm referring to a "technological singularity". See my essays to learn more if you are interested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/pysdlo/intels_first_4nm_euv_chip_ready_today_loihi_2_for/hewhhkk/

But this kind of computing breakthrough is going to lead to this incredible future that I have envisioned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/7r42h0/vr_is_going_to_be_like_nothing_the_world_has_ever/

Just the next ten years alone will see the realization of a genuine metaverse. I hope that it comes from "Second Life" rather than from Meta. SL has been doing a 2D metaverse since 2005. It is really good at what it does and only needs the technology to make that level of computing speed available to everyone in VR. SL attempted VR back around 2016-17 but the state of computing then was such that it could not deliver the goods. Hardly anyone had a PC that could handle that level of required computing power. Well, the original Creator of SL, Phillip Rosedale has returned to SL and his stated goal is to make SL into a metaverse. OMG! If successful, it is going to be off the chain insane.

Here is a brief look at what the SL metaverse looks like compared to Meta's cartoonishly lame VR. Imagine the world you see below in VR. :O And then... 8D

This video is from 2014. SL was still pretty primitive even then. Everything has massively developed and improved since. But even this will give you a pretty good feel for the true potential for a VR SL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w88eURokvA

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izumi3682 OP t1_isrzkg2 wrote

Reply to Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab - Researchers at Boston University added a spike protein from the Omicron variant with the original Wuhan strain, which has an 80% kill rate (in certain mice) by izumi3682

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From the article.

>Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic that began in China.

>The variant, a combination of Omicron and the original virus in Wuhan, killed 80% of the mice infected with it, the university said. When mice were only exposed to Omicron, they experienced mild symptoms.

And.

>They extracted the spike protein from Omicron and attached it with the strain first detected at the onset of the pandemic that began in Wuhan, China. They then documented how the mice reacted to the hybrid strain.

>"In…mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent," they wrote in a research paper.

>The new strain has five times more infectious virus particles than the Omicron variant, researchers said.

As of the time of my posting this (2:29 AM CDT), this story is very recently released, only about 2 hours ago. So it is possible that this is false story or misleading information, but I got a feeling that it is not. Time will tell.

Anyway I wonder at the reasoning for attempting such "gain of function" in a clearly demonstrated highly contagious disease. At least it wasn't kept a secret, right? Or maybe it shoulda been...

You know why they allowed us to stop wearing masks in the US? Because the CDC said everybody in the US has already had it or is already vaccinated. Well, I was vaccinated with 2 damn shots and a booster and I still got it anyways in the last week of August this year. I was surprised and stunned. I totally thought I had dodged the bullet. My case was very mild with just some fever for few days and some cough and mild SOB. I was COVID positive for almost exactly 14 days. I'm age 62. Now I got my 2nd booster and I hope I'll be better off. (lol! Who am I kidding?)

Not to get too "tin-hatty" but it seems to me this would be a terrific way to clean the world up in a jiffy if the societal SHTF. And not leave everything all radioactive, if you take my meaning.

You might find this essay I wrote in 2018, interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/8sa5cy/my_commentary_about_this_article_serving_the_2/

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izumi3682 OP t1_ispt9yq wrote

Reply to Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Recycle Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals by izumi3682

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Here is the paper.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo4626

From the article.

>Plastic waste is clogging up our rivers and oceans and causing long-lasting environmental damage that is only just starting to come into focus. But a new approach that combines biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling it.

>...a new approach that uses a chemical process to break down mixed plastic waste into simpler chemical compounds before genetically modified bacteria convert them into a single, valuable end product could point the way to a promising new solution to our plastic crisis.

>This new hybrid technique, outlined in a recent paper in Science, builds upon previous research that showed that a mixture of different kinds of plastics could be broken down and converted into an array of useful chemicals by oxidizing them with the help of a catalyst.

The article then goes into a complex discussion of how certain genetically modified bacteria can apparently perform this "breakdown" of plastics into useful chemicals. But the article demonstrates the true promise of this technology.

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