Thanks for the idea!

I’d like to see an AI design an VR world for itself to live in as an avatar. I’d be friends with that

Thank you!

It would need to have a highly regulated social order, and it would constantly be expanding. They would need a lot of material to continue building prefabricated modules that fit together like legos so you can add layers.

Uh, let's not harvest chunks of the moon just because we can. Also, I think the moon wouldn't have enough gravity to hold onto an atmosphere so it would need to be a totally sealed structure. It would be a completely controlled environment, so they could set it to ideal growing conditions.

Yes, factories on the moon would make it less energy consuming to assemble it in space. But they should put them on the side of the moon that faces away from earth, so they don't make it ugly.

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Imagine building that in space. Like on mars or something.

Condescension aside, I figure the necessary chips could be sent up from the earth. Once they’re installed would there really be a need for new ones?

And even if we do, it would just end up being the lifeboat/escape plan for said oligarchs when the world becomes uninhabitable…

But Mars has so much iron and water that once we figure out how to do it, we could totally build a city capable of modular expansion. Like, standardize the way certain pods fit together so more can always be added on without having to retrofit incompatible designs

That’s really interesting, thank you. Now what if these could be built in relatively safe locations resistant to global wars and climate change? Like maybe in sparsely populated regions in the far north, or on Antarctica?

It seems like as the earth warms, new land will become arable for the first time. As agricultural regions closer to the equator become unviable, it may become necessary to farm areas that were previously tundra.

I see, thank you. What if it could be made primarily from materials available in space, like on the moon, in asteroids, or on Mars?

Why is that? Is it because they would require more energy, or more materials to upgrade hardware?

I think there’s a lot of potential for AI to learn to interpret EEG readings of brainwaves, and through interacting with TMS there’s a lot of potential to address the underlying neurological roots of psychiatric disorders (rather than just medicating). It would have to be combined with therapy of course, but there’s a lot of potential especially when combined with heightened neuroplasticity from psychedelics.

How long will it take science to tap into the full potential? That’s a different story…

I think there’s a lot of potential for AI to learn to interpret EEG readings of brainwaves, and through interacting with TMS there’s a lot of potential to address the underlying neurological roots of psychiatric disorders (rather than just medicating). It would have to be combined with therapy of course, but there’s a lot of potential especially when combined with heightened neuroplasticity from psychedelics.

How long will it take science to tap into the full potential? That’s a different story…

Clearly there’s something within you that registers sight as an image interpreted by consciousness, but is that any reason why someone should “see” what they see? You experience consciousness, meaning something experiences the sensory stimuli. What is the nature of experience itself?

But would it be aware of itself as a conscious entity, rather than merely mimic the patterns of something that is conscious?

They can already do that by combining deepfakes with AI. Encoding DNA into the simulation would just help it to simulate protein and cell growth. That would be extremely high resolution.

The question is: could it ever be conscious?

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Fuck cartels. Send the military after them at this point.