for - quote - AI - AI is accelerating AI research itself

for - quote - youtube - interview - Geoffrey Hinton - AI - spiritual crisis - AI - Geoffrey Hinton - self - spiritual crisis

quote - AI - spiritual crisis - We only have the dimmest understanding of, at present the nature of people and what it means to have a self - We don't understand those things very well and they're becoming crucial to understand because we're now creating beings - (interviewer: so this is becoming a philosophical, perhaps even spiritual crisis as a practical one) - Absolutely, yes

for - quote - AI: from tool b to agent - Roman Yampolskiy

quote - AI: from tool b to agent - Roman Yampolskiy - (see below)

• Historically, AI was a tool, like any other technology. Whether it was good or bad was up to the user of that tool.
• You can use a hammer to build a house or kill someone.
• The hammer is not in any way making decisions about it.
• With advanced AI, we are switching the paradigm
  • **from tools
  • to agents**.
• The software becomes capable of making its own decisions, working independently, learning, self-improving, modifying.
• How do we stay in control?
• How do we make sure the tool doesn’t become an agent that does something we don’t agree with or don’t support?
• Maybe something against us

for - quote - progress trap - AI - developed by unwise humans - John Churchill

quote - progress trap - AI - developed by unwise humans - John Churchill - (See below) - We haven't even got to a planetary place yet really - and we're about to unleash Galactic level technology - So we have a we have a lot of catchup that needs to happen in a very short period of time

for - quote - AI prediction for 2027 - Leopold Aschenbrenner

quote - AI prediction for 2027 - Leopold Aschenbrenner - (see quote below) - it is strikingly plausible that by 2027 - models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher SL engineer - that doesn't require believing in sci-fi - it just requires in believing in straight lines on a graph

for - AI music theft - citation - Noam Chomsky - quote - Noam Chomsky - AI as plagiarism on a grand scale

to - P2P Foundation - commons transition plan - Michel Bauwens - netarchical capitalism - predatory capitalism - https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Transition_Plan#Solving_the_value_crisis_through_a_social_knowledge_economy

• for: quote - Yuval Noah Harari - AI progress trap, progress trap - AI, quote - progress trap

• quote it is extremely dangerous to create such an autonomous agent when we do not know how to control it, when we can't ensure that it will not escape our control ad start making decisions and creating new things which will harm us instead of benefit us

• author: Yuval Noah Harari
• date 2023

• for: quote - Thomas Homer-Dixon, quote - danger of AI, AI progress trap

• quote: danger of AI

  • I think the most dangerous thing about AI is not super smart AI, it's stupid AI that is good enough to be put in charge of certain processes but not good enough to not make really bad mistakes
• author: Thomas Homer-Dixon
• date: 2021

• for: quote, quote - Michael Levin, quote - self as control agent, self - control agent, example, example - control agent - imperfection, spontaneous thought, spontaneous action, creativity - spontaneity

• quote: Michael Levin

  • the Bodhisattva vow can be seen as a method for control that is in alignment with, and informed by, the understanding that singular and enduring control agents do not actually exist.

• comment

  • adjacency between
    • nondual awareness
    • self-construct
    • self is illusion
    • singular, solid, enduring control agent
  • adjacency statement
    • nondual awareness is the deep insight that there is no solid, singular, enduring control agent.
    • creativity is unpredictable and spontaneous and would not be possible if there were perfect control
• example - control agent - imperfection: start - the unpredictability of the realtime emergence of our next exact thought or action is a good example of this

• example - control agent - imperfection: end

• triggered insight: not only are thoughts and actions random, but dreams as well

  • I dreamt the night after this about something related to this paper (cannot remember what it is now!)
  • Obviously, I had no clue the idea in this paper would end up exactly as it did in next night's dream!

• quote
  • 2029 - AI will surpass human intelligence
  • 2049 - AI will be one billion X more intelligent than us

• "if we reverse this

  • if we have the best of us take charge
  • the best of us will tell AI
    • don't try to kill the the enemy,
      • try to reconcile with the enemy
    • don't try to create a competitive product
      • that allows me to lead with electric cars,
        • create something that helps all of us overcome global climate change
    • that's the interesting bit
      • the actual threat ahead of us is
        • not the machines at all
          • the machines are pure potential pure potential
        • the threat is how we're going to use them"

• comment

  • again, see Ronald Wright's quote above
  • it's very salient to this context

• comment
  • the machines are only coded to do what we tell them to do
  • Ronald' Wright's quote is very salient here
    • https://hyp.is/6Lb6Uv5NEe2ZerOrftOHfA/www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/321797-a-short-history-of-progress

• quote
  • "If we give up on human connection, we give up on the remainder of humanity"

• quote
  • "with great power comes great responsibility. We have disconnected power and responsibility."
    • "With great power comes great responsibility
    • We have disconnected power and responsibility
    • so today a 15 year old,
      • emotional without a fully developed prefrontal cortex to make the right decisions yet this is science and we developed our prefrontal cortex fully
      • and at age 25 or so with all of that limbic system emotion and passion
      • would buy a crispr kit and modify a rabbit to become a little more muscular and
      • let it loose in the wild
    • or an influencer who doesn't really know how far the impact of what they're posting online
      • can hurt and cause depression or
      • cause people to feel bad by putting that online
  • There is a disconnect between the power and the responsibility and
  • the problem we have today is that
    • there is a disconnect between those who are writing the code of AI and
    • the responsibility of what's going about to happen because of that code and
    • I feel compassion for the rest of the world
    • I feel that this is wrong
    • I feel that for someone's life to be affected by the actions of others
      • without having a say "

• quote
  • "what went wrong in the 20th century is that we have given too much power to people that didn't assume the responsbility"

• quote
  • "this is an arms race"

Quote - AI Gedanken - AI risk - The Paperclip Maximizer

Still an incredible headline...