Machine Learning (= Machine Life) poses an existential risk to the world

[Scholar]

 

You can watch this video and once you have done so, you should realize that this is nothing compared to what awaits us in the next years and decades. I believe it will not take long before these issues will seem like childs-play, and we will wish that we could have forseen what was inevitable.

 

There is a simple reason for this, that will also seem obvious once the issues become more glaring. The reason is that this is the first technology in the history of mankind that actually is not designed by human beings. This technology is designed by evolution itself. Human beings are not engineering these systems, they are engineering the environment which allows for evolution to take place.

These systems simply exploit the intelligence inbued into the mathematical structure of the universe, the same intelligence which self-perpetuate and constructs life in all it's diversity and complexity. The same mechanism that lead to the development of all non-individuated consciousness systems is also allowing these technologies to emerge. This means everything, from viruses, to bacteria, to all plants, fungi and all biological systems. The only thing it excludes is individuated consciousness, depending on the actual parameters under which individuated consciousness is maintained.

 

Human beings can now create technologies that are as intelligently constructed as biological structures. This is machine life, machine evolution and some day possibly machine individuated consciousness.

This is the level of complexity we are talking about:

 

Again: The inherent intelligence ingrained in the mathematical underpinning of the universe is the same intelligence that is used in machine learning.

 

You can look at the types of technologies human beings, with their chimp minds, have created in the past, and how fast these technologies have progressed. You can see that we are not remotely mature enough to integrate these technologies in ways that allow us to use them responsibly as they progress.

Now, this new mechanism, which is inherently what spawned and developed all life on earth, will create technologies far beyond what human chimp minds could have ever hoped to develop. There is a real chance that our species will not be able to adapt to this development.

 

What you must understand is the following: The less likely you believe that chance to be, the more likely it is that humanity is fundamentally not suited to survive this type of technological evolution. You are showcasing the precise lack of wisdom that will make catastrophy inevitable.

If you were wise, you would look at this technology and instantly realize this is more significant and dangerous than nuclear weapons, and that deep fakes are the very least of the challenges we are about to face.

 

We, a species barely more evolved than chimps have just received piece of divine intelligence on a silver platter. And now watch what we will do with it, because this will be the measure of our species and whether we are worthy of continuing to contribute to the process of evolution.

 

 

 

On the other hand, there is hope that the divine was intelligent enough to forsee this type of development, and that the universe was constructed in a way as to limit the intelligence of evolution in such a way that, once a self-aware species arises, it would not destroy itself once it unlocks these powers. However, usually such thoughts are more fueled by huberis than anything else.

Edited July 24, 2023 by Scholar

[Danioover9000]

@Scholar

On 24/07/2023 at 3:14 AM, Scholar said:

 

You can watch this video and once you have done so, you should realize that this is nothing compared to what awaits us in the next years and decades. I believe it will not take long before these issues will seem like childs-play, and we will wish that we could have forseen what was inevitable.

 

There is a simple reason for this, that will also seem obvious once the issues become more glaring. The reason is that this is the first technology in the history of mankind that actually is not designed by human beings. This technology is designed by evolution itself. Human beings are not engineering these systems, they are engineering the environment which allows for evolution to take place.

These systems simply exploit the intelligence inbued into the mathematical structure of the universe, the same intelligence which self-perpetuate and constructs life in all it's diversity and complexity. The same mechanism that lead to the development of all non-individuated consciousness systems is also allowing these technologies to emerge. This means everything, from viruses, to bacteria, to all plants, fungi and all biological systems. The only thing it excludes is individuated consciousness, depending on the actual parameters under which individuated consciousness is maintained.

 

Human beings can now create technologies that are as intelligently constructed as biological structures. This is machine life, machine evolution and some day possibly machine individuated consciousness.

This is the level of complexity we are talking about:

 

Again: The inherent intelligence ingrained in the mathematical underpinning of the universe is the same intelligence that is used in machine learning.

 

You can look at the types of technologies human beings, with their chimp minds, have created in the past, and how fast these technologies have progressed. You can see that we are not remotely mature enough to integrate these technologies in ways that allow us to use them responsibly as they progress.

Now, this new mechanism, which is inherently what spawned and developed all life on earth, will create technologies far beyond what human chimp minds could have ever hoped to develop. There is a real chance that our species will not be able to adapt to this development.

 

What you must understand is the following: The less likely you believe that chance to be, the more likely it is that humanity is fundamentally not suited to survive this type of technological evolution. You are showcasing the precise lack of wisdom that will make catastrophy inevitable.

If you were wise, you would look at this technology and instantly realize this is more significant and dangerous than nuclear weapons, and that deep fakes are the very least of the challenges we are about to face.

 

We, a species barely more evolved than chimps have just received piece of divine intelligence on a silver platter. And now watch what we will do with it, because this will be the measure of our species and whether we are worthy of continuing to contribute to the process of evolution.

 

 

 

On the other hand, there is hope that the divine was intelligent enough to forsee this type of development, and that the universe was constructed in a way as to limit the intelligence of evolution in such a way that, once a self-aware species arises, it would not destroy itself once it unlocks these powers. However, usually such thoughts are more fueled by huberis than anything else.

   Very nice post.

   IMO, as long as black holes, quazars, gamma wave bursts, astroids, or nuclear warfare don't happen, then life can continue. Life is very resilient and will always find a way to survive, even if humans evolve to become more better than past humans. We've survived multiple extinction events.

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Edited July 26, 2023 by MarkKol