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Eric Holloway
Date
January 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

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AI Winter, Backpropagation, Brendan Dixon, Data processing inequality, Featured, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, The Singularity}

Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence?

_{And then turn us all into super-geniuses, as some AI researchers hope? No, and here's why not} _{Eric Holloway
January 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

Because Moore’s law is an exponential law, the numbers multiply rapidly and we could hit the physical limit rather suddenly. Current indications are that Moore’s law’s speed has already slowed or even ceased to be a true description of the IT industry today.

Human Consciousness May Not Be Computable

_{One model of consciousness would mean that conscious computers are a physical impossibility} _{Robert J. Marks
November 27, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience}

As long as computers simply get faster and use more memory, there is no reason to worry about a self-aware Skynet.

Can we cheat death by uploading ourselves as virtual AI entities?

_{Transhumanism is a curious blip in a science and technology culture in which it is otherwise axiomatic that humans are merely evolved animals} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 21, 2018

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Social Factors}

It sounds rather like avoiding death by becoming something that isn’t actually alive. Some thoughts to consider before we hit the Enter key… 😉