There is a way of seeing the world where you look at a blade of grass and see "a solar-powered self-replicating factory". I've never figured out how to explain how hard a superintelligence can hit us, to someone who does not see from that angle. It's not just the one fact.

It's almost as if basing an entire worldview upon a literal reading of metaphors in grade-school science books and whatever Carl Sagan said just after "these edibles ain't shit" is, I dunno, bad?

[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

a solar-powered self-replicating factory

Only, it isn't a factory. As the only thing it produces is copies of itself, and not products like factories do. Von Neumann machines would have been a better comparison

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago

There is a way of seeing the world where you look at a blade of grass and see “a solar-powered self-replicating factory”.

this is just "fucking magnets, how do they work?" said different way. both are fascinated with shit that they could understand, but don't even attempt to. both even built sort of a cult

EY is just ICP for people that don't do face paint and are high on their own farts

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 4 months ago

Yud is as if Woody Allen had grown up on a diet of Neal Stephenson novels