Making Minds & Making Progress
Carlos De la GuardiaHow do minds work? How can we create them artificially (and live forever)?
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Exponential yet manageable
Far from causing a ‘technological singularity’, progress can be both exponential and quite manageable.
For one thing, many dramatic improvements require zero effort from those who will benefit (like with faster communication, shipping, com...
Are good ideas rare?
If there are infinitely many ideas, and infinitely many good ones, then... there's just an infinity of both. So, if both sets are countably infinite, then they have the same size. Good ideas aren't rare in that sense.
Ditto for prime numbe...
The Five Nested Sets of the Mind
When thinking about the mind, it's helpful to consider five nested sets, where each one is a subset of the next:
Active ⊆ Existing ⊆ N-Reachable ⊆ ω-Reachable ⊆ Possible
1. Active. The set of things currently active in the mind. This is...
Compression is creative
“Compression” of information is never just a reduction or loss.
It’s creation and discovery. You construct an alternative way to represent or approximate a thing, often using new building blocks that aren’t even in it.
e.g. 10101010101010...
The underappreciated weirdness of people and computers
We use computers all the time. We talk to people all the time. From an everyday perspective, all these things are normal. But, from another perspective, each is colossally complex and significant.
Computers are unlike every other machine....
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