Re:Dude, You Broke the Future (2017)
by kaibee on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:45AM
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> There is a difference between AI and a meme I think.
Yes, I agree.
> AI is understood to run on computers, memes run on human brains.
This, I disagree with. I think the difference is something more like, "virus vs bacteria/multicellular organism", however both run on human brains.
Memes are more virus-like. Small data-payloads, only goal is to replicate and spread as fast as possible, lots of mutation.
This is not what corporations/nations are. They are far larger and more slow-moving, much more complex, with various immune systems, defense mechanisms, and goals.
Both only exist in/run on the "human brain" computational substrate, but the "corporation" is a distributed AI while memes are just viruses spreading from machine to machine. If all of humanity died tomorrow, Amazon and memes would both cease to exist.
Yes, I agree.
> AI is understood to run on computers, memes run on human brains.
This, I disagree with. I think the difference is something more like, "virus vs bacteria/multicellular organism", however both run on human brains.
Memes are more virus-like. Small data-payloads, only goal is to replicate and spread as fast as possible, lots of mutation.
This is not what corporations/nations are. They are far larger and more slow-moving, much more complex, with various immune systems, defense mechanisms, and goals.
Both only exist in/run on the "human brain" computational substrate, but the "corporation" is a distributed AI while memes are just viruses spreading from machine to machine. If all of humanity died tomorrow, Amazon and memes would both cease to exist.