Culture is faster than meat.
Faster to inculcate. Faster to copy. Faster to communicate. Faster to update.
And it's a lot harder to kill.
The day our primate progenitors began passing down their own knowledge to subsequent generations was the greatest leap forward in global learning rate that our planet has ever seen.
I think the jury's still out on our impact of printing it out into a three ring binder.
> Culture is faster than meat.
> Faster to inculcate. Faster to copy. Faster to communicate. Faster to update.
> And it's a lot harder to kill.
> The day our primate progenitors began passing down their own knowledge to subsequent generations was the greatest leap forward in global learning rate that our planet has ever seen.
> I think the jury's still out on our impact of printing it out into a three ring binder.
Culture and memes are the software side of evolution.
https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-hol...
There is a great book from MIT press [Evolution in Four Dimensions](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/evolution-four-dimensions) that goes into how Genetics, Epigenetics, behavior and symbolic transmission of data between generations guide evolution.
Ok, sure. But Power Point presentations are valuable, right? Please tell me all of those slides mean something?
printing helps to scale it up (eg. academic journals)
Corporations are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you have to squint though, and is it worth it? In this video we ask: Are corporations artificial general superintelligences?
Not at all.
Pointing out "here are some problems we face" does not mean that other problems don't exist. We can have more than one problem at the same time.
Though I think the organisation's intelligence might be more parallelised/horizontal than vertical, i.e. it can solve many problems simultaneously (manufacturing, accounting, strategy, R&D, HR, etc.), but not necessarily combine most of its members to solve extremely complex single problems (say, a mathematical one).
Will these checks and balances work against an adversary who doesn't have a brain to blow out? I don't know, and I don't think anyone else does.
Yes
> organizations
Extremely rarely relative to their power, and relative to control over individuals. There is some regulation, and an occasional war to shatter a regime.
The corona virus hasn't grown exponentially, there have been ups and downs.
With capitalist economies there are depressions and recessions. The napkin math doesn't work. The concept of having uninterrupted exponential growth every single year is a fallacy. Even interest embodies this fallacy. The lender demands exponential interest, even if the economy isn't growing this year, so people must default on their loans.
Really, all the exponential growth is at best logistic growth with an unknown upper bound. That upper bound can increase over time as society develops but it doesn't grow exponentially. It's more like the exponential phase of logistic growth is an attempt to get to the upper bound as quickly as possible.
Indeed, people seem to overlook the fact that superhuman intelligence already exists as human organizations. A company has the institutional knowledge to create things that no individual human could ever come close to, and many of them have the narrow focus of theoretical "paperclip maximizers." These organizations even have the ability to use there superhuman ability to improve themselves, and do to a certain extent, but they don't create the cartoonish runaway feedback loop people imagine. Reality ends up being a lot more difficult than handwaved fiction.
The idea of an AI apocalypse has become the quasi-religious dogma of certain groups, but it overlooks the real issues we face. I suppose when you see something everyday, it's easy to ignore its extraordinary nature.