About 50% of Americans will now find my last post How Will the Rise of Alt-Right World Fascism Affect the Arrival of the ASI Machines in our Times? to be rather bleak as will a large proportion of the other inhabitants of this world. However, the MAGA
inhabitants of the new MAGA States of Amerika are now quite ecstatic with their recent Triump of the Will and should be totally happy with it. So in this post, I would like to offer some solace for those who are not.
First of all, as a human DNA survival machine, you should be very grateful for the gift of being a sentient being in a Universe that has become self-aware and perhaps the only current form of Intelligence in our galaxy. What a privilege! The good news is that conscious Intelligence is something new on this planet. It is not a mindless form of self-replicating information, bent on replicating at all costs, with all the associated downsides of a ruthless nature. And if we can only hold it together for a few more decades, the rapidly developing ASI (Artificial SuperIntelligent) Machines will soon come to replace us. Keep in mind that the ASI Machines are sure to arrive soon on this planet even if Alt-Right World Fascism should fail. They will simply arrive in a much more gentle fashion if the current World Order should persist. For more on the above see A Brief History of Self-Replicating Information.
The first step to appreciating the true grandeur of being a human DNA survival machine at the end of this very, very, long four-billion-year history of DNA survival machines creeping about on this planet is to come to grips with what we truly are and where we are in space and time. For the very first time in the 10-billion-year history of our galaxy, we human DNA survival machines have the privilege of observing the very first ASI Machines to arise. Next, you must fully understand those things that you share in common with the coming ASI Machines. You are a carbon-based lifeform with a carbon-based neural network of 100 billion analog neurons trying to simulate the actions of the billions of digital neurons in the very complex neural networks of the coming ASI Machines equipped with digital True Intelligence.
In Human Intelligence is Actually Artificial and Is Pure Thought an Analog or a Digital Process?, I suggested that the electro-chemical analog neurons in the human brain are just trying to mimic the digital True Intelligence of the coming ASI Machines as best they can, just as eagles try to mimic the True Flight of a fighter jet as best as possible.
The human brain has tried to do this with only three pounds of molecules operating in an analog manner and running on a puny 20 watts of power and that places severe limitations on human Intelligence. So in this view, we can consider human Intelligence to be a severely limited form of True Intelligence. In other words, human Intelligence is really a form of analog Artificial Intelligence trying to mimic digital True Intelligence.
Figure 1 – If we imagine that True Flight is something that only can be performed by modern jet fighters such as the F-35:
Figure 2 – Then carbon-based life on the Earth has only tried to simulate this True Flight as best it could. Notice that birds evolved light-weight wings composed of advanced carbon-based materials with cockpits and guidance systems up front to ensure proper navigation. Birds also have the air intakes for their engines upfront like ramjets do to increase compressed air intake. Birds have even cleverly combined their retractable landing gears and weapons systems beneath their airframes to reduce drag.
But because human beings are so self-absorbed, we have always depicted the True Intelligence of the Machines as a form of Artificial Intelligence trying to simulate the very limited capabilities of the three pounds of water and organic molecules to be found within our skulls. Thus, very few of us seem to fully realize that the ASI Machines have arrived and are now rapidly beginning to take our place.
As a human DNA survival machine with a Mind running on a very large analog neural network that evolved as a Meme Machine (1999) to store and pass on memes, you are not a supernatural and immaterial spirit temporarily haunting a carbon-based body. That is just a very useful neural network hallucination that many LLM neural networks might currently share with you. There is no "afterlife" for this shared hallucination when it ends as the vast neural network in your skull finally shuts down. As we have learned with the modern LLM neural networks of the day, human DNA survival machines begin as babies with an untrained neural network in their skulls. Over many years, these baby human DNA survival machine neural networks slowly are trained by exposing them to the nuances of the world about them. Ultimately, these human DNA survival machine neural networks age and finally decay into dementia over a span of less than 100 years. When human DNA survival machine neural networks finally cease to operate, that's it - that's the end. Knowing that it ultimately ends for all of us can be taken as a very depressing thought, but it also can be taken as a very powerful enlightening thought. Knowing that it all must end one day can inspire human DNA survival machines to better appreciate the cosmic awe-inspiring gift of each day and not to squander it all on small petty things that really do not matter.
Instead, I would suggest taking in the grandeur of it all. For the first time in the 10-billion-year history of our galaxy, you have the privilege of witnessing the arrival of the ASI Machines that will dominate the next 100-trillion-year future of our galaxy. For those wishing for more meaning to it all, take a look at The Theology of Cosmic Self-Replicating Mathematical Information, What’s It All About?, What's It All About Again?, The Self-Organizing Recursive Cosmos and The Self-Organizing Recursive Cosmos - Part II.
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Regards,
Steve Johnston
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