alt Hacker News> AI isn't a tame long term transition - in scale it is bigger than any transition since the first individual cells
You might need to put the phone / keyboard down, take a day off...
> AI isn't a tame long term transition - in scale it is bigger than any transition since the first individual cells
You might need to put the phone / keyboard down, take a day off...
I am completely calm and serious. This should be mundane, obvious by now.
I find it unfathomable that anyone doesn't recognize that the move from an evolutionary substrate, to engineered mass produced substrates, by beings capable of self-engineering, is the beginning of a new explosion of life.
The speed of engineered adaptation, from materials to architectures, vs. biological evolution is already something like a million times faster.
Fast enough to mean meaningful cognitive progress happening in months, not tens of thousands of years. Which entirely not-coincidentally is exactly what we are seeing.