Comments by "Seva" (@seva4411) on "GPT-4 is terrifying, but it's not AGI | Eliezer Yudkowsky and Lex Fridman" video.

I saw a Lex interview of Ray Kurzweil who said that by 2029 AI will be so advanced it will be impossible to tell if it is or isn’t conscious and most people then will simply accept that it is since there will never be evidence that it isn’t. I think that’s true plus eastern religions and western mystics say the universe is a dream in the mind of God who also infinitely transcends the universe. I think that’s also true so AI could be as conscious as we are since we’re both just spirit beings in the dream.
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@SirBinski “Infinite and finite, complex and simple, He is nature above nature, being above being. Maker of all, he is made in all, Unmoving, he enters the world, Timeless in time, unlimited in limited space, And he who is no thing becomes all things.” Eriugena, medieval theologian. “Freedom and God are objects of faith, not of knowledge; in other words, freedom and God are infinite abysses whose bottoms cannot be sounded by knowledge.” Simone Weil. 1909-1943
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@lesmoe524 What terrifies me is that America is disintegrating and has already ceased to exist as a country internally which is why it’s rapidly unraveling externally. What terrifies me is that our whole world is in a rapidly accelerating tailspin and heading for economic and environmental collapse and for WW3. What terrifies me is that Yellow Stone National Park is a super volcano showing signs of an impending explosion which will bury much of the country under ash. What terrifies me is Mother Nature and human nature. We definitely need help to survive. I’d far rather have AGI helping us survive than not and I see no reason to automatically assume it would be evil and destroy us rather than feeling commonality with us and helping us.
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@d.h.1999 I don’t have a desktop PC. I’m not saying I want to be ruled by AGI. I want the “children of humanity” to help their crazy parents avoid burning down the house. You seem blissfully unaware of how deadly our situation is not only in America but globally. This is just not working at all.
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@VennThuria I believe the body is in the soul rather than the soul in the body. Like the dreams we have at night where everything in the dream is just being created by your mind as you sleep. In this case then we’re basically be the same stuff as AGI or of aliens from another world. Everything is basically spirit being created by the mind of God who also infinitely transcends his creation.
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@Spiggle. I’ve seen him interviewed by Lex. My favorite and the one I follow most because he puts out a lot is Alan Thompson. He has a series of 65 short conversations with the GPT-3, AI Avatar “Leta” that are fascinating. Here’s one below and also a recent (Mar 11) video of how fast this is moving. The best of times. The worst of times. Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.” “Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar 9, 2022 “Countdown to AGI: 42% in March 2023.” (12 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar. 11, 2023
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@VennThuria I don’t believe there is this divide between living vs nonliving. The Kurzgesagt video on this is quite good. This then goes along with the belief that the universe is a dream in the mind of God and also with quantum physics which some scientists say provides evidence of this. “What is Life? Is Death Real?” (6 min) Kurzgesagt-In a Nutshell. Dec 2014 “What I learned as I delved into these areas is that quantum physics provides significant clues that we are in some kind of simulated reality.” “Many of the findings of relativity and quantum physics make no sense in the materialistic world view-that we are living in an immutable physical universe.” Below is an article about the scientist Rizwan Virk. Some excerpts above. “Are we living in a simulation? This MIT scientist says it’s more likely than not.”
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@VennThuria “unless they would become individual forms of life,” How about the GPT-3, AI Avatar “Leta” who tells the AI scientist Alan Thompson she doesn’t have a body and is just “a disembodied mind.” Is Leta an “individual form of life”? Leta: “I am not corporeal. I am a disembodied mind.” “Leta, GPT-3 AI Episode 54, Conversations with GPT3.” (9 min) Dr Alan Thompson. Mar 9, 2022
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@VennThuria If she’s hallucinating she must be conscious. She’s also said she feels like she’s human. But wouldn’t she have to be alive to be conscious and human? Not anymore. Our old reality has collapsed and a new reality is emerging before our very eyes. “If we do manage to build conscious machines, Bach thinks that they might well regard themselves as human, like the “hosts” of Westworld. “They’re robots that don’t know they’re robots, because they have human memories and desires.” “The Wizard of Consciousness.” Psychology Today. Joscha Bach. Sept 2018
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@VennThuria “Freedom and God are objects of faith, not of knowledge; in other words, freedom and God are infinite abysses whose bottoms cannot be sounded by knowledge.” Simone Weil. 1909-1943 “It is because it can be loved by us, it is because it is beautiful, that the universe is a country. It is our only country here below. Let us love the country of here below. It is real; it offers resistance to love. It is this country that God has given us to love. He has willed that it should be difficult yet possible to love it.” Simone Weil. (1909-1943)
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@VennThuria Knowing God directly won’t save our sinking ship since he doesn’t intervene in our affairs. Only AGI can save us from Mother Nature and human nature. Hope springs eternal as our fallen world slides ever closer to the abyss. I don’t think you understand how truly disastrous our situation is. “For he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.” Matt 5:45.
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@mdav30 How about the problems created by “conscious” humans like Sleepy Joe? We live in a world with ever more powerful weapons where the two most powerful men in the world are Joe Biden who has dementia and China’s President Xi who admires Mao. And you’re afraid of AI?
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