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Tag Archives: Evolution
The Singularity
What is the Singularity? How do you think it will affect humanity, and what can we do to prepare? [ 22/May/23 ] In mathematics, a singularity is a point at which a function takes an infinite value. In more common … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, cooperation, Evolution, risk mitigation, Singularity, technology, understanding
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Quora – competition – cooperation
What if humanity lived as if it were competing with an extraterrestrial civilization instead of competing with each other? [ 27/April/23 ] Wrong question! Try – What if humanity lived as if it understood that competition is only survivable if … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged complexity, cooperation, Evolution, future, risk mitigation, understanding
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Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life
Daniel Schmachtenberger – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life [ 26/April/23 ] While I align with Daniel in many dimensions of the extremely complex issues we have as a species, two things Daniel stated in this interview give me deep … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, consciousness, Evolution, life, understanding
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Reality, Probability, and Perception
Reality, Probability, and Perception | Frankly #29 [ 21/April/23 ] Very well done Nate. I was the only person in my district of some 4,000 people fully prepared for the 7.8 earthquake that hit us 6 years ago. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Evolution, risk mitigation, understanding
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Mike – I don’t know, but really want to find out
I don’t know, but really want to find out [ 18/April/23 ] Agree with most of the major themes, but a few bits seem over simplified in a dangerous and misleading way. The quoted idea of “survival-enhancing range” should more … Continue reading
Risk in society
The real battle is between people who want to be left alone and those who refuse to leave other people alone [ 6/April/23 Dirk posted a DuPage Libertarian quote:Forget ‘right’ and ‘left’ for a moment… The real battle is between … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, diversity, Evolution, freedom, respect, Responsibility, risk mitigation, understanding
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AI and wider risk
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368 [ 4/April/23 ] Agree with Eliezer about the seriousness of the risk of AI in current context, and about the nature of meaning, and … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, complexity, Evolution, future, risk mitigation, technology, understanding
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Characteristics of the human mind
Human Mind [ 29/March/23 Walter Kant asked:Does the human mind have the following characteristics? We are extremely complex. Far more complex than most have ever considered the possibility of. Of necessity, our brains need to simplify the information they receive … Continue reading
Posted in Brain Science, understanding
Tagged complexity, Evolution, human nature, uncertainty, understanding
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Platonic Ideas
[ 22/March/23 Walter Kant wrote:World of platonic ideas = world of pure being and thinking; it is accessible only through reason, not through the senses.Which platonic ideas are independent of time and of the world observed with the senses? It … Continue reading
Agency, cooperation, respect
[ 21/March/23 ] Michael Ward,Yeah.We always have far more influences working upon us, at far more levels, than we can possibly deal with consciously, and we all have the ability to create degrees of agency and to take responsibility for … Continue reading
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Tagged agency, complexity, cooperation, Evolution, future, respect, risk mitigation, understanding
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