Probably most people here haven't had time to look at 15k lines of code and form an evaluation of it. Probably most people here share your serious concerns, we're just not sure that banning someone from a mailing list is a very important part of minimizing pain/suffering and maximizing goodness/chillness/warmth/awesomeness or whatever we may wish to maximize. I'm interested in structuring these projects as graphical social networks - something that would be near-term very useful for us and longer-term a great facilitator/substrate of some kind of general intelligence arising in the network
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 2:33 AM justcamel <justca...@gmail.com wrote: > Ben, the world is experiencing never-seen-before levels of suffering, > exploitation, destruction, chaos and insanity. The number of people who > understand the nature of the process which is causing a whole > civilization (or rather their quality of consciousness) to degenerate is > so low ... it's just so scary. AGI could be humanity's last hope and > when people on one of the very few mailing lists dealing with the > subject can not tell 15k lines of unfathomable garbage apart from > "intelligence" ... well, that's just another level of scary. > > I don't want to experience even lower levels of quality of collective > consciousness. I don't want to experience ever increasing levels of ego, > insanity and brutality. You know, "Trump Era" is not where it stops ... > it's not something even remotely funny. Every year we fail to stop the > process (systemic scarcity and fear) people will continue to degenerate > and you will have billions of primitivized people with billions of > insane opinions about what to do and who to blame ... just look at > Erdogan, Putin, Duterte, Trump, etc. and their followers ... > > In Nazi Germany (a product of systemic scarcity and fear) there still > was an "outside force" (UK, US, etc. ...) that calibrated _somewhat_ > higher on the scale of consciousness ... and outside force that could > intervene. Right now, our monetary system is turning the whole world > into one gigantic degenerated "Weimar Republic" about to collapse into > inconceivable chaos. AGI could be the "outside force" to do something > about it ... > > Sure, you could lean back and say that collapsing societies are just > part of the "cosmic lila" ... and that maintaining mailing lists about > humanity's potential only hope where trolls post the most nonsensical > stuff imaginable is somewhat funny ... true ... > > On 17/02/2019 09:43, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > > Dude... this is the Trump Era ... and you're asking why give trolls a > > stage? I thought your sense of humor was higher dimensional than > > that??!!! ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc360a468d4050822-M3fb6a55ed20ed5d413c67555 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
