Perhaps most superintelligences end up merging into one super-ego, so that their measure effectively becomes zero.
Terren On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Something I have been thinking about. I start with two assumptions: > > - Super-intelligence is more resilient than human intelligence, so it is > likely to last longer (e.g. it is more likely to be able to anticipate > existencial threats and prepare accordingly; it is more likely to spread > throughout the galaxy); > > - A super-intelligence is necessarily conscious (I think both > computacionalists and emergentists can agree here). > > If a super-intelligence is created at some point in time, then we can > expect there to exists much more of it in an entire timeline than human > intelligence. By self-sampling, it is therefore unlikely that I exist as a > human and not as a super-intelligence. > > I can think of three options: > > 1) We are outliers -- it is hard to estimate the likelihood of this, but > it would be tempting to assume that it is very very low if we imagine a > galaxy-spanning AI civilisation; > > 2) No super-intelligence will ever be created; > > 3) We are already super-intelligences, having an experience in a > simulation for some reason. > > What do you think? > > Cheers > Telmo. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
