The normal answer to this is as stated - a superintelligence may form, as per various Arthur C Clark (or Olaf Stapledon, really) stories, by merging lots of non-super intelligences. So the chances of finding yourself non-super is vastly greater, because it takes billions of us to make one of them. However, this could lead to you eventually finding yourself super (especially if quantum immortality operates). Or a subset of super.
PS Ants aren't relevant, as Russell explains in "Theory of Nothing". On 10 June 2015 at 09:41, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Perhaps most superintelligences end up merging into one super-ego, so >>>>> that their measure effectively becomes zero. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Perhaps, but I'm not convinced that this would reduce its measure. >>>> Consider the fact that you are no an ant, even though there are apparently >>>> 100 trillion of them compared to 7 billion humans. >>>> >>>> Telmo. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> The way I resolve that one is to assume that self-sampling requires a >>> high enough level intelligence to have an ego (the 'self' in >>> self-sampling). This is required to differentiate the computational >>> histories we identify with as identity & memory. >>> >>> Let's say the entirety of humanity uploaded into a simulated >>> environment, and that one day the simulated separation between minds was >>> eradicated, giving rise to a super-intelligence (just one path of many to a >>> superintelligence). From that moment on it would be impossible to >>> differentiate computational histories in terms of personal identity/memory, >>> so the measure goes to zero. >>> >> >> Why zero? There is still one conscious entity. Why wouldn't it remember >> the great unification and the multitude of humans events before that? >> >> Telmo. >> > > When I say "goes to zero" I mean it as in, approaches the limit of zero in > the relative measure. > > I think it would remember the great multitude of human events, but it > would remember all of them as a single entity, as a single undifferentiated > identity. It effectively collapses the measure from billions to one. > > Terren > > > >> >> >>> >>> T >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
