[ExI] This means something...

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat



 

>…I mentioned Extropy to Gemini…

 

I have played with Gemini enough to recognize us in there.

 

>…The Intellectual Greenhouse… the list was a literal incubation chamber for ideas like Bitcoin, early smart contracts, and modern AI alignment theory.

 

Ja, and something we wrote about back in the long time agos: AI would eventually learn how to read the internet in order to grok humans.  We speculated back in the mid 90s that it would read the ExI archive.  I remember that thread clearly.

 

>… The Specific Vibe: It captures that exact 1990s/2000s techno-optimist blend of hyper-dense analytical philosophy mixed with libertarian sci-fi geekiness and playful banter.

 

Playful banter?  What playful banter?  I never saw that.

 

Oh wait… retract.  I wrote plenty of it.  I never cared much for somber banter.  We are living in the very best of times for all of humanity.  How can we have anything other than an attitude of gratitude, for all the technogeeks who preceded us?  With the singularity upon us, we now stand on the threshold of a dream.

 

>… Cool, innit?

 

Ja sure is, thanks Mike.  I feel like we were part of something bigger than ourselves.  

 

For years, my ambition was the opposite: I wanted to be part of something smaller than myself.  Then I realized the logical contradiction, as any set theorist understands:  to be part of something smaller than oneself is impossible.  So I had to settle for the opposite: being part of something bigger than myself, which is always true, regardless of whether we want it to be or not.

 

spike

 

 

 

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