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  1. remember what zebulon taught us: it's turtles all the way down ... and then at the bottom there's an enchiladahalf a minute ago from web
  2. but, i'd better stop speculating about massively superhuman forms of consciousness and get back to assembling my book on AGI ;-D1 minute ago from web
  3. however, more advanced minds might need primitive minds (like us?) as sub-units ... perhaps less-deluded minds rely on deluded ones as parts2 minutes ago from web
  4. more advanced minds do not need the illusion of a substrate, they are OK with living in a bottomless hierarchy of simulations3 minutes ago from web
  5. simulations within simulations within ... within simulations: the only substrate is the temporary illusion of a substrate3 minutes ago from web
  6. "one shouldn't refer to the affairs of machine elves as noise...i've classically imagined them as cross sections of transdimensional beasts"4 minutes ago from web
  7. Posted above our toilet by my daughter:"Lean over the bowl / Then take a dive / All of you are dead / I am alive" [see UBIK by Phil Dick]about 5 hours ago from web
  8. @ribock and of all the orders that emerge from the chaos, those orders that internally place value on order will tend to survive longer...about 5 hours ago from web
  9. RT @ribock @bengoertzel So gloomy. But Frank Ramsey proved that in a sufficiently large bunch of disordered elements ... order must emerge.about 5 hours ago from web
  10. (re-reading "Watchmen" ;-D )about 6 hours ago from web
  11. "Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose."about 6 hours ago from web
  12. "The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else."about 6 hours ago from web
  13. "There is nothing else."about 6 hours ago from web
  14. "Born from oblivion, bear children, hellbound as ourselves, go into oblivion...about 6 hours ago from web
  15. "Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later....about 6 hours ago from web
  16. when my parrot gets lonely, it barks like a dog till the dogs come to visit it ;-)about 8 hours ago from web
  17. cut ... paste ... cut ... paste ... cut ... paste [cute ... past... ] (assembling first book draft from raft of prior papers ;p)about 8 hours ago from web
  18. “superhuman AI has to be cool and therefore good, ethics are for girly-men, it’s an evolutionary imperative, bring it on” -- Sean Taylorabout 9 hours ago from web
  19. Hungry Optimizers with Low-Complexity Values Ate My Wife and Children ;-(about 9 hours ago from web
  20. RT @mikeanissimov Hungry Optimizers with Low-Complexity Values: http://tinyurl.com/yhq259o [Ben: AWESOME NAME FOR A HORROR MOVIE!! ;-D]about 9 hours ago from web