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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 enchilada
  2. but, i'd better stop speculating about massively superhuman forms of consciousness and get back to assembling my book on AGI ;-D
  3. however, more advanced minds might need primitive minds (like us?) as sub-units ... perhaps less-deluded minds rely on deluded ones as parts
  4. more advanced minds do not need the illusion of a substrate, they are OK with living in a bottomless hierarchy of simulations
  5. simulations within simulations within ... within simulations: the only substrate is the temporary illusion of a substrate
  6. "one shouldn't refer to the affairs of machine elves as noise...i've classically imagined them as cross sections of transdimensional beasts"
  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]
  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...
  9. RT @ribock @bengoertzel So gloomy. But Frank Ramsey proved that in a sufficiently large bunch of disordered elements ... order must emerge.
  10. (re-reading "Watchmen" ;-D )
  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."
  12. "The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else."
  13. "There is nothing else."
  14. "Born from oblivion, bear children, hellbound as ourselves, go into oblivion...
  15. "Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later....
  16. when my parrot gets lonely, it barks like a dog till the dogs come to visit it ;-)
  17. cut ... paste ... cut ... paste ... cut ... paste [cute ... past... ] (assembling first book draft from raft of prior papers ;p)
  18. “superhuman AI has to be cool and therefore good, ethics are for girly-men, it’s an evolutionary imperative, bring it on” -- Sean Taylor
  19. Hungry Optimizers with Low-Complexity Values Ate My Wife and Children ;-(
  20. RT @mikeanissimov Hungry Optimizers with Low-Complexity Values: http://tinyurl.com/yhq259o [Ben: AWESOME NAME FOR A HORROR MOVIE!! ;-D]