When I was young, the idea of the abolition of national states appeared progressive and virtuous to me. Now it seems like a call for the mass murder of civilizational intellects.
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Replying to @nosilverv
Your own intellect is not monolithic, but a rarely fully coherent orchestra of different mental instruments. Likewise, the civilizational intellect becomes visible when you integrate over the effects of the interaction of its influential minds, over a sufficiently long time.
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Replying to @Plinz @nosilverv
This deeply resonates with a model of my mind that I have been applying since last year. My mind is a civilization, subject to the analogous dynamics and politics, prone to catastrophe in the hands of bad leadership, needs institutions to plan and allocate budgets, etc etc.
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Exactly. Our understanding of minds in the context of AI and self reflection may well require modeling in terms of institutions formed by local reward oriented agents. These institutions act as specialized organs in the mental organism.
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