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Max Tegmark divides life into three phases: 1.0 — fixed hardware, fixed software (bacteria) 2.0 — fixed hardware, self-editing software (humans) 3.0 — self-editing hardware, self-editing software (#AI)
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I really like this framing, because it's counter-intuitive with respect to AI. We mostly think of AI as a software project, but the real story is the transition to "substrate-independent intelligence". If mind can be instantiated in silicon, it can be instantiated anywhere.
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