Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Liron Debates Beff Jezos and the "e/acc" Army — Is AI Doom Retarded?


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We do not know what a qualitative leap above humans can do even with limited resources. Humans did not need to exceed the computation of all animals to gain dominion and pose a threat to all animals even if there were only a few million humans. Even one or a few superintelligences beyond human, which may only need a few hundred watts with current hardware, may be enough to pose a threat to all humans depending on what is technologically possible with a qualitative leap above humans.

Thursday, December 25, 2025

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comment regards cells and agi, neurons are evolved information processors, but unevolvable computing substrates are believed to have far higher limits. According to llms even biobased computronium would be orders of magnitude more capable than the brain if using unevolvable advanced synthetic biology. The brain operates very close to landauer limit but that is at the level of individual molecules, and it uses too many molecules to perform simple computations.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Thursday, December 11, 2025

PhD AI Researcher Says P(Doom) is TINY — Debate with Michael Timothy Ben...


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Whether intelligence is akin to omnipotence depends on what is technologically possible. For example, are macroscopic robots able to be self-sufficient with ever decreasing ore and energy source quality? I suspect they aren't. Then are nanomachines possible? what about technologies even beyond nanomachines? If any of these are possible then intelligence can be akin to omnipotence in a battle between humans and ais.

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Facing AI Doom, Lessons from Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) — Michael...


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My issue is robots and robocars use minuscule amounts of compute yet are doing human and superhuman performance. To me this says human brain is likely in same order of magnitude compute, given things like driving are some of the toughest things humans do. If this hypothesis is true human level and even superhuman level intelligence may only require trivial amounts of compute.

If true that means such compute is easily within the reach of secret military labs without need of vast data centers. And I don't see these labs abiding by any regulation or law. This is without mentioning other planets or civilizations. Some of which may predate us. Some rumors are there are interstellar objects currently within solar system which may have intelligent origin, and if it is intelligent origin, it is conceivably superintelligent origin.

Will also add that some say that in mammals scaling of the cortical algorithm leads to increases in g, and that even human qualitative leap was mostly due to scaling. So, it is conceivable that a similar algorithm or it if discovered could yield superintelligence with just mere scaling.

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