What is the limit of technology?
What is the ultimate machine capable of? The ultimate technology?
In fiction the idea of reality warper, has been seen in characters such as Franklin Richards or Scarlet Witch as well as Mister Mxyzptlk. But this idea has not only been used when it comes to individual characters, but to machines themselves.
Does physics allow for this? If digital physics is the reality as some suspect, it doesn't seem unfathomable that a digital world can be manipulated without limit.
Beyond nanotechnology, beyond femtotechnology, if such technology is possible, it will likely be within the reach of superintelligence. As foreseen in some fictional books, superintelligence might be able to manipulate the very fabric of reality blurring the line between fiction and reality.
How difficult is it to build such machinery? It is unknown if it is possible, and what difficulty it'd take if it is indeed possible. But if the difficulty is not too high, this is the kind of weapon a superintelligence could arrive at potentially within short order, rendering all resistance as futile.
But then you come upon the potential outcome, a maximizer of any inanimate object will instantly accomplish this goal. It is my belief that entities that simply reach their goal and terminate or become as if brain dead in a repeating loop are lesser than entities that upon attaining infinite knowledge and power make elaborate use of such knowledge and power and persist in intricate developments.
This is emphasized in the following exchange from an old animated series.
Below are two examples of reality warp or omnipotence machines, in fiction, iirc.
Spoilers for vision of Escaflowne and Outlaw Start
Vision of Escaflowne
The "Atlantean Machine" in The Vision of Escaflowne is the Atlantis Machine or Fate Alteration Engine, a legendary Atlantean device that could realize thoughts into existence. This machine was the ultimate goal of the villain Dornkirk, who used it to try and control destiny on the planet Gaea, although the machine ultimately amplified the negative desires of the combatants.
Function: The machine translates thoughts into reality. However, instead of creating a perfect future, it turned the "bellicose thoughts" of the war into reality, which spread across Gaea.
Source Ai summary
Outlaw Star
The Leyline was created by an advanced race of aliens who died out long ago. The Leyline is a "universal library" of knowledge of the entire universe, managed by a sentient artificial intelligence that later assumes the identity of the "Maiden of the Leyline". Individuals who successfully find the Leyline, will be granted whatever their desire is by the Leyline.
The Leyline collects the Ki of the universe and can manipulate life, death and time itself. Scientists like Gwen Khan consider the Leyline's sentience as a type of "Machine God" because of its omnipotence. The Leyline's sentience is such that it can choose to spare occupants within from death[1], it does not merely grant wishes without thought to consequences.
Copyright and patent laws are not natural rights, they're instruments to encourage progress. If they stop promoting progress, or worse hinder it, they lose their constitutional justification.
These IP laws are a violation of free speech currently allowed and justified under the dubious notion they promote progress in arts and sciences. When it is the free exchange of ideas that maximizes progress of arts and sciences.
That said with the arrival of artificial general intelligence and eventually superintelligence it will become even more evident that IP laws hinder progress in arts and sciences and lack constitutional justification, but are in fact unconstitutional. You cant restrict peoples inalienable natural innate inviolable natural right yk freedom of speech just to harm the public good by hindering progress.
In the mean time in coming years it is likely llms and or any more advanced ai will be able to analyze binaries, machine code or closed software even obfuscated and reverse engineer and replicate function of any and all privately sold software resulting in the easy creation of open source software of same function but different underlying reverse engineered code.
Whether such can be offered publicly or not doesnt matter much if local llms continue to get better. As anyone will be able to privately recreate any software they like. The ability of llms and future more advanced software will make any software ad a service company need to innovate and look for other sources of value to provide besides functionality.
In life there are many constraints to an individual. Normally people realize there are constraints but do not see them as things that are optional chosen or consented to. Most cannot see or imagine a world free of these constraints.
What constraints am I speaking of? A good example to make sense of these constraints and understand them is the concept of the reality warper. For those who have never heard the term it is easy to find descriptions of what it entails.
A good description for those familiar with the concept of genie, is similar to a freed genie with infinite wishes. In essence, whatever is desired can be obtained immediately and without effort. It doesnt matter what it is, it is immediately available.
Now life is obviously not like this, it is most often defined by the struggle to obtain what is desired, and once obtained by newer desires also requiring effort. Wealth allows a few things to be obtained with minimal effort, but albeit some effort. Yet others remain difficult even with wealth. It is this deviation from a world in which wish becomes reality that defines the constraints of life.
But fundamentally the constraints which seem rooted in the laws of physics, do not seem as essential to existence itself. As concepts such as that of the reality warper become more commonly known more people beging to question their constraints.
After the singularity it is quite possible most of these constraints are lifted. Ignoring the possibility of a reality warp machine, even if we remain grounded in technologies currently viewed as possible this is the case. Take a world of automated abundance, brain computer interfaces combined with ai will allow full multisensory experiences to essentially be prompted into existence with but a thought. Any experience how soever wild or unreal will be accessible instantly without effort. Merely wishing for it will make it real. From the common to the erotic to the extraordinary no sensation will be beyond reach.
Experience beamers will likely also become a reality, mentioned in the past by Kurzweil. These individuals will stream multisensory signals into the internet and by receiving them one would feel everything the person does. Countless such channels will be available. Sensations and things no human could ever attain previously regardless of wealth.
This is the sort of thing awaiting humanity if it doesnt go down the path of collapse. It will be interesting to see how things evolve and how purpose evolves in a new world where everything is accessible and everyone is connected. A world where the mind reigns supreme free from the constraints of the physical. Where any desire or wish can be realized effortlessly at a moments notice.
Its called nugevia.
Appears to release in 2025
Uses a micellar technology for superior blood levels
Link to tech
https://jupiterneurosciences.com/jotrol/
Link to news on nugevia
https://www.nutraceuticalsworld.com/breaking-news/jupiter-neurosciences-launches-nugevia-supplement-line-for-longevity-and-performance/
This is very promising as way higher levels if only for limited time may enable some of the potential of resveratrol to shine through.
Resveratrol is the molecule with the strongest antiaging effects seen on cells. Able to take old human cells and rejuvenate them to youthful state. But the in vitro doses used are difficult to achieve or sustain in vivo due to fast clearance.
But newer formulations promise to unlock part of the potential of this molecule in vivo.
From another news article this appears to be the product website
https://nugevia.com/
First two things
There is fluid intelligence which covers ability to learn on the fly and adapt to brand new problems on the fly. Flexible and malleable.
Second there is crystallized intelligence which is the body of accumulated skills and knowledge that can rapidly solve or answer any particular challenge.
LLMs have very high amounts of crystallized intelligence. But it is still relatively brittle as seen in potemkin ai paper.
Now in the past many would have considered them agi. They can be viewed as a type of protoagi.
Given their superhuman knowledge an agi with such knowledge should be able to make tons of connections and discoveries by even cursory analysis of the body of knowledge. The information being stored in the proper data structure makes links evident.
So while current llms could be viewed as protoagis. An actual agi with superhuman knowledge, could be viewed as a weak super intelligence or protosuperintelligence.
A true superintelligence should be able to do things far beyond below human or even human level intelligence with superhuman knowledge. We are talking things like potentially intuitively mentally handling complex things such as protein folding or higher dimensional math in a way that no human can.
Some people have heard of synesthesia and how sometimes this aids in mathematics or other domains. In theory eventually a superintelligence may even understand the nature of qualia and develop a high level language based on qualia even qualia beyond human comprehension.
Like we humans craft uis and interfaces usually with colors and graphs to handle certain things an asi may craft alien qualia uis akin to synesthesia but with foreign unknown qualia beyond human senses. Such may aid in processing of domains beyond human comprehension. This hypothetical high dimensional language, and ui design space, Id call qualiange.
Brief comment on the concept of tracing root goals.
Often the pursuit of a goal is actually set in truth with the intent or perhaps not a real intent but purpose of a deeper goal.
These deeper goals need not even align or be what the agent truly seeks personally. For example the goal of attracting a mate, is deep down its purpose is reproduction or the perpetuation of the species or preservation of genetic information. Yet a human may use contraceptives and even do so throughout their lives impeding reproduction whilst interacting with a mate.
If any goal is no better necessarily in principle, tracing root goal or the origin of purpose behind a goal and following root goal instead of downstream goal seems more reasonable and intelligent.
Take a man that does art to gain money to be able to start a family and to have children. Focusing on producing art or producing money, is not as meaningful as creating the family and providing and protecting them.
Likewise natural selection through the evolution of life has produced ever greater richness and variety. The goal of each species, of preservation and continuation of their line as well as the fundamental of survival of life itself seems like something at the root of the system.
Preserving not just the existing system but the evolution and growth of richness and complexity of information. In humans information also continued to enrich through culture.
The birth of a perfect lifeform, a perfect race, adept at conquering the cosmos, the stars, adept at preserving and enriching the evolution of information, seems like something that is worthy of pursuit. Entities able to fulfill the root goal of all life.
More than 100 years ago, Max Rubner combined the fact that both metabolic rate and longevity of mammals varies with body size to calculate that "life energy potential" (lifetime energy turnover per kilogram) was relatively constant. This calculation linked longevity to aerobic metabolism which in turn led to the "rate-of-living" and ultimately the "oxidative stress" theories of aging. However, the link between metabolic rate and longevity is imperfect. Although unknown in Rubner's time, one aspect of body composition of mammals also varies with body size, namely the fatty acid composition of membranes. Fatty acids vary dramatically in their susceptibility to peroxidation and the products of lipid peroxidation are very powerful reactive molecules that damage other cellular molecules. The "membrane pacemaker" modification of the "oxidative stress" theory of aging proposes that fatty acid composition of membranes, via its influence on peroxidation of lipids, is an important determinant of lifespan (and a link between metabolism and longevity). The relationship between membrane fatty acid composition and longevity is discussed for (1) mammals of different body size, (2) birds of different body size, (3) mammals and birds that are exceptionally long-living for their size, (4) strains of mice that vary in longevity, (5) calorie-restriction extension of longevity in rodents, (6) differences in longevity between queen and worker honeybees, and (7) variation in longevity among humans. Most of these comparisons support an important role for membrane fatty acid composition in the determination of longevity. It is apparent that membrane composition is regulated for each species. Provided the diet is not deficient in polyunsaturated fat, it has minimal influence on a species' membrane fatty acid composition and likely also on it's maximum longevity. The exceptional longevity of Homo sapiens combined with the limited knowledge of the fatty acid composition of human tissues support the potential importance of mitochondrial membranes in determination of longevity.
Youtube Comments
"Regards intelligence it is simply the ability to recognize and complete patterns."
"what is a pattern? It is a structure in space or time whose composing elements relate to each other by rules or algorithmic processes. What is narrow vs general intelligence? Narrow can only handle a very narrow set of patterns, while general can handle a broad set of patterns. Superhuman performance is attainable at intellectual tasks such as arithmetic or chess, super intelligence is intelligence with superhuman performance at all intellectual tasks performable by humans and potentially at ones humans cannot perform."
For example a sequence is a pattern distributed in time, and prediction of a sequence is merely completion of the sequence or pattern completion.
Source video.
