in thread ""Humanity" is a Prison": Yes I think this is a good vision, a competing human centric vision to scale bio-cognition as opposed to scaling silicon, and it bears out both in fiction (pantheon machine + human cognitive synthesis) and real world (elon neurallink)... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.6 2.6 Yes I think this is (view hidden) log in to judge received 2.6 2.6 Yes, it is definitely true *up to our current point* in history, but nothing says that it would be in the future. If anything, reasoning along Landian lines, the evolution towards greater intelligence is always bootstrapped by intermediate stages where str... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.6 1.6 Yes, it is definitel (view hidden) log in to judge received 1.6 1.6 But it … does? One example is “language” as an alternative mechanism for data persistence to sexual reproduction, enabling a completely parallel track to complexity accumulating outside of biological lineage. Its hard for me not to see this as a more... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 0.5 0.5 But it … does? One e (view hidden) log in to judge received 0.5 0.5 Lel. I am adopting this talking point next time someone mentions “x-risk”... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.7 2.7 Lel. I am adopting t (view hidden) log in to judge received 2.7 2.7