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Humans are an invasive species? Isn't every species an invasive species when it is new?
The imposition of moral sentiment on descriptions of what happens in the world is endlessly entertaining. It is literally the raw material from which all drama is created!
One of the most interesting things to me about humans is our "evolution" is no longer primarily genetic. In genetic evolution, an imperfect copying mechanism (DNA for the most part) and a selection mechanism (survival) result in the refinement of DNA to produce results that look remarkably well engineered.
But humans now primarily evolve through memetic evolution. An imperfect copying mechanism (digital media combined with edits, false news, advertisements, click bait, and of course mediated through the human's mind) and a selection mechanism (primarily how much attention the audience (us) pays to things) result in the refinement of human ideas and the artifacts in which we record these, combined with drastic changes in human beahvior according to the dominating memes. Memetic evolution now dominates the competition between humans, on the scale of variation between competing human groups we are effectively genetically identical, all the competitve action is in our knowledge and beliefs. Technology is a memetic competition: who can build the most effective diplomatic/military corps, communists dabbling in capitalism or capitalists dabbling in socialism? Can we be defeated by memetic viral attacks which are one way of thinking of wokeness, racism, astrology, materialism, christianity, environmentalism, and other belief systems which change how we act?
What are our limits? I have heard it said that the human brain is the most complex system in the universe, but how many weeks away are we from having an AI which is more complex?
As to the question: will AI's ever be conscious, do you realize we have still not proved that humans are conscious? Most of us believe we are conscious (is it possible to be wrong in such a belief?), and using Occam's razor we assume other people are probably conscious too, but we have not come up with any kind of reliable test to check this, even until now!
The Turing test, which is really as popularly described to see how well a machine can fake being conscious, without reading at all on whether it is actually conscious, really REALLY misses the point. What if AI 'consciousness' is wildly different from human consciousness, as one might expect from an intelligence that is not a thin overlay on the emotional system the precursors of mammals started developing 100s of millions of years ago? What we need is a real test for consciousness, and we could test it on humans before checking our AI's with it, not a test for seeing how well humanity can be faked by a machine.
What are the chances the message above was written by Chatbot?
R:)
