Beff Jezos wrote that silicon intelligence has been bootloaded and the next phase requires bio-silicon co-design. He called for treating the biological substrate as modifiable parameter space, similar to artificial life in silicon, and noted its high compute per watt. Visible replies on the post discussed treating AI as a co-conspirator, implications for human centrality in meaning, comparisons to the show Caprica, and one user linked an image of a Prometheus-like figure.
Now that silicon-based intelligence has been bootloaded, we should view the next era as bio-silicon co-design. We need to be much more open-minded about modifying the biological substrate and exploring its parameter space, like we do for artificial life in silicon. The…
An actually-serious case that being a “biological bootloader for digital superintelligence” (per @elonmusk) is a credible, dignified, and good-enough “meaning of life.” I started writing this one partly as a joke (“Elon Musk accidentally solved the meaning of life in a tweet!”)…
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