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I agree that your version is more satisfying and I can imagine that to be the future, although I find more plausible that the first generations will be distinct
by porkbrain 5y ago
I agree that your version is more satisfying and I can imagine that to be the future, although I find more plausible that the first generations will be distinct and geo-spacially localized.
Once the mind hive's perception of self (if that is even necessary for intelligence) is blurred sufficiently that pretty much any system can be plugged in, than the whole possibility I mentioned crumbles.
> Perhaps that is already happening.
Do you mean intentionally by many researcher groups who don't share it, or as a shadow society peggy-baging on the internet without anyone's attention?
- jacknews 5y agoI mean that if we consider humanity as an intelligence, it is clearly in the process of upgrading itself. Of course it's a bit of a stretch to consider all of humanity as a single intelligence, certainly from our individual vantage points. It doesn't seem conscious or even that smart. But from a different vantage point, especially in time, perhaps it does. I do have a more-strongly-integrated distributed intelligence in mind (with 'components' that are less autonomous), but perhaps there are other structures that already are intelligent on different scales, that we don't yet recognize. Perhaps it is not us upgrading, but the universe itself.