#41

If we go by likelihood, by far the event with the greatest chance of happening is our consciousness randomly emerging in a looooong dead universe from random Unruh radiation particles.

#42

Frankly, Iā€™m happy no matter what. If this is the prime universe or an ancestral simulation, does it really matter? We canā€™t change our circumstances so we need to live life the best we can and hope there is an afterlife that is kind to us.

#43

Passing the Turing test is something I expect a system to do if that has not already happened.

However, running a simulation is really quite demanding given the number of variables and volume of input output data.

#44

Yes. The Turing Test has been passed.

ChatGPT, released in November 2022, is based on GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 large language models. Celeste Biever wrote in a Nature article that ā€œChatGPT broke the Turing test.ā€[50] Stanford researchers reported that ChatGPT passes the test; they found that ChatGPT-4 ā€œpasses a rigorous Turing test, diverging from average human behavior chiefly to be more cooperative.ā€[51][52]

http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02361-7

#45

Are we sure about that? They donā€™t have to simulate a complete universe or anything close to even simulating our planet. For example, say you are in a room, anything behind you or even outside of the small subset of the world that you can see from the window does not need to be simulated at any moment - and they only have to simulate it with precision if you look in specific direction and with scientific equipment, and so on.

Anyway, if you have 30 min at some point, skim the paper above - think youā€™ll find it fascinating (there are some equation but one gets the gist even if skipping over them)

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#46

That viral video showing a head transplant is a fake. But it might be real someday.

BrainBridge is best understood as the first public billboard for a hugely controversial scheme to defeat death.

The video project was bankrolled in part by Alex Zhavoronkov, the founder of Insilico Medicine, a large AI drug discovery company, who is also a prominent figure in anti-aging research. After Zhavoronkov posted the video on his LinkedIn account, commenters noticed that it is his face on the two bodies shown in the video.

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#47

Thanks for sharing @RapAdmin

Re the articleā€™s title - Did anyone think the animated video was real? Seems super clear it was just a concept videoā€¦

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#48

What Iā€™ve seen, the energy is on paths to be able to make/grow replacement bodies see e.g. Mark Hamalainen | A Coherent, Executable Plan to Achieve Unlimited Healthy Lifespan - Foresight Institute

But, given how ā€œsmallā€ the resources would be to solve this - vs solving it via small molecule, gene therapies, partial reprogramming, the investment allocation to this is still crazy low: Regenerative Medicine, Growing New Organs, Etc - #46 by RapAdmin

On the transplant side there are additional direct efforts, see e.g.

And efforts that will indirectly help solve remaining subproblems of the transplant procedure, see e.g.

#49

Yes, the video was just a concept but it turns out there is no company. Brainbridge doesnā€™t exist and the job listings were fake. So deliberate deception. From the MIT article:
ā€œWe can report that BrainBridge is not a real companyā€”itā€™s not incorporated anywhere. The video was made by Hashem Al-Ghailiā€
ā€œHe also didnā€™t respond when asked if the job adsā€”whose cookie-cutter descriptions of qualifications and responsibilities appear to have been written by an AIā€”are real roles or make-believe positions.ā€

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#50

https://xcancel.com/daohydra

Elon Musk seems a deathist so I donā€™t think he would support this, among other longevity interventions.
I donā€™t know much about any of these or actually longevity at all, so I have a lot to learnā€¦

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#51

Cool. Thanks for sharing. Bet that @ng0rge is working on this behind the scene :wink:

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#52

A. There are a ton of ways that replacement (from young healthy, non-radiation damaged bone marrow and all the way up to hole bodies) could help with colonizing mars and the solar system

B. Iā€™m not sure he is against it - and will be as he ages and realized that he could do so much more with 30, 50, 100 extra years

C. Did you see this: Elon Musk on Cryonics - Biostasis

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#53

@AnUser and @Neo , Thanks for the links to HydraDAO and Biostasis-the Science of Cryonics and bio.xyz, Iā€™m looking into it. And what about ā€œX Cancelledā€? Is that another option for the exodus from X? What about Bluesky? Thatā€™s where Iā€™m looking.

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