Mong: переводы

→Alice reacted, because of fear, instead of interacting. But what really happened is not what we saw at all. What we saw, was a masquerade of people pretending to feel things. A few days later we might have seen Alice return and "forgive" Bob...(what's really happening is that Alice cannot handle being on her own because she's too insecure, and Bob is better than nothing.) (Eve ran off with a cryptoanalyst to Barbados). People use each other as things, as anxiety-pacifiers, and cast them away without a second thought when something more pacifying comes along. There is hardly any real emotion, between people, in practice, anymore. Nobody is able to feel it; nobody's been taught. Which is not the best breeding ground for self-esteem.

→Forewarned is forearmed. We have the knowledge of what is dangerous and the memory and knowledge of what to avoid. Better, we can now learn to recognize the signs of something that might be dodgy and either pay attention to it and find out, or not pay attention to it just in case.

→The ideal timing for a memory-wipe session is to do the recalling just before the drug takes effect. That way, you call up the memory and then block the chemical reaction required to refile it. It really is that simple.

→Regardless of what you decide to take and how you decide to take it, the first hour or however long it takes will need your concentration, because that’s where you’ve got to pull up all the files you want to delete. If you’re organized you’ll have a list based on one subject or one feeling and experiences connected with that. If you have very traumatic experiences in mind you’re best dealing with them one at a time.

→When I first started messing about with memory, it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, in the olden days before we had MRI and stuff. We used to do those tests where, for example, you show people some pictures and they see if they can tell them apart from others they have not seen...this was supposed to test visual recognition memory. Or you test 'verbal recall' by reading out a list of words and seeing if people can remember them...

→It is natural for us, alas, loony or not, to try to destroy things that make us afraid, things that threaten our survival. If all people with red hair make us feel afraid...well, there must be something weird about them...something wrong with them...we certainly don't want any more of them turning up around here...

→In a sense, consciousness is an epiphenomenon of intelligence. Intelligence is a program for survival resulting from evolutionarily successful strategies for survival. Some kinds of behavior have helped us stay alive. The ability to do them gets passed on. The most successful individuals have more of them. They are strategies for interaction, the most profitable memes for continued survival.

→"I wish I could show you the real future, in detail, just the way it's going to unfold. In fact, I wish I knew its shape myself. But the unreliability of trends is due precisely to relentless, unpredictable change, which makes the future interesting but also renders it opaque.

→It must be clear by now that I see IA as the (currently) most immediately accessible way to increase our intelligence. Cryonics may be a necessary subsidiary technology to preserve it, unless a great deal happens in nanotech very fast.

→...So let’s get down to the final meat of the matter...Recursive self-improvement via IA is possible right now. How will this affect the general public? Will intelligence emerge, or will it go extinct? Will we nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope for intelligence?

→As we grow up from children into adults, we don't strive to protect our "childness" - upgrading one's intelligence is similar in the sense that dynamic sentience strives to higher forms of information processing and sophistication, rather than adamant preservation of the existing identity pattern.

→Realistically we'll get all sorts of people involved in all of these fields...but the most dangerous combination to watch out for is a penniless mercenary genius plus an idiot with a lot of money. That could produce the worst case scenario in any of them.

→The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of [the 20th] century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.

→...It is this easy, for a human being to totally lose the plot.

→1. The enhancements of learning compositions, and the facilitation of interhemispheric information. 2. A partial enhancement of the resistance of the brain to cognition-damaging chemicals and injuries. 3. An increase in the efficiency of tonic cortical and sub-cortical controls systems.

→2. PT-141, a selective melanocortin receptor agonist, is a unisex sexual desire, response and orgasm elicitor. Preliminary testing in animal models cannot seem to find fault with it in any area of sexual function...."Pretty much guaranteed"... Administered as a nasal spray about a half-hour before sex, PT-141 acts on the central nervous system rather than the current crop of vascular dilation products.R64

→Intelligence has to become its own matrix before it can fully interact. We become our own matrix when we have a powerful enough imagination to create our own internal role models and convince ourselves of their reality sufficiently to fire mirror neurons. Then, and only then, can we design through the ACG a model for intelligence better than our current model, and move into it.

→...And if a central sorting house for memory manipulation as a whole could be named, I'd vote for the ACG.

→In synergy, each creative act can merge with other creative acts to form an overall act of "amalgamated creativity", as all research teams and good bands know. Intelligence runs COMP between minds as well as in them. And the concept of copyright is a joke, when we are genetically designed to plagiarize every bit of input we come across and then improve on it.

→The ACG is our perspective's GPS. It lifts order out of the chaos and shows us where we are, if it is working. It looks at what is going on both outside and in and then it plans. In doing so, it puts together creative ideas with logic. It plays.