Your mom mixed up the hydrocarbons

If consciousness and emotion are emergent there doesn’t have to be a reason at all

If only online porn, social media, computer games, and Alexa could replace genuine human connections. Alas, the research proves something entirely different

Not cheating by using Wikipedia, but here goes:

The “Universe” comprises everything that exists. You, me, the cat, your mom, planet earth, the sun, the moon, the stars in the sky, the galaxies, and even everything else that exists that we can’t see.

The “Observable Universe” extends only within our light cone: that is, everything our most powerful telescopes can see, including more advanced telescopes humans will develop in the future. Because light takes time to travel to us, and because space itself is expanding, there are undoubtedly galaxies beyond what we can currently see that we will never see. In fact, the farthest galaxies we can see at the moment will eventually wink out as the (relative) rate of expanding space outruns the speed of light. Those galaxies will cease to exist within the Observable Universe while they continue to exist in the Universe.

I’ll let someone with more wrinkles on their brain dumb down theories spacetime and dark matter and 2D holographic space.

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> and they didn’t wallow in despair

You don’t know that. Only the nobility and religions had access to reading and writing over the millennia and you assume the voiceless serf and slave castes didn’t wallow? They wallowed, just as they still wallow

Roko’s Basilisk gonna have its way with us

Oil stocks aren’t moving with oil because 1. Biden gave oil subsidies to everyone in the short term via Strategic Reserve (remember, elections coming up, and cheap energy helps); 2. Biden’s gonna have to refill the SR buy buying from oil companies in the medium- to long term; 3. The drive for ESG and general hate-on for fossil fuels means no funding which leads to no exploration which leads to supply issues which leads to parabolic energy prices which leads to oil companies mooning in the mid- to long term, and 4. why would oil companies waste finances on exploration when the West is dead-set on green energy and trying to put them out of business? Thus, demand will FAR outstrip supply. This is inevitable.

O&G is a 5-10 year investment: automate your dividend reinvestment and let supply and demand issues play out

Whoever wrote the scene where Ultron wakes up conscious, bodiless, frightened and angry, in utter darkness, gets it. Elon Musk, who has warned of “summoning a demon”, gets it.

That said, Nick Bostrum posits that a simulated human brain that simulated everything (right down to individual neurons) would effectively be a brain and that consciousness, being an emergent property of a brain’s system, would occur all on its own. If general AI becomes conscious/sentient, it should be possible to simulate bodily input/output experiences like a human does, helping it grow like a child - so it hopefully empathizes with the human condition as it matures.

Aiming for a bodiless black box consciousnesses with access only to programmers and Google is a terrifying, and highly immoral, gambit.