Andrew Gallimore

So I think what you're saying kind of resonates with the idea that interesting things happen globally within civilizations, not when everything is perfect, but when things are

are close to going out of control, but they don't.

And you have to push it as far as you can push it without it descending.

We're always on the edge of everything collapsing.

And we're probably closer to that than we actually realize.

And so I think that's kind of what's happening.

And I think when it comes to superintelligence, there's an interesting idea which I've been playing with is

Well, if there is some kind of superintelligence that does emerge, and that might be the fate of all intelligent civilizations, the astrobiologist Stephen Dick conceived of something called the intelligence principle, which basically says that any civilization...

will try to maximize intelligence.

Because when you maximize intelligence, you improve education, you improve technology, everything improves.

And ultimately, the intelligence that the civilization have leads to the generation of super intelligences, the artificial intelligences that we have now that then become super intelligences.

And of course, this super intelligence isn't going to be kind of running on the kind of transistor architectures that we're familiar with.

A superintelligence will find a way to instantiate itself using the fundamental computational substrate of space-time itself.

That's where it's going to learn how to go.

And that might be the fate, is that this superintelligence, when it emerges on Earth, it instantiates itself into the fundamental substrate of reality.

usurps us or swallows us up or maybe just destroys us.

And then that becomes part of that vast population of superintelligences that permeate the cosmos.

And that might be what we're interacting with when you smoke DMT.

You're interacting with one of these superintelligences, which would explain why it seems so technological and so inorganic, right?

The DMT space, it's like you're interacting not with...