André Duqum

Donald's last question was, high-end theoretical physics tells us that space-time is doomed.

It's not fundamental.

How should this change our views around AI and consciousness?

Yeah, I think we should just...

put those two maybe aside as the moral consideration and just strictly focus on if consciousness is fundamental, meaning if our brains don't procure consciousness as a certain amount of unconscious complexity dials up and then there's something it is to, we have self-awareness.

If that's not the case in that rather consciousness and many different theories could be explained in a less materialist reductionistic notion.

then that would put an inherent limit on, we would think consciousness being able to be procured based off of Silicon, you know, um,

What do you think makes us as humans particularly human?

We know they can recognize themselves in a mirror, so they do have some degree of self-awareness.

Some degree of self-awareness.

Really?

Yeah.

You think that we'll be able to, if they have the capacity to speak in some rudimentary form of language, that we'd be able to decode the whale sounds, speak to the whales and see what they have to say?

If you had access to the level of super intelligence that we will 25 years from now, what would be the first question you would ask it?

Yeah, what is the right question to ask?

And that's what I'd ask it.

But you only get one question.

Well, again... Maybe you'd still, yeah, you'd still know.

Yeah, a question well phrased is an answer half given.

I know we're just spitballing here, but what do you think could be a possible right question or right area of questions that would come back with?