Lee Cronin
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Jun 2024
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I mean, the same thing if you get rid of nuclear weapons. Exactly. That's my point. So what we could do is if we actually started to put the AI in charge, which is I really like an AI, to be in charge of all world politics. And this sounds ridiculous for a second. Hang on. But if we could all agree on the… Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I really don't like politicians who are basically just looking at local sampling. But if you could say globally, look, here's some game theory here. What is the minimum number of nuclear weapons we need to distribute around the world to everybody? to basically reduce war to zero.
Yeah.
But I don't think anyone will use them. Because I think, and look, what you've got to try and do is like to qualify for these nuclear weapons. This is a great idea. The game theorists should do this, right? I think the question is this. I really buy your question. We have too many nukes. Just from a feeling point of view that we've got too many of them.
So let's reduce the number, but not get rid of them because we'll have too much conventional warfare. So then what is the minimum number of nuclear weapons we can just do it around to remove humans hurting each other is something we should stop doing. It's not outwith our conceptual capability.
But right now, what about certain nations that are being exploited for their natural resources in the future for a short-term gain because we don't want to generate knowledge? And so if everybody had an equal doomsday switch, I predict the quality of life of the average human will go up faster.
I am an optimist and I believe that humanity is going to get better and better and better, that we're going to eliminate more problems.
I mean, you have to integrate that into the... But we distribute the nukes-like population, right? What we do is we... I can't believe this. But anyway, let's just go there. So if a small nation with a couple of nukes uses one because they're a bit bored or annoyed... the likelihood that they are going to be pummeled out of existence immediately is 100%. And yet they've only nuked one other city.
I know this is crazy and I apologize for it.
I can predict a future where we take all nuclear material and we burn it for energy, right? Because we're getting there. And the other thing you could do is say, look, there's a gap. So if we get all the countries to sign up to the virtual nuclear agreement where we all exist, we have a simulation where we can nuke each other in the simulation and the economic consequences are catastrophic.
In the simulation. I love it.
It's just going to have economic consequences. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I just made it up.
actual nuclear weapons I think they do in Argentina and they do in Somalia and they do in a lot of these places where no I I think this is a great idea I'm a strong advocate now for so what we come up with burning burning all the nuclear material to have energy and before we do that because mad is good mutually assured destruction is very powerful let's take it into the metaverse and
and then get people to kind of subscribe to that. And if they actually nuke each other, even for fun in the metaverse, there are dire consequences.
No, they're happy. They have a job for another 20 years, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a believer in equal employment.
Yeah.
I want to understand the mechanism of intelligence that's gone through evolution, right? Because the way that intelligence was produced by evolution appears to be the following. Origin of life, multicellularity, locomotion, senses. Once you can start to see things coming towards you,
and you can remember the past and interrogate the present and imagine the future, you can do something amazing, right? And I think only in recent years did humans become Turing-complete, right? Yeah. And so that Turing-completeness kind of gave us another kick up. But our ability to process that information It's produced in a wet brain.
I think that we do not have the correct hardware architectures to have the domain flexibility and the ability to integrate information. I think intelligence also comes at a massive compromise of data. Right now, we're obsessing about getting more and more data, more and more processing, more and more tricks to get dopamine hits. So when we look back on this, going, oh, yeah, that was really cool.
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