Max Tegmark

If I say something in anger that I regret, I want to go back and really work on myself rather than just tell an AI to from now on always filter what I write so I don't have to work on myself because then I'm not growing.

I would phrase that as rebranding ourselves from Homo sapiens to Homo sentience.

Right now, sapiens, the ability to be intelligent, we've even put it in our species name.

We're branding ourselves as the smartest information processing entity on the planet.

That's clearly going to change if AI continues ahead.

So maybe we should focus on the experience instead, the subjective experience that we have with homo sentience and say, that's what's really valuable.

The love, the connection, the other things.

And get off our high horses and get rid of this hubris that only we can do integrals.

That feels like a hopeful direction to me, but that also requires more compassion, not just towards other humans because they happen to be the smartest on the planet, but also towards all our other fellow creatures on this planet.

And I personally feel right now we're treating a lot of farm animals horribly, for example, and the excuse we're using is, oh, they're not as smart as us.

But if we admit that we're not that smart in the grand scheme of things either in the post AI epoch, you know,

then surely we should value the subjective experience of a cow also.

Life 1.0 is really dumb, like bacteria, in that it can't actually learn anything at all during the lifetime.

The learning just comes from this genetic process from one generation to the next.

Life 2.0 is us and other animals which have brains, which can learn during their lifetime a great deal.

And...

You were born without being able to speak English.

And at some point, you decided, hey, I want to upgrade my software.

Let's install an English-speaking module.

So you did.