I think the stuff about the supernovas addresses this: a central point is that the “AI” must be capable of generating an arbitrary world state within some bounds.
Well in case it’s relevant here, I actually almost wrote “the AI hypothesis” as “the life hypothesis” and phrased it as
Any pattern of physics that eventually exerts control over a region much larger than its initial configuration does so by means of perception, cognition, and action that are recognizably life-like.
Perhaps in this form it’s too vague (what does “life-like” mean?) or too circular (we could just define life-like as having an outsized physical impact).
But in whatever way we phrase it, there is very much a substantial hypothesis under the hood here: the claim is that there is a low-level physical characterization of the general phenomenon of open-ended intelligent autonomy. The thing I’m personally most interested in is the idea that the permissibility of AI is a deep property of our physics.
I think the stuff about the supernovas addresses this: a central point is that the “AI” must be capable of generating an arbitrary world state within some bounds.
Well in case it’s relevant here, I actually almost wrote “the AI hypothesis” as “the life hypothesis” and phrased it as
Perhaps in this form it’s too vague (what does “life-like” mean?) or too circular (we could just define life-like as having an outsized physical impact).
But in whatever way we phrase it, there is very much a substantial hypothesis under the hood here: the claim is that there is a low-level physical characterization of the general phenomenon of open-ended intelligent autonomy. The thing I’m personally most interested in is the idea that the permissibility of AI is a deep property of our physics.