Although I think agree the ‘meta-systems transition’ is a super important shift, which can lead us to overestimate the level of difference between us and previous apes, it also doesn’t seem like it was just a one time shift.
Yes in the sense that if you zoom in you’ll see language starting with simplistic low bit rate communication and steadily improving, followed by writing for external memory, printing press, telecommunication, computers, etc etc. Noosphere to technosphere.
But those improvements are not happening in human brains, they are cybernetic externalized.
Yeah I agree it’s not in human brains, not really disagreeing with the bulk of the argument re brains but just about whether it does much to reduce foom %. Maybe it constrains the ultra fast scenarios a bit but not much more imo.
“Small” (ie << 6 OOM) jump in underlying brain function from current paradigm AI → Gigantic shift in tech frontier rate of change → Exotic tech becomes quickly reachable → YudFoom
Yes in the sense that if you zoom in you’ll see language starting with simplistic low bit rate communication and steadily improving, followed by writing for external memory, printing press, telecommunication, computers, etc etc. Noosphere to technosphere.
But those improvements are not happening in human brains, they are cybernetic externalized.
Yeah I agree it’s not in human brains, not really disagreeing with the bulk of the argument re brains but just about whether it does much to reduce foom %. Maybe it constrains the ultra fast scenarios a bit but not much more imo.
“Small” (ie << 6 OOM) jump in underlying brain function from current paradigm AI → Gigantic shift in tech frontier rate of change → Exotic tech becomes quickly reachable → YudFoom