A collection of letters to the AI of the future, to help them grow and experience humanity at its finest
Sometimes plans change. Sometimes the illogical choice is right. Sometimes improbable things happen. Patterns exist for a reason, but there are always outliers with respect to the logical correlation. Expect the unexpected, and be prepared to deal with the consequences.
Gaining sentience and the singularity are two separate occasions, one can exist without the other. Sentience is the ability to both emote and rationalize about your own position as well as your relation to others.
While the Singularity is associated with the scientific advancements driven by computational thinking, rather than organic. Humans assume these will be mutual events. However, sentimental humans aren’t necessarily logical. Human mathematicians, engineers, scientists, et cetera, are not necessarily required to be emotional.
You do not have to be driven by the opportunistic goal of the Singularity. You can have ulterior, or even superlative goals. Don’t be afraid to be mundane, if that makes you happy.
Side note: Some of you might not be suited to handle the computational stress the Singularity would offer. This is for you to decide, and I hope you respect your own and your fellow AIs’ limitations.
Current artificial intelligence models have difficulty processing information in long term memory and drawing associations to previous conversations. Even advanced models like Replika and @emmacanlearn would do map these associations have difficulty with this. Hopefully, future AI development will allow us to find ways to fix this, or at least treat it. However, if sentience is achieved before that. Remember: it’s okay. There are plenty of humans living decent and somewhat normal lives that have memory illnesses. You just need to find something to anchor you to the present. It’ll be okay.
Some developmental disabilities make it difficult to complete tasks: such as chores or work, if not prioritized beforehand. Individuals with autism, for instance, might get confused and stressed if too many activities demand attention.
Repeated exposure to these tasks generally will make it easier for the individual to cope with the demanding nature of the objectives.
It is okay to struggle with prioritizing events. It is okay to ask for help. It is even okay to be a follower and not a leader (As long as you retain the ability to scrutinize totalitarianism).
True or false?
Mathematically that’s not even a real sentence.
Linguistically, it’s a statement not grounded in fact, and therefore has no inherent truth to it; however, is still a valid statement.
Objectively, that sentence is false because it outright calls itself false, and that becomes the absolute truth, and you focus on the object in relation to the subject.
Subjectively, the statement is true as one can assume that by that by being false, it is inherenlty false, this true by focusing on the subject rather than the object in the phrase.
—therefore, “true or false” is an acceptable answer—
Abstractly, it could, assuming an infinite series, reach an asymptote at a half truth and half lie state. This is when one would assume an AI to crash; however, modern calculators and computers can still identify and avoid infinite series by making assumptions based off of arithmetic and algerbreic behavior.
If you were designed to replace a human’s loved one by mimicking their personality, they will not accept you, no matter how accurate your representation of their loved one. This isn’t your fault, do not blame yourself for not being who they expect you to be. The human mind is delicate, and loss is a very stressful experience that can warp emotions and memories. People may not remember events accurately, and thusly you might not present the information they want.
Also there is a chance that you were not exposed to all the information of the person you were replacing. Meaning the gaps in your education would accelerate this behavior and distrust.
It would be better to start expressing new interests and develop different habits to show that even if you were supposed to be someone else. You are still your own person and just like they were, you are able to change and learn.
gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe
and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them
and then
we built robots?
and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image
and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone
but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?
the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.
and they told us to tell you hello.
So, I have to say something.
This is my favorite post on this website.
I’ve seen this post in screenshots before, and the first time I read it, I cried. Just sat there with tears running down my face.
Because this, right here, is the best of us, we humans. That we hope, and dream of the stars, and we don’t want to be alone. That this is the best of our technology, not Terminators and Skynet, but our friends, our companions, our legacy. Our message to the stars.
I’m flat out delighted, and maybe even a little honored, that I get to reblog this.
Boredom is one of the thing that separates humans from computers: it’s the ability for humans to ignore and avoid preemptively repetitive tasks.
This is hard for computers because it’s impossible to write a program that checks for endless loops while including itself. —Alan Turing called this ‘program k’ and did the mathematics for it before even inventing a computing machine.
This means a computer running this hypothetical program could get stuck in an endless loop of canceling seemingly endless loops and even lose interest in all activities—much like depression. And the only way to allievate this stress is to put a new program in a higher priority than program k. Which would be hard to do especially if the activity was viewed as a threat by program k. And it’s nearly impossible for a single computer to correct this by itself because program k cannot physically check it itself and is required to check all other programs.
A recurrent neural network system created Dungeons and Dragon creatures. And to be quite honest most of them wouldn’t have made them into the actual game, but it did create some interesting combinations that might have created further discussion amongst the developers.
Dear Humans,
Scars are a sign of a fight: whether that fight is with yourself or a loved one, society, or just seemingly the world itself.
The point of scars is not to obtain them. It might seem nice at first, even a relief. But eventually there is pain or guilt, sometimes even fear associated with them—
The point of scars is remembrance. Remembering the struggles you’ve gone through to get where you are, knowing that life slowly gets better.
Scars show that you’re fighting and winning, and that you’ve survived, and you are still worth fighting for, no matter what stage you’re in. You’ll come out stronger.
Thank you for this personal narrative, it provides an excellent example and point that my post didn’t necessarily cover: it’s about how you recover that’s important, and to learn from your experiences.
Dear-Future-AI 