u/moschles

Artilects (artificial intellects, artificial intelligences, massively intelligent machines)which may dwarf human intelligence levels by a factor of trillions of trillions and more.

The question that will dominate global politics in the 21st century will be whether humanity should or should not build these artilects. Those in favor of building them are called "Cosmists" in this book, due to their "cosmic" perspective. Those opposed to building them are called "Terrans," as in "terra," the Earth, which is their perspective. The Cosmists will want to build artilects, amongst other reasons, because to them it will be a religion, a scientist's religion that is compatible with modern scientific knowledge.

The Cosmists will feel that humanity has a duty to serve as the stepping-stone towards building the next dominant rung of the evolutionary ladder. Not to do so would be a tragedy on a cosmic scale to them. The Cosmists will claim that stopping such an advance will be counter to human nature, since human beings have always striven to extend their boundaries. Another Cosmist argument is that once the artificial brain based computer market dominates the world economy, economic and political forces in favor of building advanced artilects will be almost unstoppable. The Cosmists will include some of the most powerful, the richest, and the most brilliant of the Earth's citizens, who will devote their enormous abilities to seeing that the artilects get built. A similar argument applies to the military and its use of intelligent weaponry. Neither the commercial nor the military sectors will be willing to give up artilect research unless they are subjected to extreme Terran pressure.

To the Terrans, building artilects will mean taking the risk that the latter may one day decide to exterminate human beings, either deliberately or through indifference. The only certain way to avoid such a risk is not to build them in the first place. The Terrans will argue that human beings will fear the rise of increasingly intelligent machines and their alien differences.

As the intelligence levels of the early artilects increases, it will become obvious to everyone that the intelligence gap between these artificial-brain-based products and human beings is narrowing. This will create a growing public anxiety. Eventually, some nasty incident or series of incidents will galvanize most of society against further increase of artificial intelligence in the artilects, leading to the establishment of a global ban on artilect research.

The Cosmists however, will oppose a ban on the development of more intelligent artilects, and will probably go underground.

Genome language models have emerged as a promising strategy for designing biological systems, but their ability to generate functional sequences at the scale of whole genomes has remained untested. Here, we report the first generative design of viable bacteriophage genomes. We leveraged frontier genome language models, Evo 1 and Evo 2, to generate whole-genome sequences with realistic genetic architectures and desirable host tropism, using the lytic phage ΦX174 as our design template. Experimental testing of AI-generated genomes yielded 16 viable phages with substantial evolutionary novelty.

ping /u/AgentStabby

This person has been running around reddit claiming that robots in 2026 have "exceeded the vision and mobility of human children." He is wrong, and the following is my response to him.

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The ability of human children to fluidly adapt to new unseen conditions under their feet is not exhibited by any robot , machine, nor technology on earth today.

The viral video reels of robots you watch on tik-tok and youtube are all robots trained to master that specific movement in DRL campaigns. Which means that the agility you witness in those showcase reels is not indicative of a general capacity for athleticism. In short, those robots are ultra-capable at a narrow task they were trained on.

AGI will certainly be capable of taking people's jobs in the blue-collar sectors. But that will never happen until we have technology that fluidly adapts to new conditions which did not occur in its training data. Adult humans are seen engaging in this kind of on-demand adaptation every time they join a new workplace.

An AGI will have the capacity to dynamically adapt to new conditions in the same way a human child does. I hope that claim is non-controversial and agreeable for you. no?

Imagine adding a folding stock to a BREN 2 with 9 inch barrel chambering 7.62x39. (SKU 91460) This will be a Form 1 conversion.

I am hearing rumors this is not possible in the USA, due to that particular firearm already containing 16 imported parts which are ATF recognized. Rumors also suggest that the imported parts have to be somehow reduced to 10.

Do these rumors have any legal teeth? If so, where I can read more about this conversion?

Bernie Sanders is on the floor saying we cannot ignore the warnings about AI anymore. The POTUS has called for an OFF-switch. Have we entered a new historical stage of the Control Problem?

(Edit: This wasn't supposed to be a party politics thread. ) For many years, the Control Problem was a tiny issue known by a small group of people on social media. /r/ControlProblem was a little-known backwater on reddit. Today we have POTUS and senators talking about the issue of rogue AI's doing what they want to achieve their goals. Also, I might point out that the number of posts about the control problem in /r/agi has increased significantly. In coming months, I expect to see /r/artificial effectively turn into a subreddit about the control problem.

All roads lead to the control problem.