Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop

Key points

• Could the complexity in the world around us be better explained by there being a platonic zone of patterns of arbitrary complexity which seek to embed themselves in the world?1
• The argument: “I argue that the emerging sciences of synthetic morphology and diverse intelligence suggest non-physicalist models of mind and show how they can be empirically investigated...1
• Some bizarre experiments: There aren’t any home-run experiments that back this up, but rather there are weird things in the world that suggests that even seemingly simple systems are able to explore and expand into rich patterns that seem to be adjacent to them in this hypothesized platonic space of complexity, yet not implied by the systems themselves.1
• Why this matters - perhaps the ‘minds’ of AI and of humans are close but not exactly the same in platonic mindspace: The research agenda Levin lays out is intoxicating and fascinating and also seems to me to hold some clues as to how we might grapple with the deep philosophical and alignment questions inspired by AI systems.1

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• [1]Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
  Import AI (Jack Clark) · Sep 28, 12:32 PM

  Are minds patterns from a Platonic space, with bodies and machines as their interfaces, Michael Levin asks:

  Could the complexity in the world around us be better explained by there being a platonic zone of patterns of arbitrary complexity which seek to embed themselves in the world?

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