03-10-2023, 01:17 PM
Hi everyone,
I am a fellow nerd who found out about this a few years ago because of Issac Arthur.
I enjoy the level of detail, depth and scope of worldbuilding this project has to offer.
I have mild autism (aspergers), so I already hyper-fixate on such things, and absolutely love myriad of ideas displayed.
My area of knowledge is computer science, and I really enjoy reading about the theoretical computing methods and mediums.
I've asked most of the questions I want to on the Discord already, but, I figure I might as well ask these two here:
When reading the article on W-brains, I agree that what described generally makes sense both to exist and as a method that would be used, but I was immediately curious as to how there could actually be an article on the topic of "using wormholes and spacetime geometry as a medium of computation", and the article seemingly isn't. Not directly, at least. From my limited ability to understand the extremely advanced physics and mathematics, I decipher the article as stating "Because of the nature of this mathematical group, it is possible to alter the algorithm being used on a set by applying a new step, which gives a different output that can then be translated to what we originally wanted, and by 'changing the question' like this, it makes quantum algorithms faster"
- Is my smoothbrain baseline summary remotely correct?
- Regardless of my understanding of the article, how does this relate to "the ability to warp spacetime geometry to act as logic gates as a basis for computation"?
Next, just asking for context:
The reason that "Singularity Levels" exist is to have a method of describing differing scale of mental ability to people, by separating the entire space of possibilities into 'tiers' with large gulfs in-between, allowing us to grapple with the similarities, differences, abilities, and perspectives of these superintelligences", correct? Or, at least, partially correct?
There isn't, like, some sort of actual scientific principle at play which states that "No, sapience/sophonce/intelligence is not a continuous scale. These are the singularity levels, and there are 7, and they must exist, like this, at this scope with this scale, and there is nothing in between these gulfs."
Thanks!
I am a fellow nerd who found out about this a few years ago because of Issac Arthur.
I enjoy the level of detail, depth and scope of worldbuilding this project has to offer.
I have mild autism (aspergers), so I already hyper-fixate on such things, and absolutely love myriad of ideas displayed.
My area of knowledge is computer science, and I really enjoy reading about the theoretical computing methods and mediums.
I've asked most of the questions I want to on the Discord already, but, I figure I might as well ask these two here:
When reading the article on W-brains, I agree that what described generally makes sense both to exist and as a method that would be used, but I was immediately curious as to how there could actually be an article on the topic of "using wormholes and spacetime geometry as a medium of computation", and the article seemingly isn't. Not directly, at least. From my limited ability to understand the extremely advanced physics and mathematics, I decipher the article as stating "Because of the nature of this mathematical group, it is possible to alter the algorithm being used on a set by applying a new step, which gives a different output that can then be translated to what we originally wanted, and by 'changing the question' like this, it makes quantum algorithms faster"
- Is my smoothbrain baseline summary remotely correct?
- Regardless of my understanding of the article, how does this relate to "the ability to warp spacetime geometry to act as logic gates as a basis for computation"?
Next, just asking for context:
The reason that "Singularity Levels" exist is to have a method of describing differing scale of mental ability to people, by separating the entire space of possibilities into 'tiers' with large gulfs in-between, allowing us to grapple with the similarities, differences, abilities, and perspectives of these superintelligences", correct? Or, at least, partially correct?
There isn't, like, some sort of actual scientific principle at play which states that "No, sapience/sophonce/intelligence is not a continuous scale. These are the singularity levels, and there are 7, and they must exist, like this, at this scope with this scale, and there is nothing in between these gulfs."
Thanks!