/sci/ - Science & Math

Interesting quote:

>Further, it may be more efficient for a self-improving superintelligence to eliminate consciousness.

>Think about how consciousness works in the human case. Only a small percentage of human mental processing is accessible to the conscious mind. Consciousness is correlated with novel learning tasks that require attention and focus. A superintelligence would possess expert-level knowledge in every domain, with rapid-fire computations ranging over vast databases that could include the entire Internet and ultimately encompass an entire galaxy.

>What would be novel to it? What would require slow, deliberative focus? Wouldn’t it have mastered everything already? Like an experienced driver on a familiar road, it could rely on nonconscious processing. The simple consideration of efficiency suggests, depressingly, that the most intelligent systems will not be conscious.

>On cosmological scales, consciousness may be a blip, a momentary flowering of experience before the universe reverts to mindlessness.

- Susan Schneider, associate professor of philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Connecticut

http://www.kurzweilai.net/it-may-not-feel-like-anything-to-be-an-alien

Consciousness may be overrated.

>>1903886


>> mfw you don't have a face

>>1569009

>> mfw humanity is died

>>1528241

>> Using the past to predit the future.

>>1523072

>>Cruithne is in a normal elliptic orbit around the Sun.

>>1513598

>>split the dimensional boundaries