Another thing that is pretty cool is that human technological progress is now much more robust and defensible.
Imagine a cataclysmic event. Solar flare, meteor, nuclear exchange etc…
All it takes to restart humanity now is a single LLM running locally somewhere.
We’d probably rebuild some things a little wonky due to the hallucination problem but basically humanity could rebuild nearly from scratch.
All you need is a solar-powered computer and an LLM running offline.
You could start asking it questions.
How do we purify water without electricity? How do you grow food in poor soil? What’s the best way to build a shelter from scrap? How do you teach kids math from scratch? How do we deliver a baby without modern equipment?
Over time, that little community could rebuild agriculture, medicine, engineering and even governance guided by dialogue with a machine that holds echoes of all human knowledge.
No more library of Alexandria moments, that’s a crazy shift.
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Oh damn. Archiving human civilization. Wow.
Basically everything that humans have accomplished has been the collective achievement of the whole species, all of our ideas bouncing off each other and building off each other to produce amazing results. A protocol stack of psycho technologies shared previously through very inefficient rails. We’ve just discovered the most efficient mechanism possible to distribute that knowledge base and supercharged the results.
It’s not quite the “I know kung fu” moment yet but it’s scary close
western myopic reductionist view of a singular "humanity" hinders mutual understanding.
in fact, its retarded, as its a low sample rate western materialist conception of mankind, entirely farcical in that the DEFINING aspect of one actually qualified as a Man is the spiritual orientation.
Not to mention it's utter unscientific-ness in that it denies the inexorable differences in the races, thereby also denying that such profound differences in internal and biological constitutions produce self-contained and exclusive cultural and ethnic traditions that manifest in entirely INCOMPATIBLE civilizational types.
.... but ole big headz here now... with his democratizing intellect.
#projection
