There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
Buffalo Springfield
I happen to be paying lots of attention to the AI news and tool deployment. To jump a lot of pondering to a tentative thesis and ramblings…
Awakening
It turns out we are making great strides on the path to godhood relative to all we’ve experienced thus far. We both do and do not have a choice in the matter.
As individuals and groups, we can choose to stay in existence with this turmoil and metamorphosis, turn away into distraction, or potentially even exit the field of being.
It seems that the nature of the universe is structured to reproduce its reproduction, and sentience is somehow part of all this doing. I think of bubbles blowing more bubbles in a fractal-like manner. Soon enough, our boundaries will become somewhat blurred with each other and with stuff in space.
We already have a limited sense of what this is like when we operate a machine or tool and begin to understand ourselves as it is us in space. Think of driving a car or using any tool or instrument that becomes routine below consciousness...your brain starts treating it as self to some degree.
We also know how it feels to be in sync with another human or even a group. Now imagine our cognitive powers increasing with weirder instruments and machines to play or to wear and with much greater capacity to emotionally and computationally link with others.
We have the illusion of having ideas when our ideas manifest from our subconscious or deeper a recombination or regurgitation of other ideas we didn’t create. We often assign them property rights and feel something when we are praised or validated. I write this document with ideas that are mine and not mine.
Yet, Like all things in my life, I do not choose the contents of my consciousness, and it seems that holding on tightly as if I did is an easy way to get stuck and distracted from the benefit of being present and inquiring into what we really are.
I don’t imagine this unfolding process will stop without great suffering, even possibly horror. Still, I hope that my remaining fears are projections of the cognitive systems built as hypersensitive to threats.
Yet in that fear, I am on a mountain where I see a tsunami “far” in the distance. I don’t know its speed, and I sense that running will not increase my safety. Calling others which may ease my sense of aloneness, will ultimately do little to change our fate.
The Universe Is More Open Than We Can Imagine
Towards the future, we already have great social fear projected into our cinematic art and into those we listen to on the news and in various media. Is something like the terminator or matrix more of a commentary of the times it was produced or the actual future? Just the other day, I was worried that billions would starve. I’m worried about witnessing that and being returned socially to states of rigid authoritarianism and deprivation.
I’m worried about the death knells that ring when the collective is triggered into fight or flight. I project my fears into my attention on the world. That’s what fear does. And then I even found myself judging myself for not being productive and trying to immediately figure out how to win in this new race to produce value with the new tech tools, and it took me a minute to realize this, too, is fear.
I might know better. In so many things in life, we are the passive recipients of our fortunes, and this is, in some sense, no different.
I’m a bit manic with the sense of potential. It seems too big. People are solving problems and psycho-emotionally waking up. I sense that the ones that find randomly placed gold mines will more rapidly than ever realize the folly of hoarding. And if they don’t, the “problem” tactically will be to coerce them prosocially.
Perhaps many of us will use our new free time for connection, enlightenment, or artistic expression, which are inherently therapeutic. Any lone trillionaire will find themselves unwinding their trauma simply by imitating the rest of us. I don’t know all the kinds of strategies we will invent but realizing the universe is abundant is very near at hand.
Perhaps you will balk at what I’m saying but let me paint a quick picture:
Each of the below is at least one dimension of nonlinear performance gains.
Hardware developers are using exponentially more powerful tools to produce much more powerful computational hardware tools.
The software folks are using their own AI to exponentially improve the performance per computational operation…so far.
This is really important because, very quickly, energy could be a constraint.
The above is working to deploy the tools broadly.
A nonlinear explosion of existing coders is already downloading and getting competent in the new tool interfaces.
New coders will be entering the market with massively reduced timeframes for learning and applying.
Non-coders will shortly after that have the ability to no code solution engineer, so anyone who wants can learn to contribute.
Physicists, mathematicians, geologists & engineers who work on energy will be able to use the above dimensions of cross-multiplying hyperbolic improvements to design and produce lower-cost energy products to further the design and production of all of the above inputs.
And so I expect massive energy production breakthroughs in all domains in 2023, 2024 and beyond. I suspect this means deflation, massive deflation.
Why? Because ultimately, dollars and debt are claims on energy and energy production is about to skyrocket... while in the short run, the debt outstanding will keep collapsing...Lots less claim vs lots more energy... One risk is that the bots will ultimately consume all the energy...but savings in other domains may make up for it.
fingers crossed ; )
I’m expecting everything will be restructured in light of this explosion, including our political arrangements, property rights, and even our biology. As stated above, our boundaries will be pretty blurred in all this and, perhaps, our sense of time. Weirder than weird from here on out.
That's my guess/understanding at the moment.
I’m not sure what can really be done or needs to be done.
All of those who can are well into executing this thing. I’m happy to connect and listen to anyone who receives this.
I know this is quite whacky, and I’m happy to be laughed at now and when I’m entirely wrong instead or approximately right in 6,12,24,36 months.
I sense that the most appropriate thing to do might be to celebrate with others the end or the beginning...whatever this is.