“All this requires life to undergo a final upgrade, to Life 3.0, which can design not only its software but also its hardware.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Life 2.0”: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“computer scientists call validation: whereas verification asks “Did I build the system right?,” validation asks “Did I build the right system?” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Yet despite the most powerful technologies we have today, all life forms we know of remain fundamentally limited by their biological hardware.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Life 1.0”: life where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The robot misconception is related to the myth that machines can’t control humans. Intelligence enables control: humans control tigers not because we’re… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The fear of machines turning evil is another red herring. The real worry isn’t malevolence, but competence. A superintelligent AI is by… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“The fact that our Universe (together with the entire Level III multiverse) may be simulatable by a quite short computer program calls… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Similarly, you might argue that today’s humans should count as Life 2.1: we can perform minor hardware upgrades such as implanting artificial… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behavior and the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“I suspect that if we can build such ultra-intelligent machines, then the first one will be severely limited by the software we’ve… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Life 1.0”: life where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed. You and I, on the other hand, are… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“My personal analysis is that the media have made the AI-safety debate seem more controversial than it really is. After all, fear sells, and… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is like a… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“I suspect that if we can build such ultra-intelligent machines, then the first one will be severely limited by the software we’ve written for… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!” — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. —Albert Einstein” — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry this information,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“In other words, even though an observer moment objectively occupies less than a liter of volume and a second of time, it subjectively feels… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Neural networks have now transformed both biological and artificial intelligence, and have recently started dominating the AI subfield known as machine learning (the study… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“it can start with something smaller than an atom and create an infinite space inside of it, containing infinitely many galaxies, without affecting the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
“A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann on steroids: lacking… — Max Tegmark Copy Share
