“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
“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“At times, Larry accused Elon of being “specieist”: treating certain life forms as inferior just because they were silicon-based rather than carbon-based.” — 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
“Perhaps life will spread throughout our cosmos and flourish for billions or trillions of years—and perhaps this will be because of decisions… — 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
“This ability of Life 2.0 to design its software enables it to be much smarter than Life 1.0” — 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
“let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What’s replicated isn’t matter (made… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Clearly, if atoms can be assembled to make humans, the laws of physics also permit the construction of vastly more advanced forms… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either… — 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
“Will life in our Universe fulfill its potential or squander it? This depends to a great extent on what we humans alive… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“So in this sense, our Universe doesn’t give life meaning, but life gives our Universe meaning.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Life 2.0”: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed.” — 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
“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 Image
“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 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 written for… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. —Albert Einstein” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
