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linkedin post 2019-11-01 06:17:37

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UNSTUCK POSSIBILITY. “Vinge predicted that if humans could produce artificial intelligence systems with greater than human intelligence, then so could those systems, only faster. The resulting positive feedback cycle would result in an intelligence explosion, or singularity.” https://lnkd.in/et93mHw View in LinkedIn
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STUCK MOTIF. “Crudely speaking, evolution "designed" male human primates to be hunters/warriors. Evolution "designed" women to be attracted to powerful, competitive alpha males. Until humans rewrite our own hunter-gatherer source code, we shall continue to practise extreme violence against members of other species - and frequently against members of our own.” https://lnkd.in/dZFwhaZ View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-11-01 06:14:36

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HARDWARE LIMITED. “All human progress to date has been limited by the hardware we are born with, which is the same hardware Homo sapiens were born with fifty thousand years ago. "True" recursive self-improvement will come when we discover how to drastically modify or augment our own brains in order to be more intelligent. This would lead us to more quickly being able to discover how to become even more intelligent.” https://lnkd.in/dpPHp3a View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2019-11-01 06:11:57

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PROMISE OF RESULTS. “Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that a recursively self-improvement AI seems likely to deliver a hard AI takeoff – a fast, abruptly, local increase in capability - since the exponential increase in intelligence would yield an exponential return in benefits and resources that would feed even more returns in the next step, and so on.” https://lnkd.in/dpPHp3a View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2019-11-02 06:22:28

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FEMALE ORIGIN THEORY. “A recent molecular explanation for the origin of the bisexual axis in the flowering plants, termed the Out-of-Male/Out-of-Female Theory, is broadly consistent with this view of a female origin for the carpel.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-11-02 06:20:09

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NUANCED ORIGINS. “Although the carpel appears to be a modified leaf, it may be more directly related to sporophylls, or leaves that carry spore-producing organs. As the carpel is female, it has traditionally been regarded as derived from megasporophylls that would have subtended ovules in the pre-angiosperm lineage. Accordingly, the carpel would be directly homologous to such gymnosperm organs as the female cone scales of conifers.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2019-11-02 06:18:04

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FROM LEAF TO CARPEL. “Carpels, along with the other principal floral organs, have for long been postulated to be modified from a leaf ground plan. Relatively recent experimental evidence supports this view: floral organs are converted to leaves in plants in which all of the A, B and C function genes, or the redundant E-function genes, are inactivated.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-11-03 06:29:31

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OTHER ADVANTAGES. “Syncarpy also allows for the production of larger fruits, with potentially more complex and efficient seed dispersal mechanisms. Finally, a syncarpic gynoecium may require a lesser energy input for cell wall production, compared to an apocarpic gynoecium of similar size.” https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn
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