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COMMON GENES. “An increasing amount of evidence suggests that the pathways regulating the basic morphological outline of ancestral leaf-like organs have been recruited to the developmental programmes of both leaves and floral organs, including the carpels, of present-day plants, although in the latter case, these have been slightly modified and positioned downstream of genes determining floral organ identity. For instance, mutations in genes affecting carpel morphogenesis also result in defects in the basic morphogenesis of the leaves.” https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

FOUR LEAPS. “Taking a long historical long view, we see steady total growth rates punctuated by rare transitions when new faster growth modes appeared with little warning. We know of perhaps four such “singularities”: animal brains (∼600 MYA), humans (∼2 MYA), farming (∼10 kYA), and industry (∼0.2 kYA).” http://intelligence.org/files/AIFoomDebate.pdf View in LinkedIn

GOETHE’S FAMOUS INSIGHT. “Leaves and floral organs most likely have a common evolutionary origin, or as Goethe memorably put it: Alles ist Blatt (All is Leaf; von Goethe, 1790). https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

NEW LEARNING. “Humans learn how to use language in a society of language users. No principles that might allow an artificial agents to learn language this way are known at present. We present work that addresses this challenge: Our auto-catalytic, endogenous, reflective architecture (AERA) supports the creation of agents that can learn natural language by observation.” https://lnkd.in/eTrCtpj View in LinkedIn

BOUNDED RECURSIVE SELF-IMPROVEMENT. "Based on principles of autocatalysis, endogeny and reflectivity, the work provides an architectural blueprint for constructing systems with high levels of operational autonomy in underspecified circumstances, starting from only a small amount of designer-specified code -- a seed.” https://lnkd.in/ezNrCcA View in LinkedIn

NO CONTROL. “We must be sober about the fact that nothing in physics prohibits very bad outcomes. But we must also be sober about the fact that nothing in physics prohibits outcomes of greater joy and harmony than our primitive monkey brains can imagine.” https://lnkd.in/dg44j-e View in LinkedIn

THE GOOD AND THE BAD. “The best of these traits could usher in a new era of peace and prosperity; the worst are characteristic of human psychopaths and could bring widespread destruction.” https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

4TH DRIVE. “The creativity drive leads to the development of new concepts, algorithms, theorems, devices, and processes. https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

3RD DRIVE. “The resource acquisition drive leads to a variety of competitive behaviors and promotes rapid physical expansion and imperialism’ https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

2ND DRIVE. “The self-preservation drive leads to defensive strategies such as “energy encryption” for hiding resources and promotes replication and game theoretic modeling.” https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn