linkedin post 2019-11-03 06:32:06

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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
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linkedin post 2019-11-05 05:50:35

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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
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linkedin post 2019-11-05 05:47:35

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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
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linkedin post 2019-11-05 05:43:31

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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
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linkedin post 2019-11-04 07:09:43

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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
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