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CARPELS MAKE THE FRUIT. “After fertilization, the carpel tissues undergo further developmental changes to become the fruit, which protects the developing seeds and later contributes to the dissemination of these by a wide variety of mechanisms in different species.” https://lnkd.in/dbZEjuz View in LinkedIn

TOWARDS THE FUSION EVENTS. “Following pollination, compatible pollen tubes are guided with meticulous accuracy through the tissues of the carpel, specifically toward unfertilized ovules.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn

THE GATE AGAINST INBREEDING. “In addition, the carpel provides a location for selective mechanisms that operate on pollen, such as self-incompatibility, which promotes out-breeding.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of the female carpel of flowering plants, a structure that significantly advanced this group of plants in their evolution. View in LinkedIn

THE GOAL. “Self-improvement causes systems to converge to an architecture that arises from von Neumann’s foundational work on microeconomics. Self-improvement causes systems to allocate their physical and computational resources according to a universal principle. “ https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

PHASE CHANGE. Von Neumann: "There is this this completely decisive property of complexity, that there exists a critical size below which the process of synthesis is degenerative, but above which the phenomenon of synthesis, if properly arranged, can be explosive, in other words, where the synthesis of automata can proceed in such a manner that each automaton will produce other automata which are more complex and of higher potentialities than itself.” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.06512 View in LinkedIn

THE INFLECTION: "Once we have devised programs with a genuine capacity for self-improvement a rapid evolutionary process will begin...it is hard to say how close we are to this threshold, but once it is crossed, the world will not be the same.” http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.06512 View in LinkedIn

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

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

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