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1ST DRIVE. “The efficiency drive leads to algorithm optimization, data compression, atomically precise physical structures, reversible computation, adiabatic physical action, and the virtualization of the physical. It also governs a system’s choice of memories, theorems, language, and logic.” https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

4 UNIVERSAL DRIVERS. “Self-improvement causes systems to allocate their physical and computational resources according to a universal principle. It also causes systems to exhibit four natural drives: 1) efficiency, 2) self-preservation, 3) resource acquisition, and 4) creativity. Unbridled, these drives lead to both desirable and undesirable behaviors.” https://lnkd.in/dAGQTQs View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this discussion of the female heart of flowering plants, the carpel. This is a case study of the evolutionary importance and impact of a tiny structure, not only on a lineage of living things, but also on the planet. For with flowering plants came an ecosystem of insects, and nested in the insects, came their symbionts, and so on. It shows that biological innovation can be easily overlooked. View in LinkedIn

REPURPOSED GENES. “Thus, it seems reasonable to conclude that: (1) orthologs of most floral genes existed long before their specific roles in flowering were established; (2) novel gene lineages first appeared with the origin of the angiosperms and probably contributed to the origin of the flower; and (3) after a functional flower evolved, genetic innovations continued as new genes originated and/or were recruited into floral genetic programs.” http://www.genetics.org/content/202/4/1255 View in LinkedIn

HOUSE OF THE EMBRYO. “To accomplish their role in seed dispersal, fruits undergo considerable post-fertilisation changes, though many of the mechanisms that bring these about are established at earlier developmental stages. Thus, the basis for fruit development is laid down during the formation of the carpel.” https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

CHANCE. “It seems unlikely that humans are near the ceiling of possible intelligences, rather than simply being the first such intelligence that happened to evolve.” https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

FRUIT OF THE WOMB. “What becomes of the carpel after fertilisation. Indeed, the greater part of carpel-related biodiversity becomes apparent only at this later stage, as the gynoecium transforms into a fruit.” https://lnkd.in/dN-h-K2 View in LinkedIn

THE RISK. “I'm a believer in the fast take-off version of the intelligence explosion. Once a self-aware, self-improving AI of human-level or better intelligence exists, it's hard to know how quickly it'll be able to improve itself. Its rate of improvement will depend on its software, hardware, and networking capabilities." http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

THE ADVANTAGES. “We list a few AI advantages that may allow AIs to become not only vastly more intelligent than any human, but also more intelligent than all of biological humanity." These include: Increased computational resources; Communication speed; Increased serial depth; Duplicability; Editability; Goal coordination; Improved rationality.” https://lnkd.in/dAZH9Vg View in LinkedIn

THE LEAP. “An artificial intelligence could rewrite its code from scratch — it could change the underlying dynamics of optimization. Such an optimization process would wrap around much more strongly than either evolution accumulating adaptations or humans accumulating knowledge. The key implication for our purposes is that AI might make a huge jump in intelligence after reaching some threshold of criticality.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn