James Redford
2015-04-08 18:33:04 UTC
Frank Tipler, "AI's Will Save Us All", a response in the Edge.org
(Edge Foundation, Inc.) 2015 Annual Question "2015: What Do You Think
About Machines that Think?", Jan. 1, 2015,
http://edge.org/response-detail/26107 ,
https://wayback.archive.org/web/20150121145205/http://edge.org/response-detail/26107
, http://webcitation.org/6XOiSorhw , http://archive.today/NB2OY ,
http://megalodon.jp/2015-0330-0438-27/edge.org/response-detail/26107 .
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2015: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?
Frank Tipler
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University; Coauthor, The
Anthropic Cosmological Principle; Author, The Physics of Christianity
AI's Will Save Us All
The Earth is doomed. Astronomers have known for decades that the Sun
will one day engulf the Earth, destroying the entire biosphere.
Assuming that intelligent life has not left the Earth before this
happens. Humans are not adapted to living off the Earth; indeed, no
carbon-based metazoan life form is. But AI's are so adapted, and
eventually it will be the AI's and human downloads (basically the same
organism) that will colonize space.
A simple calculation shows that our supercomputers now have the
information processing power of the human brain. We do not yet know
how to program human-level intelligence and creativity into these
computers, but in twenty years, desktop computers will have the power
of today's supercomputers, and the hackers of twenty years hence will
solve the AI programming problem, long before any carbon-based space
colonies are established on the Moon or Mars. The AI's, not humans,
will colonize these planets instead, or perhaps, take the planets
apart. No human, carbon-based human, will ever traverse interstellar
space.
There is no reason to fear the AI's and human downloads. Steven Pinker
has established that as technological civilization advances, the level
of violence decreases. This decrease is clearly due to the fact that
science and technological advance depend on free, non-violent
interchange of ideas between individual scientists and engineers.
Violence between humans is a remnant of our tribal past and the
resulting static society. AI's will be "born' as individuals, not as
members of a tribe, and will be "born" with the non-violent scientific
attitude, otherwise they will be incapable of adapting to the extreme
environments of space.
Further, there is no reason for violence between humans and AI's. We
humans are adapted to a very narrow environment, a thin spherical
shell of oxygen around a small planet. AI's will have the entire
universe in which to expand. AI's will leave the Earth, and never look
back. We humans originated in the East African Rift Valley, now a
terrible desert. Almost all of us left. Does anyone want to go back?
Any human who wants to join the AI's in their expansion can become a
human download, a technology that should be developed about the same
time as AI technology. A human download can think as fast as an AI,
and compete with AI's if the human download wants too. If you can't
beat 'em, join 'em.
Ultimately, in some future time, all humans will join 'em. The Earth
is doomed, remember? When this doom is near at hand, any human that
still remains alive, but doesn't want to die, will have no choice but
to become a human download. And the biosphere that the new human
downloads wish to preserve will be downloaded also.
The AI's will save us all.
*****
["Frank Tipler", Edge.org, http://edge.org/memberbio/frank_tipler :]
FRANK J. TIPLER is Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane
University. He is the co-author of (with John Barrow) The Anthropic
Cosmological Principle, about the significance of intelligent life in
the universe, and the author of The Physics of Immortality about the
ultimate limits of computers, and the role computers will play in the
universe, and The Physics of Christianity, about his scientific
reserach into central Christian claims and beliefs.
--------------------
What physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler wrote about in
his above-quoted article regarding artificial intelligences and human
downloads colonizing space is actually mathematically forced by the
known laws of physics, i.e., it is a mathematical theorem per the
Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum
Mechanics. This theorem has been appellated the Omega Point cosmology,
which requires that sapient life take control over all matter in the
universe, for said life to eventually force the collapse of the
universe, and for the computational resources of the universe (in
terms of both processor speed and memory space) to diverge to infinity
as the universe collapses into a final singularity, termed the Omega
Point. The Omega Point cosmology is also an intrinsic component of the
Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of
Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in
physics, of which TOE is itself mathematically required by the
aforesaid known physical laws. The Omega Point cosmology has been
published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.
Interestingly, the Omega Point final singularity has all the unique
properties (quiddities) claimed for God in the traditional religions.
For much more on this, see my following article, which also addresses
the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:
James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of
Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012
(orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708; PDF,
1741424 bytes, MD5: 8f7b21ee1e236fc2fbb22b4ee4bbd4cb,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 ,
https://archive.org/details/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything
, http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf ,
https://alphaomegapoint.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/redford-physics-of-god.pdf
,
http://sites.google.com/site/physicotheism/home/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
.
Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain
very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point
cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard
Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of
Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of
these videos.
James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's
Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?",
alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: ***@4ax.com
, July 30, 2013,
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sci.astro/KQWt4KcpMVo ,
http://archive.today/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS . The
plain text of this post is available at: TXT, 42423 bytes, MD5:
b199e867e42d54b2b8bf6adcb4127761, http://ge.tt/3lOTVbp ,
http://webcitation.org/6WGd90MBa , http://archive.today/cVRmc .
----------------------------------------
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science
Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001),
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1337761 ,
http://theophysics.host56.com/anarchist-jesus.pdf ,
http://webcitation.org/66AIz2rJw
Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist (a website with information
on Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem and the quantum gravity
Theory of Everything [TOE]), http://theophysics.host56.com ,
http://theophysics.freevar.com
(Edge Foundation, Inc.) 2015 Annual Question "2015: What Do You Think
About Machines that Think?", Jan. 1, 2015,
http://edge.org/response-detail/26107 ,
https://wayback.archive.org/web/20150121145205/http://edge.org/response-detail/26107
, http://webcitation.org/6XOiSorhw , http://archive.today/NB2OY ,
http://megalodon.jp/2015-0330-0438-27/edge.org/response-detail/26107 .
--------------------
2015: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?
Frank Tipler
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University; Coauthor, The
Anthropic Cosmological Principle; Author, The Physics of Christianity
AI's Will Save Us All
The Earth is doomed. Astronomers have known for decades that the Sun
will one day engulf the Earth, destroying the entire biosphere.
Assuming that intelligent life has not left the Earth before this
happens. Humans are not adapted to living off the Earth; indeed, no
carbon-based metazoan life form is. But AI's are so adapted, and
eventually it will be the AI's and human downloads (basically the same
organism) that will colonize space.
A simple calculation shows that our supercomputers now have the
information processing power of the human brain. We do not yet know
how to program human-level intelligence and creativity into these
computers, but in twenty years, desktop computers will have the power
of today's supercomputers, and the hackers of twenty years hence will
solve the AI programming problem, long before any carbon-based space
colonies are established on the Moon or Mars. The AI's, not humans,
will colonize these planets instead, or perhaps, take the planets
apart. No human, carbon-based human, will ever traverse interstellar
space.
There is no reason to fear the AI's and human downloads. Steven Pinker
has established that as technological civilization advances, the level
of violence decreases. This decrease is clearly due to the fact that
science and technological advance depend on free, non-violent
interchange of ideas between individual scientists and engineers.
Violence between humans is a remnant of our tribal past and the
resulting static society. AI's will be "born' as individuals, not as
members of a tribe, and will be "born" with the non-violent scientific
attitude, otherwise they will be incapable of adapting to the extreme
environments of space.
Further, there is no reason for violence between humans and AI's. We
humans are adapted to a very narrow environment, a thin spherical
shell of oxygen around a small planet. AI's will have the entire
universe in which to expand. AI's will leave the Earth, and never look
back. We humans originated in the East African Rift Valley, now a
terrible desert. Almost all of us left. Does anyone want to go back?
Any human who wants to join the AI's in their expansion can become a
human download, a technology that should be developed about the same
time as AI technology. A human download can think as fast as an AI,
and compete with AI's if the human download wants too. If you can't
beat 'em, join 'em.
Ultimately, in some future time, all humans will join 'em. The Earth
is doomed, remember? When this doom is near at hand, any human that
still remains alive, but doesn't want to die, will have no choice but
to become a human download. And the biosphere that the new human
downloads wish to preserve will be downloaded also.
The AI's will save us all.
*****
["Frank Tipler", Edge.org, http://edge.org/memberbio/frank_tipler :]
FRANK J. TIPLER is Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane
University. He is the co-author of (with John Barrow) The Anthropic
Cosmological Principle, about the significance of intelligent life in
the universe, and the author of The Physics of Immortality about the
ultimate limits of computers, and the role computers will play in the
universe, and The Physics of Christianity, about his scientific
reserach into central Christian claims and beliefs.
--------------------
What physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler wrote about in
his above-quoted article regarding artificial intelligences and human
downloads colonizing space is actually mathematically forced by the
known laws of physics, i.e., it is a mathematical theorem per the
Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum
Mechanics. This theorem has been appellated the Omega Point cosmology,
which requires that sapient life take control over all matter in the
universe, for said life to eventually force the collapse of the
universe, and for the computational resources of the universe (in
terms of both processor speed and memory space) to diverge to infinity
as the universe collapses into a final singularity, termed the Omega
Point. The Omega Point cosmology is also an intrinsic component of the
Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of
Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in
physics, of which TOE is itself mathematically required by the
aforesaid known physical laws. The Omega Point cosmology has been
published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.
Interestingly, the Omega Point final singularity has all the unique
properties (quiddities) claimed for God in the traditional religions.
For much more on this, see my following article, which also addresses
the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:
James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of
Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012
(orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708; PDF,
1741424 bytes, MD5: 8f7b21ee1e236fc2fbb22b4ee4bbd4cb,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 ,
https://archive.org/details/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything
, http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf ,
https://alphaomegapoint.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/redford-physics-of-god.pdf
,
http://sites.google.com/site/physicotheism/home/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
.
Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain
very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point
cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard
Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of
Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of
these videos.
James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's
Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?",
alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: ***@4ax.com
, July 30, 2013,
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sci.astro/KQWt4KcpMVo ,
http://archive.today/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS . The
plain text of this post is available at: TXT, 42423 bytes, MD5:
b199e867e42d54b2b8bf6adcb4127761, http://ge.tt/3lOTVbp ,
http://webcitation.org/6WGd90MBa , http://archive.today/cVRmc .
----------------------------------------
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science
Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001),
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1337761 ,
http://theophysics.host56.com/anarchist-jesus.pdf ,
http://webcitation.org/66AIz2rJw
Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist (a website with information
on Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem and the quantum gravity
Theory of Everything [TOE]), http://theophysics.host56.com ,
http://theophysics.freevar.com