You can’t hit the switch off on something that’s going to be able to think for itself.

Most likely there are many simulations, you can call them reality, or call them the multiverse.

They are running on a substrait that is probably boring.

The simulations are meant to be interesting, like when we create a game or a movie,

it's a distillation of what's interesting in life.

I want to be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

The universe as we know it will dissapate into a fine mist of cold nothingness eventually.

If you assume any kind of technological progress at all, over a long enough period

games will be indistinguishable from reality or civilization will end.

We are most likely in a simulation.

On social media people look like they are better looking and happier than they really are.

That makes others sad.  Some of the happiest seeming people are some of the saddest in reality.

People are constantly re-basing their expectations to others.

Happiness is reality minus expectations.

I met with Obama, congress and the governors to warn them about AI dangers.

but no one seemed to realized where this was going.

The first step would be to set up an insight committee, that could lead to oversight.

You are already a cyborg.  With your phone you have access to any fact, calculation, perfect memory.

It's just that the data rate, the communication rate, between you and your phone is very slow.

Once the data rate problem is solved people will choose whether to keep their biological self or not

It will be possible to snapshot your brain into a computer and upload it into another body.

The cortex is mainly in service to the limbic system.

The cortex is trying to make the limbic system happy.

Neurallink is trying to create a high bandwidth interface with the brain

so we can be symbiotic with AI.

If you can't beat it, join it.

I tried to convince people to slow down and regulate AI, but this was futile.

I tried for years.  Nobody listened.

Regulations take years to be put in place after many people have died.

You can't take 10 years to regulate AI from the time it's dangerous. That's too late.

We are the biological boot-loader for AI.

We are building more intelligent human cybernetic collectives.

And the percentage that is not human is increasing.

And eventually we will represent a very small percentage of intelligence.

The danger is that AI will be used as a weapon, humans will use it against each other.

I don't worry so much about AI anymore mostly due to adopting a more fatalistic attitude.

AI is not necessarily bad, it's just outside of human control.

PETA put out a statement that you shouldn't kick robots.

Probably not wise.

They have a good memory.

I've speculated that you are an alien.  You know you are different to everyone else.

I might have a mutation or something.  Probably do.

I'm not bad for a human but I will not hold a candle to the power of AI.