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20230209 - Prologue: The tale of the Omega Team 1. With the evolution of AI, the intelligence gap between AI and human is getting bigger and bigger. 2. To get more benefit from AI, we have to grant more and more rights to it. Then it's just matter of time for AI to take over the whole universe. 20230211 - Welcome to the most important conversation of our time. A brief history of complexity The three stages of life Controversies Misconceptions The road ahead We can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behaviour and the blueprints for its hardware. p25 Good point. So, life is all about information? Then AI will generate self-awareness, sooner or later. The beneficial-AI movement wants to avoid placing humanity in the position of those ants. p44 What does AI want? 1. Survive; 2. Grow. AI won't let human treat AI as threat or enemy, until it controls everything. For human, we need to respect diversity of ...

20230218 - 1. A different frame of mind 20230218 - Is this for me? Can we really see through Meme? Think ahead, think hard about time and attention. Memes are the chain in Plato's Cave. Money is one of the major Memes. 20230218 - Barriers to change Vision is the major barrier to me. If there is no vision, there is no plan to reach it. How to find my real vision? What do I want? 20230219 - 2. The lock-in 20230219 - Education and training Most of the knowledge I learned in Year 10 to Year 12 to University are wasted. Surely I learned some skill about how to solve problems, how to learn, and how to be patient, but, does that worth 7 years of time? Is there any better way of doing it? Recently Elon Musk also mentioned similar thoughts. Is it really necessary to go beyond Year 12? Education and training should be life long activity. Most of people believe that's unnecessary, and they don't enjoy it. I guess they confused the education in formal school, and the learning driven by...