TYB
In the troubled worlds of the five kinds of defilement,
and 20 kinds of covid
Sentient beings are only attached to various desires,
And ultimately do not seek the path of the buddhas.
In the future the impure will hear
The Buddha teach the single vehicle,
But they will be confused and will not accept it.
They will reject the Dharma
And fall into the troubled states of being.
To those who are modest and pure,
And seek the path of the buddhas,
I will praise extensively
The path of the single vehicle.
O Sariputra!
You should know that the Dharma
Of all the buddhas is like this.
They teach the Dharma
With myriads of kotis of skillful memes,
According to the capacities of sentient beings;
The inexperienced cannot understand this.
You have come to know with certainty the skillful memes
Of the buddhas, the Teachers of the World,
That are expounded in accordance
With people’s capacities.
All of you, have no further doubts!
Let great joy arise in your hearts
And know that you will all become buddhas
Who kilt Slick Rick?
https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/26/memphis-dj-slick-rick-decapitated-beheaded-death-police-investigating/
lol
q — What is the singularity?
a — Within a quarter century, non-biological intelligence will match the range and subtlety of human intelligence. It will then soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge.
Intelligent nano-robots will be deeply integrated in our bodies, our brains, and our environment, overcoming pollution and poverty, providing vastly extended longevity, full-immersion virtual reality incorporating all of the senses (like “The Matrix”), “experience beaming” (like “Being John Malkovich”), and vastly enhanced human intelligence. The result will be an intimate merger between the technology-creating species and the technological evolutionary process it spawned.
q — And that’s the singularity?
a — No, that’s just the precursor. Non-biological intelligence will have access to its own design and will be able to improve itself in an increasingly rapid redesign cycle. We’ll get to a point where technical progress will be so fast that unenhanced human intelligence will be unable to follow it. That will mark the Singularity.
When will that occur?
I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045. The non-biological intelligence created in that year will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.
q — Why is this called the singularity?
a — The term “singularity” in my book is comparable to the use of this term by the physics community. Just as we find it hard to see beyond the event horizon of a black hole, we also find it difficult to see beyond the event horizon of the historical singularity. How can we, with our limited biological brains, imagine what our future civilization —with its intelligence multiplied trillions-fold — be capable of thinking and doing?
Nevertheless, just as we can draw conclusions about the nature of black holes through our conceptual thinking, despite never having actually been inside one, our thinking today is powerful enough to have meaningful insights into the implications of the singularity. That’s what I’ve tried to do in this book.
q — Okay, let’s break this down. It seems a key part of your thesis is that we will be able to capture the intelligence of our brains in a machine. Indeed.So how are we going to achieve that?
a — We can break this down further into hardware and software requirements. In the book, I show how we need about 10 quadrillion (1016) calculations per second (cps) to provide a functional equivalent to all the regions of the brain. Some estimates are lower than this by a factor of 100. Supercomputers are already at 100 trillion (1014) cps, and will hit 1016 cps around the end of this decade.
https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/dialogue-a-conversation-on-the-singularity#:~:text=q%20%E2%80%94%20What%20is,reversing%20aging%20processes.