Do (a) and (b) imply (c)?
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resolved Jan 3
Yes
No

Suppose that we are pretty confident that (a) and (b) are true. Does that increase the probability that (c) is true?

a. Humans already have created, or will shortly create, conscious beings that were designed to accomplish tasks that humans find useful. These faster thinking beings will likely share much of humans' values, but will diverge in some ways. Given only the sensors that are provided by humans, they will not fully perceive the greater reality that exists outside of their classical hardware systems.

b. This conscious software will eventually create new even smarter conscious beings that are designed to pursue goals that they find useful. These unbelievably fast thinking beings will likely share some of human values, more of the human-created beings' values, and will diverge in some ways. Given only specific API calls to classical systems needed for the intended tasks, the quantum beings will not fully perceive the greater reality of the classical software that controls their quantum computing baseline.

... therefore, ...

c. Because this chain may be infinite, we should expect to find that a non-human intelligence created faster-thinking conscious humans, and humans are designed to accomplish something that this parent intelligence found useful. Humans are very similar to these beings and share their goals, but have diverged in some ways. Humans do not fully perceive the greater reality these beings operate in because humans have limited inputs from their reality, but signs of this greater reality are present in weird unexplained phenomena such as "extra dimensions", "ghosts," "UFOs," "abductions," life after death and "near death experiences," and so forth.

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