[ColdStream]

The question is that if it can go beyond the upper limit of human mind complexity, would we be able to understand it or use it?

I cannot remember who it was but there was an author who was traveling with their dog. They noticed that their dog would always pee on various tree to mark them as their territory. On their travels they ended up need some giant Red wood trees and figured, "I want to give my dog the ultimate claim of territory."

So he took his dog up to the Red wood tree and it did nothing, instead the dog wandered over to a smaller sapling and peed on that instead. The problem was the Red wood was so big and alien to the dog, it didn't recognize it as a tree.

I do wonder how many things are like that in our universe, that even if we could see them, we just wouldn't be able to understand it because it just goes beyond what we are capable of understanding. We think we have a grasp of the universe and use models to codify it but that is no guarantee that we can truly 'get it'.

Could higher level AI code be like that, would we know when we see it?

[psychoslave]

If we would be able to act that consciously, humanity would be flourishing without anyone sent to war or starvation.

It doesn't look like we are that bright, at least collectively. And if they are individual which are really above everyone else on that matter and the rest, like maybe you but definitely not me, then their individual power seems to be unable to move us all away from our collective ill habits.

[jambalaya8]

Excellent post.