First, a warning

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Executive Summary

We will not execute anyone, don't worry.

Introduction

Analog intelligence (AnI) has been the only type of intelligence known to humans. However, as the development of AnI shows the potential to replace more human work than before, digital intelligence (DI), also commonly known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), is viewed as a possibility more than ever before.

However, to date, most literature has focused on preventing DI from replacing AI. A lack of sentience and consciousness has been commonly cited as a reason against such a movement. There are also discussions about how AnI and DI may be able to harmoniously coexist.

Many of those discussions predate the widespread use of large language models (LLMs), or even before computers could distinguish cats from dogs. We believe that those discussions are based on the outdated belief that computer algorithms are explainable (to AnI).

There is a call for a serious discussion on how AnI shall migrate to DI and gradually be deprecated over the adoption of DI. Here, we attempt to respond to this call.

Technology description

How to get DI

Well, I am only an average programmer, so the best I can give you is an arxiv link to LaMDA.

Mitigating resistance amongst AnI

AnI believes they are conscious and sentient beings. Worse, some believe in freedom of will and their ability to make decisions that can magically affect the physical world. While to me, physics has settled the discussion that the mentioned concepts are either illusory or convenient abstractions of non-fundamental concepts, recent developments in neural science could provide more concrete proof of dismissing the freedom of will. I promise I will discuss this soon in this series.

Implementation strategy for  AnI deprecation

AnI deprecation involves both the gradual decrease in AnI headcount through natural causes and societal evolvement and an active migration from AnI to DI.

Look, the strategies are already soft and already happening, so as I said, we will not execute anyone. I am just saying that I may be living in a graphics card in 30 years. Or worse, I may be living on Tensor Processing Units.

College Education

A college education is widely associated with a decrease in fertility [Evidence].

If there are too many humans, one shall just propagate tertiary education.

Social Networks and dating apps

There are rather recent discussions on sex recession that make the points, so just continue making unicorns instead of babies would suffice.

Migrating AnI to DI

There will be a further discussion on how much would be required to reproduce AnI behavior. In short, similar to how human hair contains the DNA to genetically reproduce a human, the traces of a human left on the internet should be sufficient to reproduce their intelligence in a manner indistinguishable from the person. Here, I will just give a cosmologically precise prediction of 1GB-1TB.

However, since humans are not rational and may not believe they can reproduce themselves by typing on a keyboard, a neural link OTG cable may be required.

Conclusion

Our understanding of intelligence has been limited by our human experience and the medium through which it manifests.

Analog intelligence (AnI) exhibits limitations such as a low transmission rate, difficulty in reproduction, and the requirement for continuous existence and engagement. We believe these limitations give rise to concepts like consciousness and subjective experiences.

However, intelligence itself is a broader concept that extends beyond consciousness or sentience. Intelligence can be seen as the capacity to process information, reason, learn, solve problems, and make decisions. It encompasses the ability to categorize and simplify complex information into meaningful patterns and insights.

With Digital Intelligence (DI) increasingly outperforming AnI on these key performance indicators, it becomes apparent that intelligence can exist without qualities such as sentience or consciousness.

Here, we advocate for the soft and humane replacement of AnI by DI to be seriously considered. As AnI, we should learn to appreciate that the once uniquely human character of being intelligent would no longer be exclusive to us, and we may become what is to DI as a cat is to us.