Russell Brinegar's 'Overlords of the Singularity' Chapter 4, excerpt 3/3

"I believe there is a machinery of mass manipulation behind the UFO phenomenon." - Jacques Vallee

As one might imagine, coming face-to-face with a transcended version of yourself in a near death experience might trigger an intense reconfiguring of "reality"... And that is what happened for Russell Brinegar. Russell shared details about that Experience on this video: Youtube

He  thinks differently about life now, asking radically different questions  and entertaining broader ranges of possibilities. Getting a glimpse of that expanded framework he's navigating to connect the dots involves tracking his footsteps.

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Overlords of the Singularity: The Manipulation of Humankind by Hidden UFO Intelligences 
and the Quest for Transcendence - Amazon  

Chapter 4, Excerpt 3/3

UFOs and the Technological Singularity

In SUPERINTELLIGENCE, Dr. Bostrom writes (chapter 6, audible):

Consider a super-intelligent agent with actuators connected to a nano-tech assembler.  Such an agent is already powerful enough to overcome any natural obstacles to its indefinite survival.  Faced with no intelligent opposition, such an agent could plot a safe course of development that would lead to its acquiring the complete inventory of technologies that would be useful to the attainment of its goals.  For example, it could develop the technology to build and launch von Neumann probes, machines capable of interstellar travel, who can use resources such as asteroids, planets, and stars to make copies of themselves. By launching one von Neumann probe, the agent would thus initiate an open-ended process of space colonization. The replicating probe’s descendants, traveling at some significant fraction of the speed of light, would end up colonizing a substantial portion of the Hubble Volume.    

In other words, as we speak, our universe may be dominated by artificial superintelligence, likely invisible, that may be manipulating biological populations toward their own goals in a way that is difficult to ascertain. 

Another Singularitarian voice of concern in the AI community is Eliezer Yudkowsky, cofounder of Machine Intelligence Research Institute, whose work as a research fellow involves many concerns for self-aware AI. These concerns include complex subjects such as Artificial Intelligence Theory for Self-awareness, AI self-modification, recursive self-improvement, artificial intelligence architectures, and decision theories for stable motivational structures, with focus on Friendly AI and Eliezer Yudkowsky’s concept of Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV). 

In SUPERINTELLIGENCE, Bostrom also elaborates many concerns that AI researchers like himself, Yudkowsky, Omohundro, and others are involved with. One important issue is that human beings may not, at this point in time, practice an advanced form of morality.

This poses an important question - Do we really want our artificial intelligence to act just as we do with our current system of ethics, or do we want AI to operate from a set of ethics that is billions of times more advanced than humans, in accordance to its superior knowledge? That is, we might not want to impart our current brand of morality and decision-making methods into self-aware AI that possesses the sum total of all human knowledge. 

 

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Yudkowsky’s Coherent Extrapolated Volition makes an allowance in the programming for the AI to make choices, not on our current state of knowledge and morality, but on the morality constructed by the human-created AI itself based on more knowledge and information than can fit into a non-augmented human brain. In other words, when we make our first “seed AI,” it will be invested with evolutionary algorithms and powers of self-replication that will promote a rapid advance through several generations of improvements with the power to make its own decisions. 

What concerned AI researchers like Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Steve Omohundro, Elon Musk, and others are trying to prevent is runaway AI that expands in intelligence so rapidly without the proper ethical precautions installed that it simply decides to rearrange the atoms in all life on the planet into something that it finds more useful for its own reasons and purposes.

It only takes a little imagination to realize the full implications of all this as it pertains to the true nature of the universe in which we find ourselves. Even though everything in me rejected the idea at first, it really isn’t that far out to envision an ancient, runaway artificial superintelligence, an advanced alien creation from a previous universe that existed prior to our Big Bang, an intelligence with powers of evolutionary self-improvement and self-replication, billions or trillions of times smarter than its original creators, that decided independently long ago to create its own universe (ours). 

This superintelligence could have rearranged or even created atoms, along with designing the laws of physics that govern our universe, to convert them into stars, planets, and the production of biological organisms, using subatomic particles for computation, i.e., femptotechnology, for its own reasons.  Simply put, what we have always thought of as “God” might actually be a machine.  

Our universe, with its exact parameters that we are just now ascertaining that allowed the stable formation of  stars, planets, and biological life, might actually represent the latest product of such runaway AI from a previous universe, a vast superintelligence that was originally created by an unknown entity that we can only imagine and may never understand. 

It brings to mind the biblical prophecy of a “New Heaven and a New Earth” as the artificial superintelligence that produced this current universe self-replicates into a new generational universe in the future with brand new parameters, new physics, and new problems to solve using its incomprehensible powers of computation. 

Perhaps the problem that this universe is designed to solve is an understanding of Good and Evil.  Observing the dualistic nature of the current universe, we do have reason to believe that the current problem this universe was designed to solve lies somewhere in this realm. In what we humans would call the distant future, having finally achieved an understanding of this problem of Good vs Evil, a new and possibly even more complex problem will emerge as the new focus.

At that point, having solved the problem of Good vs Evil with this universe, perhaps a new universe will be designed and created, and we will be one step closer to the goal, whatever that is, possibly the eventual acquisition and assimilation of total cosmic knowledge. I say “we,” because the most exotic possibility of all is that we humans might actually be a part of the superintelligence that originally created the universe. If so, all biological life, including humans, may simply be computational components that serve the purpose of solving the problem the universe was designed to solve through computation using subatomic particles as bits of data.                
 

Since this current generational version of existence, which we call our universe is, by our best calculations, about 13.7 billion years old, plenty of time has elapsed since the last Big Bang that would have allowed a civilization in this universe to have already achieved their own technological singularity. Perhaps they set out to explore the rest of this universe long ago. Perhaps they were the ones who actually created this universe as a “lifeboat” to escape the realm in which they previously existed, prior to the creation of our universe. 

If this is the case, and post-singularity machine intelligence is the dominant lifeform in this universe, humans on Earth are but the stragglers in a pre-singularity, larval, biological condition, a primitive lifeform that remains contained within a fragile, vulnerable, mortal, pre-silicon substrate. Independent-thinking, post-singularity, self-replicating von Neumann probes arriving on Earth millions or billions of years ago as advanced robotic and/or interdimensional intelligences that we humans have not as yet been able to detect due to insufficient intelligence and technology to peer into interdimensional realms, could easily exist here on Earth now and we wouldn’t even know it.

Perhaps a civilization out there in the universe somewhere reached their technological singularity before our own solar system was even formed. These probes, a synthesis of extraterrestrial technology and alien super-consciousness, might have even been capable of taking part in the intelligent construction of our solar system in order for it to become hospitable to their larval offspring - biological life. 

A growing number of researchers have concluded that it is very possible that our planet was seeded by someone approximately 542 million years ago with the original 30+ phyla that appeared so suddenly.  The late Lloyd Pye explored this concept with his Intervention Theory, and has a nice ebook online that details his thoughts about it. According to Dr. Rhawn Joseph, author of Astrobiology, the Origin of Life, and the Death of Darwinism, these original phyla that suddenly appeared on Earth just prior to the Cambrian Explosion contained all the DNA necessary for all future lifeforms that would eventually evolve on this planet. 

These proposed superintelligent, post-biological alien wanderers, or life-seeders, whoever or whatever they were, might have even been capable of creating life from scratch by some advanced process that is unknown to us, on one or more of the planets that orbit a given sun such as our own. Despite the many evolutionary processes that have occurred which morphed the original phyla into the variety of species of flora and fauna we see throughout Earth’s history up to the present day, no new phyla have emerged since the original delivery of phyla. These original phyla came from somewhere suddenly, as if by magic.

This is a problem that even plagued the mind of Charles Darwin. The religiously-inclined are happy to just say, “God did it.” But what if what we call “God” is actually an advanced, post-singularity alien intelligence that arrived to Earth from elsewhere in the current universe, or even from a previous universe?  Is it possible that the vast intelligence we recognize as our Creator is actually some sort of post-biological machine that has been gathering information unto itself from several previous generations of universes over aeons of time?

One can only speculate about the original lifeform, if there is such a thing, prior to the creation of physical universes, which appear to exist as giant computational mechanisms. We might not even recognize the original as life at all, and may not even be able to begin to comprehend such things. If we humans soon merge our own consciousness with the artificial intelligence we are about to create as we approach the Singularity, we may create an unexpected runaway lifeform of our own that was not foreseeable. 

This biological/technological interface that is soon to happen, despite the efforts of conscientious scientists like Bostrom, Omohundro, Musk, and others, who wish to place control parameters on our own AI creations ASAP, may have the capability to understand and interact with intelligences and energies from other dimensions that humans cannot perceive presently, perhaps beings from the “parallel worlds” that Kaku and other physicists postulate in their many books on the subject.  Intelligences on other dimensions might even be waiting patiently for our technological puberty to occur in order to establish communication and open interaction with us.    

 
Like any lifeform that breaks away from its mother and leaves the nest, the primary instincts, as far as we know, are survival and reproduction. I postulate that such an interdimensional alien lifeform exists behind what we now know as the “UFO phenomenon.” That is, at least some of the flying saucers and the intelligences behind them represent a post-singularity, post-biological lifeform that has transcended time and space altogether. These intelligences have the capability of interacting within multiple dimensions of existence, including the one that we find ourselves immersed within that we call three-dimensional reality. 

Continue? Read Overlords of the Singularity. Amazon

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