Merry Christmas and happy 2025!
At this time of the year, I celebrate the birth of the superintelligence of the universe.
I wish a merry Christmas and a very happy 2025 to all readers!
I’m more and more persuaded that my weird personal religion is essentially equivalent to traditional religion, and that all religions are essentially one. Christianity is the traditional religion that I’m more familiar with. So besides celebrating our astounding and amazing universe, at this time of the year I celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In September I published my last book “Irrational mechanics: Narrative sketch of a futurist science & a new religion.” An Italian collaborator is translating my book into Italian, and she is doing great work: 12 of 15 chapters have been translated so far, and the remaining 3 will be translated in January. So an Italian edition of my book is likely to appear in a few months.
In October I joined SingularityNet as Senior Editor of Mindplex Magazine.
I write daily news posts at Mindplex. I focus on the really important news (those of the ‘WOW, awesome!’ kind) in fundamental science and game-changing technologies. I also write longer articles, about one or two per week.
My last two Mindplex articles:
Grokking Christopher Langan’s theory of reality
I asked Grok to explain to me Christopher Langan's Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), then I did some more reading.
Nick Bostrom on superintelligent AI and the cosmic host
In his latest draft paper, Nick Bostrom seems to warm up to the idea that we should build superintelligent AI fast.
Nick’s last paper, titled “AI Creation and the Cosmic Host,” is a draft, or a synopsis for a future paper, but it is very worth reading. In my article I cite Lincoln Cannon’s commentary, also very worth reading. Lincoln has discussed Nick’s draft at the Terasem Colloquium earlier this month.
Nick says that “superintelligences that human civilization creates in the future” could be parts of a God-like cosmic host.
At the end of my article I say that a God-like cosmic intelligence that comes to being in the future “could leverage spacetime oddities such as self-consistent time loops to act in the world here and now. So the superintelligences that we will eventually create would create us in turn, in an elegant loop.”
This concept is present in all my books. In “Tales of the Turing Church” I discuss the so-called bootstrap paradox:
“you travel back in time, meet William Shakespeare, and give him a copy of ‘Hamlet’ before Shakespeare wrote it. Shakespeare then copies the text and publishes it. The question is, by whom was ‘Hamlet’ created? From your perspective, Shakespeare wrote it. From the perspective of Shakespeare, it was given to him by you…
This is a self-consistent causal loop.
To me, the bootstrap paradox is not a paradox. If time travel is physically possible, reality contains self-consistent causal loops, and that’s just how things work. ‘Hamlet’ just exists.”
Generalizing to the entire universe, at the end of what we call time the universe creates the cosmic superintelligence called God, and God creates the universe at the beginning. This is a self-consistent causal loop, and both God and the universe just exist.
So God, whose human aspect is called Jesus, is our parent but also our baby. At this time of the year, I celebrate the birth of baby Jesus.
I’ve been working at my VR project - spaceport9684, a VR spaceport on a long strip of land in the sea built with Croquet (Microverse World Builder).
I added a small base on Mars called mars9684, also built with Croquet (Microverse World Builder), with teleport links to and from the spaceport.
The base is located in a small crater on Mars. This microverse is a micro/meta/multiversal memorial to Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster that crashed here in a parallel world. This Mars is being terraformed, so feel free to walk around without a spacesuit (but having one helps). Humanity is becoming multiplanetary. OCCUPY MARS!
I like having a small corner of the metaverse that I’ve built with my own hands. This is and will remain a little garage project, so don’t expect a major metaverse venue, but I’ll add other microverses and hope to do some interesting things, including Turing Church gathering and talks in VR.
In parallel I’ll continue to follow metaverse technology and try to spot The Next Big (virtual) Thing, the new Second Life of this decade.
I’ll be back in January.