I like the image of a person in the woods 100 miles from civilization in a cabin, no technology, how much impact can they have on the world? Then add a loaded MacBook and Starlink, now how much?

I agree this sort of rhymes with dualism, but it’s different. Substrate independence doesn’t say mind floats free of matter; it says matter can realize the same causal pattern in more than one way

Substrate independence only requires an abstraction boundary above which is information processing, and below which are the sometimes messy physical details of how that information processing is manifest.

I disagree substrate independent “intelligence” requires dualism. What it requires is just the belief that not everything meat brains do is required, that some of it (like say glial cells, or microtubules) are implementation details, in the same way boron and phosphorous are in silicon.

The job of the futurist is not to predict the car. It’s to predict the traffic jam. The downstream consequences of AI software development are just peaky out of the icy waters.

Someone else commented don’t send me a pull request with code, just send me the prompt you used to generate the code and I’ll generate it myself, on top of latest so no merge issues.

Some are speculating the role of libraries might change, and many might go away. Antirez (Redis) said he had an annoying C++ dependency and AI coded a C version of just the part he needed, which was tiny and ran faster. More of that coming.