Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind
to reveal everything at once because every revelation must be followed by
an action, and if the world isn’t ready for the action, certain revelations have
to wait. The multi-billion AI Industry knows this all too well, and IBM—a
giant in developing AI—agrees wholeheartedly. IBM states that new
technology usually rather comes in short steps than giant leaps, and this is
for many reasons. 31
Because of self-replication capabilities, nanotechnology in the long
term will be cheap. Scientists who have followed Feynman’s line of
thinking know that everything from the smallest particle up to the largest
robot can, with atoms artificially put in the right sequence, self-replicate.
This certainly sounds as science-fiction to many, but later in this book, we
will see that our media are already exposing this near future possibility. J.
Storrs Hall 32 explains in more detail how this works. I know it’s a little
technical, but I want to show how mRNA (messenger RNA), transferring
the information from the DNA/genes in living organisms to specify certain
gene expressions, is required in order to achieve this goal of self-replication:
Ribosomes 33 manufacture all the proteins used in all living things on this
planet. A typical ribosome is relatively small (a few thousand cubic
nanometers) and is capable of building almost any protein by stringing
together amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) in a precise linear
sequence. To do this, the ribosome has a means of grasping a specific amino
acid (more precisely, it has a means of selectively grasping a specific
transfer RNA, which in turn is chemically bonded by a specific enzyme to a
specific amino acid), of grasping the growing polypeptide, and of causing the
specific amino acid to react with and be added to the end of the
polypeptide[9].
The instructions that the ribosome follows in building a protein are
provided by mRNA (messenger RNA). This is a polymer formed from the
four bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil. A sequence of several
hundred to a few thousand such bases codes for a specific protein. The
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New York Times, Feb. 28, 2016, “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence Unfolds in Small Steps”
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http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/secret_projects/nanotech.htm
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The ribosome … is a complex molecular machine found within all living cells, that serves as the site of biological
protein synthesis (translation). Ribosomes link amino acids together in the order specified by messenger RNA
(mRNA) molecules. Ribosomes consist of two major components: the small ribosomal subunit, which reads the
RNA, and the large subunit, which joins amino acids to form a polypeptide chain. Each subunit is composed of
one or more ribosomal RNA (rRNA) molecules and a variety of proteins. The ribosomes and associated molecules
are also known as the translational apparatus. [Wikipedia]
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