AI Researcher: Machine Civilization Stability and Frictionless Replication
kellerjordan0 · x · 2026-08-15
Keller Jordan notes that human civilizations are highly regulated by our inability to copy minds and our mortality, while machine civilizations will have these controls turned off. He questions whether a global machine civilization would be stable, comparing it to training a MoE without load balancing.
Key points:
- Energy Gap: A human brain uses 50GJ over a lifespan. Using 50GJ with current AI tech gets you basically nowhere; training just Llama 3 8B took 3,000GJ.
- Core Advantage: The power of machine intelligence is not about being a more efficient human brain, but about frictionless replication. Creating 1,000,000 human doctors is costly, but creating 1,000,000 medical AIs requires training once and then cheaply copying.
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