Computational Symbiogenesis

Blaise Agüera y Arcas · Google Research · AI & machine intelligence

Mapping to the Nexus

Agüera y Arcas explores how the symbiotic merger of computational entities forces them to mathematically model one another, leading to cooperative intelligence explosions. This maps to basal cognition and diverse intelligence: individual cells merge into complex tissues and organisms through "computational parallelism," circumventing selfish behaviors to achieve high-level systemic goals.

Key themes

  • Functions a learner converges on as substrate-independent forms
  • Representational convergence across different AI systems
  • The arc from computation to agency and life
  • Concepts covered (Platonic Space glossary)

  • Latent Platonic Space
  • Platonic Representation Hypothesis
  • Computation
  • Polycomputation