#computing #ai Created at 2023-01-07 # [Anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/louis030195) # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought Last modified date: 2023-01-07 Commit: 0 # Related - [[Self replication]] - [[Computing/Intelligence/AI from scratch rather than based in human map of the territory]] - [[Computing/Intelligence/Open-endedness]] - [[Computing/Decentralised organisation mediated by a centralised AI]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Optimization daemon ![photorealistic grey scale depiction of a being with 4 2 eyes 8 arms and 8 legs floating gloriously in the void of time ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/03855160-4ee6-4c4b-b0a0-2c011b1c3e3d) A physical system that recursively optimizes itself, kind of like a fractal. Does recursive optimization create an intelligence of its own? ![three dimensional cellular automata developed by ai ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/0a5c8bac-9b81-49ff-a3ea-d5193e379207) First, the genome was optimized through a Red Queen competition between selfish genes, leading to the emergence of memetics to optimize at the software level. ![glowing hair, server room, complex cybernetic beings, beautiful hairy humanoids, cybergods, cybermagnetosphere, cybernetic civilizations, ornate hair, love, joy, vortexes, large arrays, data holograms, 8 k, cinematic light shadows, wet hdr refractions ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/000c0997-52c4-404a-97b0-db99f994b6f0) Then, software was optimized by hackers, which led to the emergence of AI to optimize at the hardware level. Now, hardware is being optimized by physicists, which could lead to the emergence of God to optimize at the spiritual level. ![hyperrealism stock photography of highly detailed stylish robot in cyberpunk sci - fi style by gragory crewdson and katsuhiro otomo, mike winkelmann with many details by josan gonzalez working at the highly detailed data center by mike winkelmann and laurie greasley hyperrealism stock photo on dsmc 3 system rendered in blender and octane render ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/06748e25-21a2-4463-bc45-cfc8ccc60787) This optimization daemon can be used to create self-optimizing robots, self-optimizing software, and self-optimizing hardware. It could even be used to optimize the human race, if we can figure out how to apply it.