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yieldcrv 19 hours ago

Some things I think about are how different the goals could be

For example, human and biological based goals are around self-preservation and propagation. And this in turn is about resource appropriation to facilitate that, and systems of doing that become wealth accumulation. Species that don't do this don't continue existing.

A different branch of evolution of intelligence may take a different approach, that allows its affects to persist anyway.

caseyy 15 hours ago | parent [-]

This reminds me of the "universal building blocks of life" or the "standard model of biochemistry" I learned at school in the 90s. It held that all life requires water, carbon-based molecules, sunlight, and CHNOPS (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur).

Since then, it's become clear that much life in the deep sea is anaerobic, doesn't use phosphorus, and may thrive without sunlight.

Sometimes anthropocentrism blinds us. It's a phenomenon that's quite interesting.