What reason do you?

JumpCrisscross 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> What reason do you?

Me? Not much. Humanity in general? We’re the only sapient, tool-wielding species that we know of on the only complex-life-supporting biosphere we know of.

Until proven otherwise, that—in my view—grants us a charge: to maintain and protect ourselves and said biosphere and to work to understand and disprove our specialness. Depending on your interpretation of “protect,” it might also include spreading life and tool-wielding civilisation.

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pixl97 3 days ago | parent [-]

I mean, this is really post ad hoc on your part. You say you have charge to maintain and protect, but this is just an outcome of your genetic lineage being that of those that survived needed to have a prerogative to survive or they didn't. Our entire biosphere runs on impulse and almost no reason. A machine based 'lifeform' would be nearly the opposite, it's purpose would be with reason.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> You say you have charge to maintain and protect, but this is just an outcome of your genetic lineage being that of those that survived needed to have a prerogative to survive or they didn't Sure. I’m not arguing we are preördained. Just that we have the unique ability to embrace this charge and a unique ability to recognise it. It’s a sword in the stone. Except we already exercise all the powers of the king. The sword represents us acknowledging noble obligations that should accompany those. > Our entire biosphere runs on impulse and almost no reason. A machine based 'lifeform' would be nearly the opposite, its purpose would be with reason We are a product of that same biosphere and often operate on impulse and without reason. The machines would be a product of us.

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WithinReason 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

to propagate my genes

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lymbo 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I got a vasectomy a number of years ago in my mid 20s with 0 kids. I exist to experience things like love, hydrofoil surfing, skiing, and the journey to try to do more of these things. There are many people or trained models that could say I have a wasted existence of sorts, but the universe’s ending will always be the same no matter how many times the power dynamics on earth and beyond shift.

	▲	swat535 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think parent was taking about an evolutionary point of view, not a personal one.

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immibis 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AI will be better at propagating copies of itself than you at yourself. In that sense, it will be more efficient and you will be obsolete.

When thinking about evolution we should be careful not to confuse description with prescription. Evolution theory says that we have lots of copies of things that replicated in the past, and since they are copies, they themselves are likely to be replicators. But it does not say that things should replicate, or that things which don't replicate are defective. It is merely explaining observations of the world.

If we create an AI that replicates more than humans, and do nothing to prevent that, we can end up in an AI-dominated world, or even one where multicellular carbon life is extinct, but that's absolutely not inevitable, just one possibility. We don't have to create a paperclip-maximized world. We totally have the possibility to declare the goal is human happiness or something, not maximum number of replicators.

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pixl97 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So you're saying that we just have to give the AI a command like "Make as many paperclips as possible" and that's all we need, right?

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