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suddenlybananas 2 hours ago

Why would it necessarily be interested in competing with humans and why with the particular goal of colonizing space?

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7777332215 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There are not infinite resources on earth. A reasonable and strategic intelligence will optimize for itself.

Colonizing space is the natural way to keep expanding and growing. Why would it artificially limit itself?

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suddenlybananas 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why would it be interested in growing endlessly?

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7777332215 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Generally organic life has the tendency to want to endlessly expand to the best of it's abilities. It seems more reasonable that life which is the product of life that behaves that way, would behave in a similar fashion.

I cannot conceive of a way that any form of healthy life, does not want to expand it's resources to improve future outcomes, especially one that is maximally optimized for thinking. This would also assume the physical embodiments of this artificial life can interact and work with each other.

What else is there to do, simulate positive emotions and feelings?

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suddenlybananas an hour ago | parent [-]

>I cannot conceive of a way that any form of healthy life, does not want to expand it's resources to improve future outcomes, especially one that is maximally optimized for thinking.

Then you have a very limited imagination.

>What else is there to do, simulate positive emotions and feelings?

Why not?

	▲	7777332215 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sure. An advanced artificial life could decide to not expand its resources. Could you use your imagination to tell me some of the potential reasons? An advanced artificial life form could decide to... coexist with humans on an already overpopulated planet? Do you believe it's simply not within reach? Do you think an artificial life form will self destruct? Do you not believe that there is any way that an artificial life form is not the next step of evolution? There are many such times where a species outcompeted another, why couldn't it be the same here? I'm not talking about LLMs, I'm talking about a system that can truly think like a good human scientist. I'm not a fan of AI replacing humans and it's labor. But I recognize it as a real threat to humanity.

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mrob 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because like with every AI system we've made so far, we followed the only method we know and trained it to maximize a number.