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Originally Posted by galacsi
Reading this story about post-biological entities which might transcend and may be wipe us in the future , i had these thoughts
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Why wipe? Maybe they just outdo us in efficiency.
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: First it is not the first time a read such things and nobody seems to object. Maybe people are too astonished to react or does not take this seriously ?
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I've seen plenty of objections and arguments on the subject before this article. Some dating back to before I was born.
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And is it only an American thing ? A puritan thing ?
(No more flesh , no more biological desires , pure intellectual drive .... )
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Let's not assume that we know how AI's or downloaded beings would feel or what their viewpoints would be. They might not be coldly logical; Maybe they'd be capable of hyper-emotions far more sublime and complex than we can concieve.
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And do you really believe an artificial intelligence can be build ? Because when we see the very poor results of decades of research it seems at most very far in the future.
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The article mentions 7.5 billion years of civilization as a baseline. Seems like long enough to me.
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