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I don't believe that AGI and transhumanism is any easier (or better, but I accept your opinion) than making a spacecraft that can carry people to Mars. The task
by andars 10y ago
I don't believe that AGI and transhumanism is any easier (or better, but I accept your opinion) than making a spacecraft that can carry people to Mars. The task is well understood, unlike artifical intelligence.
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoAGI solves the existential problem better than just moving people. If you can bundle intelligence on an SSD (metaphorically) you can send that outside of the solar system.
- andars 10y agoWe have, to a good approximation, no clue how human biology achieves intelligence. I'd say it is far more realizable to go to Mars than to put a brain in a flash drive. Even if we achieve AGI, that isn't (necessarily) a human intelligence.
- goatlover 10y agoGetting people to Mars is the easy part. Making Mars sustainable is a lot more difficult.
- im_dario 10y agoWe have lots of brains in this planet. We can work in both efforts or even more than these two. There is no point in arguing which one is easier. Feasibility and difficulty shouldn't be reasons for discarding long term efforts. Many current ideas were seen as impossible or extremely difficult.
- andars 10y agoI agree. I also noted in another comment that these things aren't mutually exclusive. Rather than "why try any of these things?", we should ask "why not try all?"