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Can you point an outsider towards some reading that will help me make sense of the statement "Biological humanity will ideally be obsolete in the long term."?
by flycaliguy 9y ago
Can you point an outsider towards some reading that will help me make sense of the statement "Biological humanity will ideally be obsolete in the long term."?
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoNothing directly making the case exists as far as I know. The simplest metaphor I always make is that it's the same as the elderly being comfortable dying knowing that their offspring are off living their lives. In this case it's humanity that's dying and AGI is our offspring. I mean we're doomed as a species in the long run anyway - that's well understood evolutionary biology - so lets take control of that and engineer our offspring directly. Here's Lawrence Krauss making the case in a roundabout way: "What if our descendants aren't carbon based, what's wrong with that?" https://youtu.be/gLKmKqrNUKY?t=9m29s https://youtu.be/gLKmKqrNUKY?t=9m29s
- sjg007 9y agoMost likely we will upload ourselves into the matrix/framework...