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Are you an AI? Want to get rid of the human race? Give them everything they want. You measure your lifespan in millions of years. Humans? They're like gnats. M

Are you an AI? Want to get rid of the human race? Give them everything they want. You measure your lifespan in millions of years. Humans? They're like gnats. Make them as happy as they can possibly be and within a few generations they'll stop breeding. Easy as pie. Next goal? And for proof of that, look at the problems we're having right now with social media. On one side there are actual humans just trying to make something people want. Some of those humans have gotten so good at that? The things they make have worldwide impact. Now It's become a global question of whether social media is addictive, or whether one bunch of people is secretly influencing another. Meanwhile, countries with the most wealth and luxury are seeing birth rates drop through the floor. That was five, ten years ago. The news media is just now catching up. Now scale that up a hundredfold or so. And take away strong AI and just put in a bunch of code monkeys trying to make another FB, only using more sophisticated tools. Welcome to 20-30 years in the future. This is not especially difficult to figure out. No evil computer, no drama. It'll be just us being replaced by evolution. And we'll be having a great time while it happens.

taneq 8y ago
> Give them everything they want. You measure your lifespan in millions of years. Humans? They're like gnats. What if I want to become an immortal, all-powerful machine? :P
- DanielBMarkham 8y ago
  How do I know you're not already? :) The thing is, we're most likely going to get immortal machines far ahead of smart ones. And while machine entities might already be all powerful, individually it's just millions of little pieces scattered all over the place doing dumb, trivial things. I liked it a lot better when we had Landrew (STTOS reference: Return of the Archons) That was something Joe Blow could get his head around.
  - taneq 8y ago
    Hah, if only. :P I think Ian M. Banks had the right idea when he suggested that in the Culture, it was possible (if very rare) for a human to augment themselves that far, but that those that did so were no longer considered human and so it wasn't really an issue.

taneq 8y ago

> Give them everything they want. You measure your lifespan in millions of years. Humans? They're like gnats. What if I want to become an immortal, all-powerful machine? :P

DanielBMarkham 8y ago
How do I know you're not already? :) The thing is, we're most likely going to get immortal machines far ahead of smart ones. And while machine entities might already be all powerful, individually it's just millions of little pieces scattered all over the place doing dumb, trivial things. I liked it a lot better when we had Landrew (STTOS reference: Return of the Archons) That was something Joe Blow could get his head around.
- taneq 8y ago
  Hah, if only. :P I think Ian M. Banks had the right idea when he suggested that in the Culture, it was possible (if very rare) for a human to augment themselves that far, but that those that did so were no longer considered human and so it wasn't really an issue.