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You might compare author Hugo de Garis's position on deism with the Simulation Argument - i.e. our present projections of technological progress shape the expec
by reasonattlm 16y ago
You might compare author Hugo de Garis's position on deism with the Simulation Argument - i.e. our present projections of technological progress shape the expected chance that we live within a reality manufactured by beings very much like our own descendants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis
de Garis' works are well worth reading, though like many AI-focused futurists - such as those associated with the Singularity Insitute - I think he gives too little weight to comparative advantage when projecting future interactions between beings of vastly different capabilities.
- khafra 16y agoYou might give it too much weight--remember, comparitive advantage says humans have something to offer AIs; it doesn't say whether that something is worth more than our care and feeding or constituent atoms. It's easy for the income level guaranteed by comparitive advantage to fall below subsistence income; it happened to most horses a century ago.