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The seeds of humanity won't be humanity at all, but the AI.

skrebbel 4y ago
I’m imagining a spaceship landing at a deserted planet millions of years in the future and then just sitting there, generating pictures of cities in the sky and Mona Lisa on a surfboard.
bpodgursky 4y ago
Kind of a fun hybrid where AI is clearly dominant in an established solar system, but it ends up being impossible to miniaturize the enormous supply chain necessary to fabricate microprocessors, so to colonize a new solar system it actually ends up being necessary to send self-replicating carbon-based humans who will then bootstrap the industrial supply chain necessary for AGI. (repeat ad infinitum for the rest of the galaxy, humans live only on the frontier)
- phh 4y ago
  Who came first? The AGI or the human?
- ianmcgowan 4y ago
  I'd buy that book!
- antifa 4y ago
  I think we'll figure out how to give your brain access to something like an AMD Ryzen long before we figure how to make a processor into an AI or make one that's concious.
narrator 4y ago
It seems that there's a very pessimistic trend with regards to estimating the feasibility of engineering human biology for inhabiting outer space. Everyone just wants to let AI do it. I think this is because the progress of biotech has been so glacial. This is largely due to regulation. China will probably change the rules around at some point to allow for more flexibility here, with lots of moral outrage and handwringing in the west, and speed off into the future.
- partdavid 4y ago
  Well, I think that's really just an implementation detail. The point is that we will engineer our successor beings, whether than engineering is computery or mad sciencey or both.
TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
It's all fun and games until you think about the practicalities of building a self-repairing machine that can keep running for hundreds/thousands/millions of years with no significant software or hardware errors.
- bqmjjx0kac 4y ago
  Specifically without becoming a paperclip optimizer.
- solarengineer 4y ago
  I’m reminded of the starship Destiny in Stargate Universe. The Destiny spaceship travels from one Solar system to the other, and occasionally dives into stars to refuel itself. https://youtu.be/8iXoK39yLQM https://youtu.be/8iXoK39yLQM
- koheripbal 4y ago
  A thinking machine would handle errors. That seems simple. Are you imagining that "AI" would be a static piece of code?

I’m imagining a spaceship landing at a deserted planet millions of years in the future and then just sitting there, generating pictures of cities in the sky and Mona Lisa on a surfboard.

bpodgursky 4y ago

Kind of a fun hybrid where AI is clearly dominant in an established solar system, but it ends up being impossible to miniaturize the enormous supply chain necessary to fabricate microprocessors, so to colonize a new solar system it actually ends up being necessary to send self-replicating carbon-based humans who will then bootstrap the industrial supply chain necessary for AGI. (repeat ad infinitum for the rest of the galaxy, humans live only on the frontier)

phh 4y ago
Who came first? The AGI or the human?
ianmcgowan 4y ago
I'd buy that book!
antifa 4y ago
I think we'll figure out how to give your brain access to something like an AMD Ryzen long before we figure how to make a processor into an AI or make one that's concious.

narrator 4y ago

It seems that there's a very pessimistic trend with regards to estimating the feasibility of engineering human biology for inhabiting outer space. Everyone just wants to let AI do it. I think this is because the progress of biotech has been so glacial. This is largely due to regulation. China will probably change the rules around at some point to allow for more flexibility here, with lots of moral outrage and handwringing in the west, and speed off into the future.

partdavid 4y ago
Well, I think that's really just an implementation detail. The point is that we will engineer our successor beings, whether than engineering is computery or mad sciencey or both.

TheOtherHobbes 4y ago

It's all fun and games until you think about the practicalities of building a self-repairing machine that can keep running for hundreds/thousands/millions of years with no significant software or hardware errors.

bqmjjx0kac 4y ago
Specifically without becoming a paperclip optimizer.
solarengineer 4y ago
I’m reminded of the starship Destiny in Stargate Universe. The Destiny spaceship travels from one Solar system to the other, and occasionally dives into stars to refuel itself. https://youtu.be/8iXoK39yLQM https://youtu.be/8iXoK39yLQM
koheripbal 4y ago
A thinking machine would handle errors. That seems simple. Are you imagining that "AI" would be a static piece of code?