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There are an unbounded number of concerns that could result in the COMPLETE EXTINCTION OF ALL HUMANS AND ALL LIFE that cannot be anticipated. Why are you fixate
by mcguire 3y ago
There are an unbounded number of concerns that could result in the COMPLETE EXTINCTION OF ALL HUMANS AND ALL LIFE that cannot be anticipated. Why are you fixated on this particular one?
- digging 3y agoBecause some of the smartest and most well funded humans all over the planet are spending their careers making it more and more likely by the day. Nobody is aiming asteroids at Earth or trying to rotate nearby massive stars to point their poles at Earth.
- mcguire 3y agoOne notes that historically (and probably currently), some of the smartest and most well funded humans all over the planet have spent their careers preventing one or more deities from killing us all. And yet I find myself an atheist.
- digging 3y agoThat pithy analogy makes no sense. Nobody in history has ever been actively working on creating a deity with measurable progress. Say what you mean - do you believe it is physically impossible to create a superhuman AGI? If so, how do you argue that our physical brains can't be replicated or surpassed by metal without asserting the existence of some metaphysical soul that makes us possible?