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The future survival of humanity involves creating machines that have all of our knowledge and which can replicate themselves. We can't leave the planet but our
by datavirtue 2y ago
The future survival of humanity involves creating machines that have all of our knowledge and which can replicate themselves. We can't leave the planet but our robot children can. I just wish that I could see what they become.
- SonOfLilit 2y agoSure, that's future survival. Is it of humanity though? Kinda no by definition in your scenario. In general, depends at least if they share our values...
- datavirtue 2y agoValues...values? Hopefully not, since they would be completely useless.
- SonOfLilit 2y agoso say someone builds an unintelligent nanomachine that can survive extreme conditions and can turn any matter it encounters into more of it and launch them into space in random directions... is that "our children" that you would be happy to see replacing us?
- datavirtue 2y agoNo. Fully sized machines. I'm trying to be realistic here.
- SonOfLilit 2y agoBut assume that it _were_ possible. Would you be happy about it, or sad? And why? My point is that not anything we could conceivably create is a child we would like to see replace us (I'd argue for the stronger claim that the only kind of machine-child we would be happy to have replace us is one that contains a derivative of a mind-uploaded human).
- johnnyanmac 2y agoSounds like the exact opposite plot of Wall-E.
- datavirtue 2y agoI might watch that now. That scientist that created all the robots in Mega Man keeps coming to mind. People are going to have to make the decision to build these things to be self-sufficient.
- raxxorraxor 2y agoMountains out of scrap, rivers out of oil and wide circuit plains. It will be absolutely beautiful.