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Do humans strive to improve the existence of fish? Do we optimize the entirety of the oceans for our own enrichment, or for the enjoyment of fish? Maybe someday
by ihsw 13y ago
Do humans strive to improve the existence of fish? Do we optimize the entirety of the oceans for our own enrichment, or for the enjoyment of fish? Maybe someday, but not today.
Fish cannot fathom the meaning of a motor vehicle and we would similarly be unable to immediately understand the pursuits of an AI, so why should an AI attempt to involve humans in their pursuits?
- Houshalter 13y agoHumans don't care about fish, except maybe for some aesthetic value of "nature" which an AI might not have. We do kill lower species all the time anyways, in our pursuit of expanding civilization and supporting our economies. One could only imagine what a superintelligence with advanced technology could do to the Earth to serve it's purposes.
- logfromblammo 13y agoI think you answered your own question there, or at least showed why asking it is pointless. Once AI alters itself past our capacity to understand it, we can only fall back to the answers to the "why" questions provided by theology. It won't help us understand our descendants, but it will help us deal with the fallout. For all we know, AIs might play the Earth-human game just like we play The Sims. How terrifying is that?