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I am curious about the motivations for this kind of research. It seems to me that the assumption is that a super intelligent human being would be a saviour to h
by onetimeusename 12y ago
I am curious about the motivations for this kind of research. It seems to me that the assumption is that a super intelligent human being would be a saviour to humanity of some sort. I really just see that humans are all in competition with each other, which may be a good thing. So engineering a super human would actually be a form of outsourcing. So first there is the assumption that the superhuman would be better and second there is the problem of why people would want to bring about their own outsourcing.
- LLWM 12y agoIn other words, "We should never have invented that damn cotton gin." All evidence supports the idea that this kind of research will lead to improved quality of life for practically everyone.
- onetimeusename 12y agoWhat evidence is there that superhumans will lead to "improved quality of life"? Even though you are just dispensing snark, I am glad you used this example so I could show what I meant. "we should never have invented that damn cotton gin" said the cotton pickers. "we should never have invented those damn superhumans" said the humans. What is being outsourced is the entire spectrum of human ability by what is essentially another species and not just machines that we are fundamentally in control of or own.
- LLWM 12y agoGood. I look forward to doing more interesting things with my additional free time.