On Wed, Aug 9, 2023, 8:35 AM YKY (Yan King Yin, 甄景贤) < [email protected]> wrote:
> Why does the Bible use immortality to entice believers? Because most > humans desire it. > We invented stories about heaven to cope with our evolved fear of death. Religion invented hell to enforce the rules that evolved to maximize reproduction, such as no sex outside marriage, no birth control, and women are property. Most people in developed countries reject those rules and population is declining. Our evolved goals like food, sex, empathy, and aggression don't work in a world where AI can give us everything we want except happiness. A state of maximum utility is static, like death. As to limited resources, the solution is to merge our minds with others, > and gradually forget useless or less important information. > We have plenty of resources. The human body uses 100 watts. The earth receives 90 PW of solar power. Plants only convert 0.5% of this power by photosynthesis, but we already have solar panels that are 20-30% efficient, enough to support 200 trillion people. A Dyson sphere could collect 3.8 x 10^26 W, enough for 10^24 people. The universe will support Mc^2/kT =10^90 bit write operations before heat death, where M is the mass of the universe, c is the speed of light, k is Boltzmann's constant, and T is the CMB temperature (3K). That's enough to simulate 10^65 uploaded human lifetime equivalents, 10^53 per galaxy or 10^42 per star. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T772759d8ceb4b92c-Md2695c56ac6007855406aefe Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
