On 19/01/2015 23:31, Matt Mahoney via AGI wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Tim Tyler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
IMO, the way it is likely to go is that we will figure out how to back up
and simulate human minds - after we develop artificial intelligence.
That would seem to make more sense, but I'm not so sure. Humans are
highly optimized to reproduce, fear death, and then die. We could
redesign ourselves with any goals we wanted. But whatever we design
will have to compete with humans, and evolution will ultimately pick
the winners.
IMO, Japan illustrates the way forwards: sub-replacement fertility for humans.
Yes humans will be subject to natural selection - but natural selection also
acts
on cultural variation (memes). For the memes, diverting human reproductive
resources into meme-spreading activities is what seems to pay. Priests are
the classic illustration of this.
In the conflict of interest between memes and human DNA, memes have a much
more rapid generation time. They are likely to out-evolve us. Also they won't be
dependent on human hosts once machine intelligence comes along - and so
won't suffer if there are fewer humans to host them.
It looks as though most of the remaining humans are likely to be effectively
wireheaded: sucked into virtual reality and manipulated using machine-
generated orgasms that happen to result in few human offspring.
That's not to suggest that humans will eventually die out. We are a major
evolutionary transition. We'll be preserved in future history simulations
and used to study how the transition to superintelligence could have gone.
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