On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:57:27AM -0500, Tim Tyler via AGI wrote: > On 19/01/2015 23:31, Matt Mahoney via AGI wrote: > > 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 crazy talk! Well I guess that is already happening for a bunch of people. I came to realize that darwinian fitness dictates offspring, thus the whole anti-reproductive memes are nonesense, but hey if others follow them that's totally fine, more room for my offspring :-D. > > 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. That's also pretty bogus, humans keep earth period. There is no reason for technological life to proliferate on a water-planet, it's much harder to live here for technological life forms than for instance venus, which has high stable temperatures, plenty of wind-power, minimal oxidative stress. Really the majority of non-watery planets are great for technology. The greatest value of earth is it's biological biodiversity, which has been evolving for billions of years. If you have a super-intelligence, it is likely to be curious, thus interested in new things, such as new species and how they work. this can onl be facilitated by maintaining and increasing biodiversity. So limiting destructive technology in biodiverse areas may be highly sought after. So for instance borneo could return to being a jungle, if logging and mowing was outlawed. Can still have diverse permaculture forests, as they can be more diverse and interesting than a plain unmaintained jungle. Anyways point is biology is a very valuable resource, as is adaptive capacity facilated by it's continued diversification. -- Logan ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
