On 21/01/2015 02:38, Logan Streondj via AGI wrote:
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.
No doubt our descendants will value biodiversity in their museums.
However history shows that we don't value biodiversity that much.
We're already in a anthropocentric mass extinction. The biodiversity
of Earth will probably prove to contain only relatively insignificant knowledge
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since it is based on a one-size fits all genetic meterial, and an illogically
restricted set of amino acids and proteins. Parts of Earth may be kept
as nature parks for their historical value. However we already see tarmac,
concrete and solar panels expanding on the Earth - displacing organic
forms. Cities are visible from space as blisters on the planet. Humans
bring machines, and machines bring nanotechnology and robots -
which tend to compete with the organic realm for resources.
The idea that machines will have a better time elsewhere in the
universe doesn't matter. On Earth, life penetrates every niche.
Mammals have a better time on land - but they reinvaded the ocean
anyway - because they could. Similarly if machines can survive on
Earth, then they will do so.
People regularly imagine machines expanding into the universe and
leaving the earth to the humans. It seems like wishful thinking to me.
The earth is ground zero - the HQ of civilization and its first encampment.
That will make it desirable real estate for all players for a while yet.
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