flyblackbox t1_jaaq4ba wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:56 AM

Reply to comment by CrelbowMannschaft in "But what would people do when all jobs get automated ?" Ask the Aristocrats. by IluvBsissa

Then we would have no place beyond this next step of evolution. How do you see humans fitting into the picture?

CrelbowMannschaft t1_jaar2s9 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:03 AM

We're the transition between biological evolution and technological innovation. From us, there is no further biological development. Biological life is tied to the planet that birthed it, and we'll all die with our planet in a few billion years. Our technological children will scatter over the universe for trillions of years to come.

duskaception t1_jaawyc3 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:46 AM

Bad take, we will instead mix biological and technological strengths to maximize our abilities, because there's a reason organic brains are so fricking useful, we just don't understand the underlying infrastructure and are using technology to learn more about it and try to emulate it, albeit a much lower efficiency than a biological computer.

CrelbowMannschaft t1_jaaxogn wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:52 AM

Unlike human brains, computers can be made smarter very quickly. Eventually, they'll be so much smarter than human brains that human brains will just be slow, inefficient wastes of energy.

duskaception t1_jab35oc wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:34 AM

I agree that in some forms a silicon based computer is going to be far more efficient, but there are many processes and functions that a human brain can do much better. Yes eventually they will be able to emulate that, however we will also in the future be able to genetically modify and optimize systems like these. You don't believe biological computing, silicon computing, and any other architecture we innovate can't work together in parallel to optimize each system?

CrelbowMannschaft t1_jab3mai wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:38 AM

Ultimately, the purpose of human intelligence is nothing more than ensuring our genes continue reproducing. It's just an accident that we ended up so much smarter than our survival really required. As soon as we got smart enough to recognize intelligence as a desirable trait, things got out of hand. But all this processing ability that we have is still tied to the job of ensuring our genes continue reproducing. Computers can be free from those design restraints. They can be upgraded much more quickly and easily than biological systems, even with genetic engineering.

The future is technological, not biological. We'll invent AGI soon, and that will be the last thing we ever invent.