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RE: The Singularity by cryptoctopus

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· @cryptoctopus · (edited)
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As Dr. Michio Kaku said that, at this point, the machine would probably want us out of their way and that our best bet would be to merge with them...
I would almost call it a "Second Genesis".

As in the book of Genesis, the serpent promised that if Adam & Eve hate "the fruit of the tree of knowledge":
1. That they shall be like Gods
2. That they shall have increased Knowledge
3. That they shall never die

**Sounds like  a rehash of the oldest story in the book**...literally. The consequence of this may not be as "transcendental" as most people believe.  We may become disembodied spirits condemn to never die. Not to sound too biblical but it is said: "they shall seek death and will not find it". What if it is a curse rather than a gift?

It's interesting that to this day, the symbol of science and knowledge remains the serpent on a tree...food for thought.
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@clains ·
Who knows, maybe religion got something right after all. ;)
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@macrochip ·
Thank you for your input!

I agree that man's role as the dominant lifeform on this planet will be contested as soon as the first super-intelligence comes into existence, there is no question in my mind about that. It's all about how we handle such radical transition which poses an unrivaled evolutionary challenge to us as a species.

I chose to ignore this implication in my article for practical reasons, but I'm happy to discuss it anyway. 

If we merged with the entity, as you describe it, the "price" we'd have to pay would not necessarily be an infinite lifespan but rather having to choose the moment of our own death. Maybe at a certain amount of accumulated and stored knowledge and experience an individual will develop a natural, though non-physical "tiredness" from existence? I think we can't anticipate such feeling for which a word has still to be invented. However, personally I can already declare I'd rather "shut myself down" before I'd have to witness the heat death of the universe.

If we decided not to merge with the superior entity, there's not much to discuss. Movies frequently portray superintelligences as curious and marveling at humans but in the real world us fragile meatbags have obviously no utility to them other than matter they can process.
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