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I don't read all the shallow articles on the coming AI apocalypse, but I gave this one a try. I was a bit disappointed about the lack of creativity in dreaming up an AI infested future. People are able to force each other into gullibly working 40 hours a week, so that they can have shelter, food and a smartphone. This is not a rational thing, it is historically grown group think on a massive scale. Trying to use rational arguments to forecast what the future will look like based on this chaotic process seems silly at best. Nobody in the 1400s expected cars, democracy, let alone Facebook. So if this AI thing is as good as the printing press, then I wholly expect everyone to clone themselves a couple of thousand times, inhabit interiors of planets, grow 500,000 years old before entering higher education, but not something mundane as "letting an AI fill in the paperwork to set up a company". TL;DR, you can safely skip this article. |
Unless each of those clones can upload the unique experiences to my original self so that the original me gains from those experiences, then what's the point of the clone? Just build a generic robot. The only caveat would be if that clone is just doing boring drone work but solely based on the abilities of the original me, but please, do not upload those mundane experiences back to the original me.
A good use of a clone for me would be to send a clone me to a colony on Mars. Send a fleet of clone me on a multi-generation ship to distant stars. Leave a clone me at work doing whatever, while original me is traveling and experiencing the rest of this globe.