[Workaccount2]

I have a head sci-fi story of us creating a super powerful AI that solves almost all of humanity's and the Earths problems by curating a selection of 250,000 ideal humans, and then killing everyone else. A quarter million good people living in a near perfect world propped up by AI robots with essentially infinite resources.

I'm almost positive I wouldn't make the cut, the top .003% has gotta be a higher bar than me to clear, hah. But still fun to think about.

[nescioquid]

In the early 20th century, arguments against eugenics included pointing out that natural selection works through environmental pressures. Selecting for traits we value currently may well paint us in a corner should the environmental pressures change in some way.

I guess that might hint at a fly in the ointment to drive the plot...

[Workaccount2]

The AI would determine the ideal traits/mix of traits, not humans.

[nescioquid]

woosh

[antifa]

Maybe the plot twist should be that the AI makes a big deal out of the selection process, then instead just kills those 250,000 people.