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by morkalork 4 hours ago
At this point I'm like, if it happens it happens. There's no point caring because I'm the equivalent of an ant in the grand scheme of things.
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There's got to be something we can do though...
of course there’s things we could do on a societal level. nothing’s actually inevitable. but we won’t do anything, because the normative argument (we’re condemning people to die of cancer if we don’t put all our resources into the fastest possible AI development) will win every time.
If we're going to go that direction, let's get the AI to re-write some of our DNA and go the full transgenic sci-fi arc
I’m all set thanks
Well don't worry, it probably wouldn't be us or our progeny going on that adventure
You could write a blog post analyzing a few of the what-if scenarios