The last invention

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Can't wait.

The arrival of superintelligence will clearly deal a heavy blow to anthropocentric worldviews. Much more important than its philosophical implications, however, would be its practical effects. Creating superintelligence may be the last invention that humans will ever need to make, since superintelligences could themselves take care of further scientific and technological development. They would do so more effectively than humans. Biological humanity would no longer be the smartest life form on the block.

--- Nick Bostrom, 2003.

https://nickbostrom.com/views/transhumanist.pdf

I wonder how it feels to be someone's dog.

Comments

[dmm]

:-) I mean, sure I can name a decadent dream which I can't afford, and which... let's say a superrich and sufficiently influential lover (to skip all these conversations about superintelligences and parents) could make a reality :-)

:-) Like... a superrich lover could buy the best, most prominent and beautiful skyscraper in town, kick out the insurance company from it, and convert it to a 24-hour palace dedicated to electronic music, psychedelic visuals, and other decadent luxuries... and do it all for me :-)

:-) But that's different :-) Or, at least, I think that's different :-) What Nick Bostrom says, we can get an equivalent of this and more with true superintelligence, without disrupting the actual fabric of reality for everyone (if we are lucky) (a disruption which would be needed to actually implement this beautiful dream in the actual city I live in today; I supposed a Bill Gates could do something like this, if he wanted to ;-) ) :-)

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The whole "super" this or that thinking goes back to Nietzsche. Since "God is dead," people now bastardize his philosophy and think that technology is the new omniscient and omnipotent human-made God.