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Re:The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears (2015) by AndrewKemendo on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:22PM (#13281784)
Existentialism says that because the universe is meaningless you need to create your own meaning. That applies to humanity as well as it does an individual.

Right now, Humanity has no "goal" as it is currently with AGI - we haven't figured out a seed goal for AGI yet. In my view we should agree that the meaning for humanity is to create our successor: AGI. This fits into the evolution progression, only it becomes self directed.

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Re:The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears (2015) by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:20PM (#13288000)
But by your own argument, that's just a meaning that you made up. Why should the rest of us view it as having any validity whatsoever? Why should the human race decide that that goal is the one they should have, as opposed to, for example, destroying all life on earth? (That's the problem with existentialism - you can pick anything as your meaning.)
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Re:The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears (2015) by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @08:54PM (#13379264)
Well that's my task...to sell it so that people will buy it.
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