Competitive Self-Play

Re:Competitive Self-Play by state_less on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:17PM (#15453568)

Humanity is already extinct in a sense. Humanity is no longer limited to flesh and bone. I've personally seen flesh and titanium. And more variation is on the way. So humanity as it were, is already extinct.

We (you and me) will go extinct someday. Our bodies were always destined toward this terminus... Perhaps by some miraculous tech, we can someday change form and shed the flesh and bone. Maybe then we'll have a better idea of what we are.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by FeepingCreature on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:38PM (#15454164)

"We could thus imagine, as an extreme case, a technologically highly advanced society, containing many complex structures, some of them far more intricate and intelligent than anything that exists on the planet today — a society which nevertheless lacks any type of being that is conscious or whose welfare has moral significance. In a sense, this would be an uninhabited society. It would be a society of economic miracles and technological awesomeness, with nobody there to benefit. A Disneyland without children."

--Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

It's not a given that anything of value will survive.

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:55AM (#15456824)

C.f. Meditations on Moloch. We are on our way towards exactly that.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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