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Re:Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a liv... by perihelions on Saturday July 27, 2024 @06:43PM (#41089862)
- "how do you expect to do better than evolution"

Because our goal is aligned with our actual problem (survival of individual human beings), as opposed to the merely partially-aligned goal of "statistical survival up to reproduction age"? Natural evolution is an unaligned AI, in a sense: powerful, but not helpful.

Eventually humanity will defeat this problem, and we won't even need computational parity with natural evolution to do that. Most of that computation is wasted.

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Re:Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a liv... by enthulhusiastic on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @06:42AM (#41107783)
Most of the computation is suffering, but not wasted. It still benefits us.

And the computation has to be done even in simulation. Just better to shortcut the suffering.

I think bioengineering is a good goal. I think cyborgs are a bad goal.

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