John Millard’s Reviews > Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies > Status Update

(pre this last Big Bang - this has all happened before Battlestar Galactica scenario). Let us not try to preserve each of our lives Indefinitely at the expense of life itself. Making the right call here might unravel the mystery of our species’ inheritance.

Guaranteeing that our seemingly increasingly expanding Iniverse does not ultimately expand into infinite darkness. Our existence in a space with so many variables ( tilt of earth, moon, magnetic field, Earth protecting orbits of outer planet ice giants, size and age of our sun, etc, etc, etc) is a possible indication that our species made the right call last time.

If the Super AI wonders about it’s creator like our species does (far more likely that a creator sacrifices itself for it’s creation then sits around with a scorecard) then we humans (as a collective group) will have succeeded in becoming the new God. One other task of AI would be to gain control of Science to the point of making the life sustaining cycle of the Big Bang cyclical.

I keep reading about profitability and shareholders. If humans create a Super AI the only acceptable concept of profitability is one that creates and maximizes the maintaining of a life sustaining planet for all life, not just humans. If we create we must be willing to sacrifice our species for Life ( Mother Nature if you will) or else our selfishness will be that which snuffs out life.

A carcinogenic species strives to perpetuate it’s life requiring the same for it’s host. It creates a vastly more intelligent version of itself. Caught in a Catch-22 the Super AI must choose Natural laws of the Universe to extend life thus doing away with it’s creator, supporting all measures that keep safe the Host World. A small group of our Creator group could be kept for study akin to animals in a zoo.

This approach might circumvent the impossible task of overcoming our human Ego inherent in any design growth architecture.

Just started this chapter and it is clear that we (human race) are so extremely fundamentally flawed philosophically that maybe we need another approach. Maybe we need the Super AI to focus on our planets environment being pristine and a defense system to guard against a planet killer asteroid. Maybe we only need the AI to find the optimum human population for an everlasting Pristine Paradise and head that way.

It seems our goal is to create a Super AI (God) and to have it always favor the best interests of Us (humans) even though We do not, never and, most likely will never know what that is.

Annoying that the author keeps talking about wealth generation. Wealth will be the world run by the Super AI with a healthy environment and all basic needs of all peoples met in a sustainable world. Our current concept of “work” and “wealth” must change or conflict, death and extinction will prevail.

... so as to perpetuate the benefits of the system of eternal life (as far as our Sun holds out - let us not get greedy in going for resources beyond our Sun for that might seize up the entire Universe like an auto engine throwing a rod) it seems that our species would have to sacrifice the exciting anxiety producing life threatening thrill of “A Leap At The Vine”.