The impact of human-level intelligence has been fairly dramatic—looking at the current mass extinction.
You mean the one that started roughly 15,000 years ago? Yes, a truly dramatic change!
The biggest transformation seems likely when machines surpass humans in most areas of the job marketplace.
True. And at that point, humans will begin to derive more than half of their income from their ownership of capital and land. And those humans without capital or land may not be able survive, let alone to reproduce. Mankind has been in this position before, though.
The impact of human-level intelligence has been fairly dramatic—looking at the current mass extinction.
You mean the one that started roughly 15,000 years ago? Yes, a truly dramatic change!
You have different tastes in drama from me. For me, a mass extinction is a big deal. Especially so, if the species to which I belong looks as though it may be one of those that goes up against the wall in it.
Mankind has been in this position before, though.
Well, not exactly this position: we haven’t come across critters that are much stronger, faster and smarter than us before.
You mean the one that started roughly 15,000 years ago? Yes, a truly dramatic change!
True. And at that point, humans will begin to derive more than half of their income from their ownership of capital and land. And those humans without capital or land may not be able survive, let alone to reproduce. Mankind has been in this position before, though.
You have different tastes in drama from me. For me, a mass extinction is a big deal. Especially so, if the species to which I belong looks as though it may be one of those that goes up against the wall in it.
Well, not exactly this position: we haven’t come across critters that are much stronger, faster and smarter than us before.