I think you’ll need to explain that because I don’t see that at all. We’ve made life a lot better for most people on this planet by creating power-sharing arrangements that limit any single person’s autocratic powers, and expanding franchise to all. Yet I see many people here advocating basically a return to autocratic rule by our AI overlords, with no vote for the humans left behind. Essentially, “let’s build a provably beneficial dictator!” This boggles my mind.
The alternative is to decentralize transhumanist technology and push as many people a possible through an augmentation pathway in lockstep, preserving our democratic power structures. This sidesteps the friendly AI problem entirely.
Essentially, “let’s build a provably beneficial dictator!” This boggles my mind.
Agreed, though I’m probably boggled for different reasons.
Eventually, the software will develop to the point where the human brain will be only a tiny portion of it. Or somebody will create an AI not attached to a human. The body we know will be left behind or marginalized. There’s a whole universe out there, the vast majority of it uninhabitable by humans.
Or 3) Don’t pass control to AIs at all. Don’t even build agent-y AIs. Augment humans instead.
This may be a good way to start, but it eventually leads to the same place.
I think you’ll need to explain that because I don’t see that at all. We’ve made life a lot better for most people on this planet by creating power-sharing arrangements that limit any single person’s autocratic powers, and expanding franchise to all. Yet I see many people here advocating basically a return to autocratic rule by our AI overlords, with no vote for the humans left behind. Essentially, “let’s build a provably beneficial dictator!” This boggles my mind.
The alternative is to decentralize transhumanist technology and push as many people a possible through an augmentation pathway in lockstep, preserving our democratic power structures. This sidesteps the friendly AI problem entirely.
Agreed, though I’m probably boggled for different reasons.
Eventually, the software will develop to the point where the human brain will be only a tiny portion of it. Or somebody will create an AI not attached to a human. The body we know will be left behind or marginalized. There’s a whole universe out there, the vast majority of it uninhabitable by humans.
“The software”? What software? The “software” is the human, in an augmented human. I’m not sure whatever distinction you’re drawing here is relevant.
Presumably ‘the software’ is the software that was not part of the original human.