I think people have a lot of trouble envisioning or imagining what the end of humanity and our ecosystem would be like. We have disaster movies; many of them almost end humanity and leave some spark of hope or perspective at the end. Instead, imagine any disaster movie scenario where it ends somewhere before that moment and instead there’s just a dead, empty planet left to be disassembled or abandoned. The perspective is that history and ecology have been stripped away from the ball of rock without a trace remaining because none of it mattered enough to a superintelligence to preserve even a record of it. Emotionally, it should feel like burning treasured family photographs and keepsakes.
Well I appreciate your comment but I think something’s missing as far as conveying the emotions of the situation. I can imagine a death, a car crash for example, or imagine death on an even bigger scale like a nuclear weapon. I can imagine a disaster movie before it resolves on a happy ending. But I think those conceptions don’t convey much, because I acknowledge that superintelligence can be destructive and can even envision what the end state of destruction would look like. Just envisioning that end state without explaining superintelligence that caused us to get to that end state doesn’t do much for me though.
I think people have a lot of trouble envisioning or imagining what the end of humanity and our ecosystem would be like. We have disaster movies; many of them almost end humanity and leave some spark of hope or perspective at the end. Instead, imagine any disaster movie scenario where it ends somewhere before that moment and instead there’s just a dead, empty planet left to be disassembled or abandoned. The perspective is that history and ecology have been stripped away from the ball of rock without a trace remaining because none of it mattered enough to a superintelligence to preserve even a record of it. Emotionally, it should feel like burning treasured family photographs and keepsakes.
Well I appreciate your comment but I think something’s missing as far as conveying the emotions of the situation. I can imagine a death, a car crash for example, or imagine death on an even bigger scale like a nuclear weapon. I can imagine a disaster movie before it resolves on a happy ending. But I think those conceptions don’t convey much, because I acknowledge that superintelligence can be destructive and can even envision what the end state of destruction would look like. Just envisioning that end state without explaining superintelligence that caused us to get to that end state doesn’t do much for me though.