Humanity maybe is more “interesting” than nothing, but is it more “interesting” than anything that isn’t humanity and can be assembled from the same matter? Definitely not!
That’s true. But there is no shortage of matter, the whole Jupiter is available nearby. Creative ideas of what to do with those atoms are likely to be more of a bottleneck.
However, one can easily see an AI deciding that billions of humans are boring and that a few millions might be closer to an optimal number from the curiosity viewpoint. So we still have a problem, to say the least...
Humanity maybe is more “interesting” than nothing, but is it more “interesting” than anything that isn’t humanity and can be assembled from the same matter? Definitely not!
That’s true. But there is no shortage of matter, the whole Jupiter is available nearby. Creative ideas of what to do with those atoms are likely to be more of a bottleneck.
However, one can easily see an AI deciding that billions of humans are boring and that a few millions might be closer to an optimal number from the curiosity viewpoint. So we still have a problem, to say the least...