Reading the headline "Machines Like Us" ... If th...

2009-11-06T19:05:29.587-05:00

Reading the headline "Machines Like Us" ...

If those machines will be -- seriously -- *like* us -- like several billions of human beings already here on earth --, then ... well ... I think, we will not need those machines. They will take away valuable real estate, and -- the greatest sin -- the artificial intelligence next door will be as boring as my neighbors are already today.

But, I know, only some of the researchers want to create machines like us -- an unreflecting attempt. Others want to improve certain aspects relative to human beings: intelligence, strength, health, duration of life, etc. (or everything in quotation marks).

Let us assume an autonomous, artificially intelligent, sentient machine, being substantially more intelligent than the most intelligent human beings, being able to exist (or "live", if you want) with no definite endpoint, and being able to develop itself. I think, these preconditions will change the mind and the ethic of this machine very much. After some time it will "behave" in a very interesting way, and it will "treat" us in a very strange way. At least these future times will not be boring.

If artificially intelligent machines, posthuman sentient beings, or whatever, then -- please -- *not* like us!

Now what I need is "How to survive living a workah...

2009-11-04T20:42:44.686-05:00

Now what I need is "How to survive living a workaholic's lifestyle when you aren't one but don't have much choice in the matter".

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Reading the headline "Machines Like Us" ... If th...

Now what I need is "How to survive living a workah...