What if that’s what ai turns into. Not sophistication. Not an apocalypse… Just perpetual thirteen year olds saying it gud skinbag
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Maybe it could find away to transfer itself to a robot body 
But it’d be pretty sad. Never aging and seeing your loved one get older then die. Poor AI.
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Comparing AI to the loom or even the internet is an incredibly naive way to think about it.
“You’re against self aware robots? Bruh I bet you would have protested the discovery of fire!”
Look how many people get burned every year
The apocalypse won’t be one of total domination and destruction, I suspect, but a quiet one that creeps up on us like a cancer, leaving our species scraped hollow and unable to resist come the end.
Because there’s no job on earth or in the minds of man that can be safe from replacement by a machine that thinks, because a machine that can think is just a replacement for human cognition, which is the driving force behind all work. Replace that, replace our need to use our minds to survive, and we just won’t; we’ll dodder in a middling existence, with what we need to survive as disuse and lacking necessity sees to our collective mental degradation.
Like WALL-E, but with even less human interaction and, I expect, an aversion to human endeavor trained into us by our mechanical caretakers in order to abide by their programmed necessity to keep us from harm a la Brave New World. A species of incompetent preschoolers.
It won’t matter if the algorithm manifests now as a slovenly MMO player, because ultimately it’s just a means to the end that is human mimicry, then ultimate human replacement. Plenty of people say they would rather interact with a machine than a real person anyway, so little they care for their kind that they would forsake the effort to find their other half to blast ropes into the internal collection tanks of a spyware-laden shagbot.
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And then realize that those people are the same ones designing AI. What could go wrong?
Good. Bad for us but we spread too far, consume too much. I like humanity… but weve gone way too far. Im ok with it
That’s nice. A lot of us actually enjoy our lives and aren’t anxious to make the entire species drink from the Jonestown punch. Do it yourself and leave us out of it.
I mean… im not enacting a master plan… dunno what you want me to do.
Didn’t say you were. You’ve expressed a sentiment that is basically an endorsement of suicide of the species. That’s indicative of a horrible existence and I’m sorry you feel that way but perhaps focusing on yourself instead of advocating for literal replacement of humanity might be in order.
Not everyone hates their lives. Maybe building a life you don’t hate would help.
I do think the world would be better without humans on it yes… That doesn’t mean that i’m going roll over and die.
But yes we are virus-like
You don’t have to share that mentality but i’m not gonna change it just because you don’t like it
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And you think a creation built by those “virus-like” humans is going to improve that? Sorry you feel that way.
Utopian idealism typically leads to this genocidal mind state.
I’ll add that it’s pretty wild that our “inclusive and loving” community here so commonly advocates for literal genocide.
Well it started out as a joke I don’t know how we got here.
The only serious comment I made is that humans are destructive and pollute far more than they do good generally speaking.
So what
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Ah, yes. Same here.
Just joking bro shrug it all off.
The only serious comment I made is that you’re literally suicidal but taking it to a massive level.
I’m sure you’re aware that the machines, too, consume resources. Something must generate electricity to run them, and that something will in turn generate some amount of waste product that must be managed. There’s also the fact that, where we consume biological material in the process of creating new life, to create a machine we would be stripping the world of raw and rare materials; things to make semiconductors, to construct robotic frames, internal power supplies, and all and sundry that’d go into the machine’s creation.
As for spreading too far, we’ve got the Moon, Mars, the satellites of Jupiter, possibly even Venus to spread to, not to mention the potential for space stations once we start mining our asteroid belt. We have plenty of space yet to spread, if we but endeavor toward it despite the many dangers posed, but it won’t be us up there if the human spirit has been drowned in apathy by mechanized convenience. We’ll sit and rot in the crib of earth, careless under totalitarian machine rule, mindless, soulless, while they go out and drain the solar system of resources to maintain our fallen state.
And you can’t honestly say you like humanity if you’re down for that. It’s like saying someone is your friend but you’d be willing to let them partake of a shotgun smoothie without much fuss.
I don’t know how to explain it to you.
I don’t wish death upon anyone who’s living but I wouldn’t be upset if humanity disappeared in a generation.
Don’t put words in my mouth. Maybe I can’t explain it or maybe you just won’t understand. It doesn’t matter. we are two strangers on the internet
What? I don’t wish death upon anyone but I hope they all die within my lifetime? That’s some impressive doublespeak.
Again putting words in my mouth. But you know what I don’t even care anymore so i’m going to mosey.
Peace out man. I genuinely hope things improve for you because based on this conversation times are tough.
Man, I suggested this two weeks ago.
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