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 |  Subject: Transhumanist Magazine Says The End Of Religion Is Just Ahead: Who Needs To Pray To God... When You ARE One?  Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:11 am | |
|  Transhumanist Magazine Says The End Of Religion Is Just Ahead: Who Needs To Pray To God... When You ARE One?
History is littered with dead gods. The Greek and Roman gods, and thousands of others have perished. Yet Allah, Yahweh, Krishna and a few more survive. But will belief in the gods endure? It will not. Our descendents will be too advanced to share such primitive beliefs. We will manipulate the genome, rearrange the atom, and augment the mind. And if science defeats suffering and death, religion as we know it will die. Without suffering and death, religion will have lost its raison d’être. For who will pray for heavenly cures, when the cures already exist on earth? Who will die hoping for a reprieve from the gods, when science offers immortality? With the defeat of death, science and technology will have finally triumphed over superstition. Our descendents will know, once and for all, that they are stronger than imaginary gods. As they continue to evolve our post-human progeny will become increasingly godlike... |
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| | Subject: Artificial Intelligence Revolution: How Sudden Destruction Will Come Upon Us Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:12 am | |
|  Artificial Intelligence Revolution: How Sudden Destruction Will Come Upon Us
AI, which will likely get to AGI by being programmed to self-improve, wouldn’t see “human-level intelligence” as some important milestone—it’s only a relevant marker from our point of view—and wouldn’t have any reason to “stop” at our level. And given the advantages over us that even human intelligence-equivalent AGI would have, it’s pretty obvious that it would only hit human intelligence for a brief instant before racing onwards to the realm of superior-to-human intelligence. This may take us completely by surprise. The reason is that from our perspective, A) while the intelligence of different kinds of animals varies, the main characteristic we’re aware of about any animal’s intelligence is that it’s far lower than ours, and B) we view the smartest humans as WAY smarter than the dumbest humans. So as AI zooms upward in intelligence toward us, we’ll see it as simply becoming smarter, for an animal. Then, when it hits... |
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