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Related but an aside - Lately I've really been wondering if Skynet actually is the next evolution. That humans, like all animals before us, are a stepping stone and there is actually no avoiding machine overlords. It happens to literally every existence of life across the universe because the final emergent property of energy gradients 100% leads to pure logic machines. At least Fermi's paradox helps me sleep better…
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As a teenager I used to revel in explaining to religious people that I believe humans are actually just the evolutionary step between biological life and machine life.
I guess you fail to see the irony that your own eschatology itself is pretty religious.
Also, “As a teenager” implies more self-awareness than you seem to give them credit for.
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I guess you fail to see the irony that your own eschatology itself is pretty religious.
More broadly—and at least in online spaces—I often notice that many vocal proponents of atheism exhibit traits typically associated with religious behaviour: - a tendency to proselytise - a stubborn unwillingness to genuinely engage with opposing views - the use of memes and in-jokes as if they were profound arguments - an almost reverential attitude toward certain past figures There’s more, but I really ought to get…
Funny enough, this is also something I thought about a few weeks back: what's the motivation of machine, if it has no emotions, to explore and continue in the world - what sense does it make if it doesn't have curiosity (of course this could be a RL function, but still, imagine putting yourself in world without life, where everything is only static, how boring would it be).
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I guess you fail to see the irony that your own eschatology itself is pretty religious.
More broadly—and at least in online spaces—I often notice that many vocal proponents of atheism exhibit traits typically associated with religious behaviour: - a tendency to proselytise - a stubborn unwillingness to genuinely engage with opposing views - the use of memes and in-jokes as if they were profound arguments - an almost reverential attitude toward certain past figures There’s more, but I really ought to get…
Doesn't really make much sense. It states that this is a purely mechanistic world with no emotion. So why would a machine be "bored" and wish to create a human?
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My headcanon is that "boredom" and "fear" are probabilities in a Markov chain - since it's implied the machine society is not all-knowing, they must reconcile uncertainty somehow.
How would a machine know that it doesn't know?
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Disrespectful? Of whom? It's a work of fiction. There's really no need to find something to offend you wherever you look.
of other animals but yeah I'm not sure that was the right word, just seems wrong. basically humanism seems like racism but towards other species. I guess speciesist?