I’m a (conditional) optimist. On an intuitive gut level, I can’t wait for AGI and maybe even something like the singularity to happen!
I regurlarly think about this to me extremely inspiring fact that “It’s totally possible, plausible, maybe even likely, that one special day in the next 10-60 years I will wake up and almost all of humanity’s problems will have been solved with the help of AI”.
When I sit in a busy park and watch the people around me, I think to myself: “On that special day… all the people I see here, all the people I know… if they are still alive… None of them will be seriously unhappy, none of them will have any serious worries, none will be sick in any way. They will all be free from any nighmares, and see their hopes and dreams fulfilled. They will all be flourishing in heaven on earth!”
This vision is what motivates me, inspires me, makes me extremely happy already today. This is what we are fighting for! If we play our cards right, something like this will happen. And I and so many I know will get to see it. I hope it will happen rather soon!
That seems like a powerful vision, actually outside the realm of possibility because of its contradictions of how humans function emotionally, but seductive nonetheless, literally, a heaven on Earth.
I don’t see how you get past limitations of essential identity or physical continuity in order to guarantee a life that allows hopes and dreams without a life that includes worry or loss, but it could involve incomplete experience (for example, the satisfaction of seeing someone happy even though you haven’t actually seen them), deceptive experience (for example, an illusion that makes sad people look happy to you), or virtual experience (you exist in a solo world, a virtual construction where nothing exists except you and the AI that creates your experience of a solipsistic world with happy, worry-free people). Those all have some appeal to me, I confess.
I’m a (conditional) optimist. On an intuitive gut level, I can’t wait for AGI and maybe even something like the singularity to happen!
I regurlarly think about this to me extremely inspiring fact that “It’s totally possible, plausible, maybe even likely, that one special day in the next 10-60 years I will wake up and almost all of humanity’s problems will have been solved with the help of AI”.
When I sit in a busy park and watch the people around me, I think to myself: “On that special day… all the people I see here, all the people I know… if they are still alive… None of them will be seriously unhappy, none of them will have any serious worries, none will be sick in any way. They will all be free from any nighmares, and see their hopes and dreams fulfilled. They will all be flourishing in heaven on earth!”
This vision is what motivates me, inspires me, makes me extremely happy already today. This is what we are fighting for! If we play our cards right, something like this will happen. And I and so many I know will get to see it. I hope it will happen rather soon!
That seems like a powerful vision, actually outside the realm of possibility because of its contradictions of how humans function emotionally, but seductive nonetheless, literally, a heaven on Earth.
I don’t see how you get past limitations of essential identity or physical continuity in order to guarantee a life that allows hopes and dreams without a life that includes worry or loss, but it could involve incomplete experience (for example, the satisfaction of seeing someone happy even though you haven’t actually seen them), deceptive experience (for example, an illusion that makes sad people look happy to you), or virtual experience (you exist in a solo world, a virtual construction where nothing exists except you and the AI that creates your experience of a solipsistic world with happy, worry-free people). Those all have some appeal to me, I confess.