I’d rather not read the whole article. It reads like Q but without the bad freeform verse.
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Well I did read the entire article. A few interesting points but the most important point in my own opinion was totally missed by the writer.
While the writer mentions space exploration and what will happen with the vanity of scientest creating AI that will eventually enslave us, perhaps eat us, it does not mention time.
Time is where so many futurist miss the boat. They speak of godlessness without thinking. For instance: The universe was according to most scientest created with a big bang about 13-1/2 to 14 billion years ago. The sun about 4-1/2 or so billion years ago and the earth perhaps 4 billion years ago. In the last few hundred years the people of earth have progressed from knowing magnetism exists to harnessing it to subdue our world. The vast majority of that understanding and harnessing has happened in the last 50 years. Certainly there were great thinkers prior to 50 years ago and great discoveries but knowledge and understanding are moving faster than at any time in the history of mankind.
There were other earths that were born and died before ours was even even contemplated, perhaps trillions of them. In 100 years there will be advances in sciences and engineering we can’t even contemplate but I’m really talking about societies that are not 100 years ahead of us, not a thousand or a million but billions of years ahead of us.
If there was a living being with a billion year head start on us, if we met them we wouldn’t understand them except to believe that they were gods. I would think those societies managed their AI ok and got by, I have no reason to believe that we couldn’t do the same.
I am not a particularly forward thinking man but I don’t see how philosophy cannot take time into consideration when coming to an opinion that concerns our future.
Given time as a whole, in the not too distant future; humanity as we know it today will probably not exist as we know it (provided we don’t destroy ourselves first).
We will continue the march onward with artificial organs and more prosthetics and they will become better and better prolonging life except for one organ, the human brain. It will continue to degenerate so if you want to continue to “live on” that will have to be replaced and soon you are no longer human. Cyborg, hybrid and that will proceed until probably not even living tissue anymore. If we weer to encounter beings (or whatever you would want to call them) that had hundreds of thousands of years head start on us I doubt they would be anything like us with bodies that fail with time. Just my $0.02 however that is where I see “humanity” eventually headed.