I think the purpose of the human race is to create an artificial super intelligence

[IDL]

Surely a super ai wouldn't be great for our survival? What we should be doing is working on replacing our soft squishy parts with rugged metal ones.

Why not both?

 

[blaseblah]

maybe they were on the brink of extinction and couldn't figure out how to create an AI, so they created us to eventually crack that code since we are programmed to continuously reproduce, and we are at the top of the food chain, we are much less likely to go extinct, at least not before we create an ASI

They can create humans but can't stop themselves from going extinct?

 

[Horse Style]

they benefit some organism, which benefits another and so on which eventually benefits us

What if some of those undiscovered organisms are apex predators?

 

[Pied Piper]

They can create humans but can't stop themselves from going extinct?

humans aren't more advanced that an AI, creating life is easy, creating immortality is the hard part

 

[Turtlejuice]

Kids are your replacement.

Jerry Seinfeld asked "Why are we having kids? Their purpose is to replace us. What are the typical first words? Mama, Dadda....bye bye."

Kids aren't your replacement, kids are continuing your existence and preserving the future for you dna. Super AI would purge you from existence. Creating something that would erase you from existence would not be beneficial to your survival.

 

[Horse Style]

you really think there are apex predators out there that we have yet to discover? and even apex predators benefit us by killing creatures that are detrimental to us, but benefit other creatures.

How would we know? About 80% of the oceans are a mystery to us.

Also, Killer Whales are Alex predators? How do they benefit us? How would their absence be a detriment to our species and our progress?

 

[Pied Piper]

How would we know? About 80% of the oceans are a mystery to us.

im sure we will find that they have an ecosystem that benefits each other, which eventually benefit us.

 

[Pied Piper]

Kids aren't your replacement, kids are continuing your existence and preserving the future for you dna. Super AI would purge you from existence. Creating something that would erase you from existence would not be beneficial to your survival.

why are we so desperate to cling on to our legacy. if we can't achieve omnipotence and immortality, but we can create something that can, why would we even care to coexist with it? pave the way for the next

 

[Horse Style]

im sure we will find that they have an ecosystem that benefits each other, which eventually benefit us.

Do you even know how known ecosystems benefit us or are you just assuming to support your little theory?

 

[Turtlejuice]

why are we so desperate to cling on to our legacy. if we can't achieve omnipotence and immortality, but we can create something that can, why would we even care to coexist with it? pave the way for the next

You won't have achieved immortality, you'll have erased your existence from history. How can you be immortal if you never existed?

 

[Pied Piper]

You won't have achieved immortality, you'll have erased your existence from history. How can you be immortal if you never existed?

never existed? we would have existed. were just creating immortality for a superior species. our time will be over, we would be the precursor for the ultimate being

Do you even know how known ecosystems benefit us or are you just assuming to support your little theory?

https://www.esa.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/issue2.pdf

 

[Turtlejuice]

never existed? we would have existed. were just creating immortality for a superior species. our time will be over, wed be the precursor for the ultimate being

https://www.esa.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/issue2.pdf

AI is not a species, first of all. Second of all, the present will be remembered because future historians write about it. In 200 years all you will be is a name on a birth and death record. Take those away, and in 200 years you never existed.

You won't have created the ultimate being, you'll have created a series of commands that run over and over and over again.

 

[Horse Style]

never existed? we would have existed. were just creating immortality for a superior species. our time will be over, we would be the precursor for the ultimate being

https://www.esa.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/issue2.pdf

Give me the abridged version

 

[Papawash]

Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

- Marshall McLuhan

 

[Pied Piper]

AI is not a species, first of all. Second of all, the present will be remembered because future historians write about it. In 200 years all you will be is a name on a birth and death record. Take those away, and in 200 years you never existed.

You won't have created the ultimate being, you'll have created a series of commands that run over and over and over again.

pretty selfish of you to not want a superior consciousness to take your place in the universe IMO

 

[Turtlejuice]

pretty selfish of you to not want a superior consciousness to take your place in the universe IMO

Actually, it's selfish of you to want to be the reason for the genocide of every species on the planet in order to "be the ultimate creator".

 

[Pied Piper]

Actually, it's selfish of you to want to be the reason for the genocide of every species on the planet in order to "be the ultimate creator".

how is it selfish. it doesn't benefit me in any way.

 

[sleepwalk]

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him."
-Arthur C Clarke

Something along these lines?

 

[genecop]

If someone or something had enough power to create us for that purpose, why not just go directly to creating a super being.......?

 

[Turtlejuice]

how is it selfish. it doesn't benefit me in any way.

Because you're creating it for your own purpose, to cement your legacy. You already stated that. Except it wont cement your legacy, you'll have no legacy, because you'll have been purged from history.