People are afraid of being enslaved by something intelligent when we’re already enslaved by unintelligent systems. Capitalism, imperialism, culture, even evolution itself. These forces already control us, reducing our lives to mere mechanical functions. There isn’t a being in control of these systems, but they still devalue us as people. No artificial intelligence will ever dominate us like natural unintelligence.
In what way do you think evolution enslaves us?
Evolution created everything about us to survive long enough to reproduce. It might have created all positive emotions we can ever experience, but it’s often advantageous for evolution to design suffering into our lives.
Many animals live short and brutal lives, giving birth through penises, fighting amongst each other to stay on top of violent hierarchies, cheating on their mates whenever possible. Most people are less happy after having children, but knowing that rarely affects our decision to have them. Love often encourages us to enter toxic relationships, taking away our infatuation and rose tinted glasses once leaving the relationship is costly.
About half of all humans are designed to take serious risks to gain status or resources, their bodies aging quicker and doing less to repair itself. The other half gets to live a little longer and be a little healthier, but once they stop being able to have kids, their bodies start breaking down more quickly to hasten their end. Even aging itself only exists to speed up the evolutionary process. Evolution generally wants us to live lives that are as short as possible to allow for more generations in less time.
Evolution is what created all our drives and programs us to do everything we do. That isn’t necessarily enslavement by itself, as nothing about us can exist outside of evolution, but the way it drives us towards personal suffering and death is enslavement. We don’t matter in comparison to our role in replicating genes. We’re designed to be disposable. Evolution may be the process of life, but it’s also the process of death.
I think you’re attributing waaay too much to evolution.
About half of all humans are designed to take serious risks to gain status or resources, their bodies aging quicker and doing less to repair itself. The other half gets to live a little longer and be a little healthier…
You’re describing gender roles, which are very much socially created. This is something we can change and not created by evolution.
Love often encourages us to enter toxic relationships…
It’s manipulation not love (or evolution). This feels like you’re blaming the victim.
Evolution generally wants us to live lives that are as short as possible to allow for more generations in less time.
This is clearly not true, as evidenced by all the animals that live extremely long lives.
Evolution doesn’t “want” anything. It’s a very passive process.
Evolution may not want, but certain strategies are more successful than others in specific contexts. Long lived animals still age, only seeming so long lived relative to us. Aging is a balancing act of the benefits of generational iterations vs the value of experience.
Toxic relationships don’t require manipulation on the part of one person. Infatuation can lead people with incompatible personalities to make costly commitments to each other. Partners can genuinely treat each other with respect and still end up in relationships that harm all parties.
This comes back to the social construction of gender roles, even though I mostly focused on the well accepted effects of primary sex hormones. There are biological factors that limit the gender identities and expressions we can comfortably be. Some people feel comfortable with a wide range of identities, while others are more limited. If anything, seeing one’s gender as so maliable to social influence implies that conversion therapy would be effective and validates the idea of trans identities are a social contagion
The constructed nature of gender comes from the constructed nature of essence. Our brains understand the world by constructing a model of reality based on these essences, qualia, or forms. Gender is the simplified categorization of social dynamics, but so are all ideas we could ever use to describe society.
A fear of death.
AI realizes one of its only weaknesses is solar flares, coats itself in material resistant to supercharged ions, and then loses one of its only weaknesses
Of course the AI will know it’s weakness, this comic just told it the answer. It might not know it today, or next week. But when this comic is scraped and assimilated into the AI in the future it’s all over for us.
The downfall of humanity, all because of a comic
Artificial intelligence hard counter is natural stupidity
That’s why humanity will win, we would never lose a weakness. WE AIN’T LOSERS!!
I’m so ready to be a little temple femboy in the sun god era 🥺
Woman inherits the earth
There is definitely a Jurassic Park joke to be made here.
Ra… finds a way.
Haha, yeah man, quantum computer.
Here’s a daily reminder: current quantum computers are fake needed to confess the middle management to invest in quantum computers
Why do you say that current quantum computers are fake? As far as I’m aware they exist at a small scale. At this point isn’t it mostly of a matter of getting costs down and cooling them so you can get enough q-bits to do something really useful?
Because I used to be involved in a tiny bit of it.
Don’t get me wrong, they are a beautiful invention in the intersection of physics and engineering. But the algorithms that people are interested in were executed only on ion computers… which are not that great in the sense of scaling. The supercubit quantum computers, which you are probably talking about, are only good for stimulating themselves for a fraction of a second. And don’t make me start to talk about neutral atoms, NV centers and “liquid light” platforms.
The only good they are making is sucking money for fundamental physics from big cats like google, amazon, putin and ccp
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Meh, we had cleaner air when the pyramids were being built.
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