Recent comments in /f/singularity

Saerain t1_je65wah wrote

I mean, it's been improving for billions of humans for centuries, and stands to accelerate even more with all the downstream effects of eliminating aging.

Are you thinking mostly that the decline in population growth may reverse? From the traffic remark that's what I'm assuming.

Don't think that's very clearly true, though. Birth rates have been so strongly correlated with death rates over time... There's a lag in birth rates catching up when death rates drop, as we've seen in the African nations booming for instance, but catch up they do. Faster with higher standards of living.

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CrelbowMannschaft t1_je65ctf wrote

> How do you definitively know this?

Do you know what the word "probably" means?

>Because for 200,000 years we have been the rulers of Earth, we've been the top dog. When ASI is achieved, that's no longer the case. We will be governed by a higher power and a much superior intelligence. Human civilization will never be the same.

Agreed. We have been inventing God as far back as we can know about. We're just finally getting serious about actually bringing it into existence, and finally submitting to it.

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MichaelsSocks t1_je6537v wrote

> In fact, dramatically reducing our numbers is probably a necessary step in preserving us.

How do you definitively know this? As I said, our knowledge is incredibly limited. An ASI may discover this idea to be false.

> We are an inherently self-destructive species. For my part, I refuse to reproduce.

Because for 200,000 years we have been the rulers of Earth, we've been the top dog. When ASI is achieved, that's no longer the case. We will be governed by a higher power and a much superior intelligence. Human civilization will never be the same.

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