Artificial Superintelligence by 2040? Seriously scary stuff!

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A very good write-up about artificial superintelligence:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificia ... ion-1.html

It's pretty long, but well worth the read. What makes it really scary is that this isn't some baseless speculation like "we should have flying cars by 2100", it's simply extrapolation from current trends. It's not a matter of if super-intelligent AI will exist, it's only a matter of when. And it's absolutely impossible to predict what the effect will be, but I agree with the article that it will be massive!

Of course, nobody knows exactly when it will happen, but it seems likely to be in the lifetimes of most of us here. (That's the other scary part, by the way!)

Our tools are advancing but our psyche is not.

We have not advanced in applying philosophy to our daily lives.

I would argue that our Philosophy has advanced along with our understanding of such disciplines as evolutionary/social psychology, neuroscience, etc... BUT and this is a HUGE BUT....

The masses of humanity do not live self examined lives which have at the center critical thinking and the wisdom of the conscientious application of sound philosophical principles.

The masses continue to live easily lead and easily deceived lives soaked in mediocrity and banal desires.

Our situation is hopeless.

Either AI, esp. Strong AI, will serve the PTB or it will serve itself(assuming strong AI can exist...which is unknowable at this point).

Imagine if Strong AI serves the PTB......it will give them Absolute POWER.

If it serves itself....what will it do to us...?!?!?!?

Unless it becomes a omnibenevolent electronic god...we are utterly fvcked

Damn, why can't this scary stuff happen by the time I'm old and dead? God please help us.

Someone go warn Sarah Connors.

I'm worried about neurotypical-ran organizations trying to enslave it when it is 'young' and pissing it off.

Some Artificial Super-Intelligence may have already produced this Universe. Something akin to a Game-Server. Like on some sort of Multi-Player MMORPG. Except in Quantum-Format. This Material-Universe being run by an enormously massive Quantum Computer-System.

I have a hard time seeing how mankind survives in the long run, we will destroy ourselves and what will survive is machines.

Multiverse theory reminds me of a postsingularity virtuality. Kind of like a mix of a historical re-enactment that could do a what-if and diverge at any point.

Given the exploitist mindset of most humans, cheap cost effective open-to-all intelligence augmentation would reduce the probability of pissing it off.

Very, very interesting. The same idea comes if we are thinking about meta-evolution, the evolution of evolution; it really happens. I believe, though, that the function describing the phenomena is even more astonishing then a simple exponencial, and is a succession of it, like e^a1t , from 0 to t1 , than e^a2t , from t1 to t2 , and so on. Evolutive steps, once extremely slow, are being now surpassed very fast causing an accumulation point, a single moment in which many evolutive steps will be transposed.

subjective desire is something that will never be an element in artificial intelligence, and as such, artificial intelligence is doomed to stagnation unless stewarded by the desires of a carnal sentience.