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Originally Posted by punkworld
Pleasure would probably drive people to do things, as would ambition for fame, intellectual recognition, social interaction... You might be right, immortality might indeed lead to disaster, but we have no real way to predict what the effects would be. Nor do we have a way of preventing scientists from achieving it, for that matter. The only thing that is beyond a doubt is that the next few hundred years will be very interesting both from a technological as well as a philosophical point of view. I'm particularly looking forward to the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence  |
If you haven't already realized we've lived those situations many times through-out history. You can easily replace a superpower AI, with those who were the highly educated or who held the majority of the power. B/c lets face it, that's all a super AI would be. Not everyone would be it and surely those behind would catch up. It's all a process of information.
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"Cogs in a greater machine greased to keep the world turning for no particular greater purpose than continued existence."
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How are we not that now ? And what will be the difference between that time and this? NONE. There will always be the strong percentages of highly educated, greatly empowered(by whatever means), and those in abundance of technology. Those people will create the societal, environmental, cultural, lines to live by. You could easily says that's how we live now.
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Originally Posted by punkworld
"Pleasure would probably drive people to do things, as would ambition for fame, intellectual recognition, social interaction... You might be right, immortality might indeed lead to disaster, but we have no real way to predict what the effects would be. Nor do we have a way of preventing scientists from achieving it, for that matter."
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Are those not the same things that drive us now? Have they not always driven us since the dawn of time. There are only a few set classifications of awareness we can go before we completely deconstruct. If you look at the patterns of life and how intelligence evolves then you will see that even if AI reigned supreme and we had the brave new world society you would soon realize that there would be a vast number of species at the far lower ranks in and between. NOT everything or everyone would be at that level. For that reason, we will ALWAYS exist in the same patterns. The better at patten patterning we get has nothing to do with how empty life is.
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"The only thing that is beyond a doubt is that the next few hundred years will be very interesting both from a technological as well as a philosophical point of view. I'm particularly looking forward to the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence"
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Ahhh yes, who BEFORE us hasn't said that. Didn't our great grandfathers say THAT SAME EXACT THING. Don't you realize that we are ALWAYS on the brink of the greatest technology. That we HAVE more than any generation before us, and that the next coming decades will be amazing. Yes, sure, why not? When hasn't it been.
The function of life will continue to remain the same, it will vary to left or right sometimes and we will create more and go further just to have something to contrast our existence to. The fact still remains that we will evolve, we will create, we will destroy, and all life(and non-life) will continue to do the same with full intent. I mean... how else can we know anything about ourselves until we know everything about reality.