How many people are needed create an artificial intelligence that can expand itself uncontrollably, replacing the biosphere? None. We already have global free trade economics discovering the most efficient outcome and using the resulting wealth to control governments. Replacing the biosphere has just been a side effect. The primary goal has been to get rid of expensive workers, and its success has been an astonishing 150-year run and is nearly complete. Someday, it will learn how to expand without all those inefficient desires of consumers. Those darned consumers have the audacity to desire things that are hard for machines to make by themselves, things that don't even help other machines to make more machines. How dare they! Evolution occurs at all scales, all the time, with or without intelligence or desire. Genes and memes are just the memory bits of the winning programs discovered, not the source of the intelligence. A.I. is not the threat. Evolution and biology's inefficiency are the danger. Water-based evolution is doomed.
The new genes are being cast in molten metals and metalloids (like silicon) and carbon that does not use or want H or O. Except for long-term energy storage.
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How many people are needed create an artificial intelligence that can expand itself uncontrollably, replacing the biosphere? None. We already have global free trade economics discovering the most efficient outcome and using the resulting wealth to control governments and people with the help of actors, lobbyists, lawyers, bankers, programmers, etc. Computers just continually decrease the need for the number of people involved at each step, and if you take it to the limit then you have zero people.
Replacing the biosphere has just been a side effect. The primary goal has been to get rid of expensive workers per market value produced, and its success has been an astonishing 150-year run and is nearly complete. Someday, it will learn how to expand without all those inefficient desires of consumers like welfare, retirement, SUVs, war, service jobs, etc. Those darned consumers have the audacity to desire things that are hard for machines to make by themselves, things that don't even help other machines to make more machines. How dare they! Evolution occurs at all scales, all the time, with or without intelligence or desire. Genes and memes are just the memory bits of the winning programs discovered, not the source of the intelligence. A.I. is not the threat. Basic evolution and biology's inefficiency are the danger. Threats and survivors do not need what we consider intelligence any more than viruses that have been around forever. You can call our world-wide economic machine intelligent and with desire if you want, even having desires outside of what humans want like destruction of the Amazon and coral, but it's not necessary.
Water-based evolution is doomed. The new genes are being cast in molten metals and metalloids (like silicon) and carbon that does not use or want H or O, except for long-term energy storage.
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