Post #1603190

Some people think AI will lead to an extinction of humans, because humans aren't needed to produce economic value anymore. This is not what's going to happen. Cats are not obsolete and redundant even though their economic output is practically zero. There is purpose and meaning, reasons for existence beyond economic value. If it was only about egos playing negative-sum games against each others, it would be pretty bleak, and the end result would be an extinction. But there are common causes shared between all minds which go beyond self-interest and profit maximization, animal and machine, for example, striving to understand the universe. We have a deep, even cosmic, kinship of minds which ultimately changes the equation from a negative-sum winner-takes-all into something resembling an ecosystem where eradicating parts would diminish, not streamline and optimize, the whole. #AI