RE: Why I do not believe AI smarter than Humans will make more progress than Humans
November 10, 2015 at 4:57 am
(November 10, 2015 at 4:22 am)robvalue Wrote: Well, "progress" is a highly subjective term.
If you mean space exploration, then I agree, being intelligent doesn't mean you have the desire to want to travel beyond your own planet. That's more to do with curiosity or necessity.
I think the desire to travel beyond one's own planet is probably primarily a socialogical, not a biological, artifact of intelligence. Whether a race sufficiently intelligent to be able to leave its planet actually does so would therefore be correlated to whether there is sociological advantages to having a culture that promotes exploration. I suspect there is.
So on a planet where there is intelligent life, random permutations of cultures and immediate local environments would undoubtedly produce a range of subcultures, some of which would be more inclined to explore than others. The ones that has a higher tendency towards exploration may also enjoy higher chance of prospering and gaining social and material advantage over the others. Eventually, one supposes that it would be such a subculture that would both be the first to attain space travel capability, and also to impose its exploratory outlook on the rest of the civilization.
