RE: Why I do not believe AI smarter than Humans will make more progress than Humans
November 10, 2015 at 10:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2015 at 10:55 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 10, 2015 at 10:00 pm)robvalue Wrote: I was also wondering if there was any real chance of us actually travelling that fast, to meet other life forms. And not being totally dead by the time we arrived.
It seems hopelessly impossible to me, but then I'm not very well informed. And we can never predict what kind of crazy technology people will come up with.
Stargates? Are they remotely possible? Folding space like a piece of paper so that two distant points coincide.
1. There is no reason why we must physically be in our exploration ships. The ship's can be purely robotic
2. If we must be in the ships, there is no reason why given a few centuries of medical advances we can not be enhanced to survive the trip
3. Whether we can be enhanced or not, there is no reason why being on the ship means we must take our vulnerable bodies. Perhaps we can be recorded as information and reconstructed at the destination where our presence is called for.
I think our vision of our role in the future is far too limited by our colloquial experiences of self, individual and life, which are but contingent result of of our paths of evolution, and these results are in no way fundamental to existence and irremediable by plausible technology.
