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The definition of a modern human is someone who does what machines do not do, so as machines become more capable it changes what humans do.

I guess it seems very likely to me that we will have Skynet/paperclip maximizers before AGI. I mean, I think we kind of do right now in what the internet is growing into.

We're like single cells imagining what a brain would be like but we'll never know because probably we'll be part of something brainless that dominates the ecosystem, or if there is an organism with a brain, we won't be able to perceive it because we're components.




We are already components of something brainless that dominates the ecosystem. :-)


Of course, but that thing is getting more and more computerized and the software is getting more sophisticated. My point is just that if there is a phase change, we probably won't notice because we're part of it and don't perceive it.




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