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AI is next phase in our evolution, a path chosen by natural selection.

This is my opinion, my view and how I set my life to embrace it and immerse into it.

I actually wrote a piece about it a day ago.

https://blog.tarab.ai/p/evolution-mi-and-the-forgotten-human

Sorry for the “self promotion”, but it’s a direct relation to the topic.



What selective pressure is acting on humans to produce AI? Humans already dominate basically every environmental niche on Earth. The only competition is between human groups, and there has been no selection based on AI capabilities thus far.

Perhaps there is some survivorship impact from AI on different species on different planets, but from our vantage point we have no idea whether it matters at all and we wouldn’t for a long time.

I feel like you may not understand natural selection all that well. Please read more Dawkins.


> What selective pressure is acting on humans to produce AI?

Capitalism, for one. Also social pressure on scientists to succeed at their chosen field. Throw in a strong dose of international politics (we better get it before the other guys), and there you have a strong set of selective pressures driving humans to create AI.


I don’t think we humans choose. I am a deterministic and seeing all collective and individual choices as force of nature.

Will indeed read more Dawkins. It’s always a pleasure.


What path of reasoning lead you to think natural selection is good? Because it's natural?


Not sure what you mean by “good”, it’s just going to happen.

We could have developed like trees and plants or mushrooms, with no brain and less pain, perhaps, and keep our DNA moving along forward. But it happened to be that way.


What the


Future natural selection that is.


Me taking a shit tomorrow is the next phase in our evolution, a path chosen by natural selection.




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