[extropy-chat] Fundamental limits on the growth rate of superintelligences

[Morris Johnson]

Perhaps an AI will take a very simple route.

Evolve slowly and carefully by first  appealing to the emotional
non-rational part of human consciousness and to those who
are very easy to cooperate with in this area, religeon.

Perhaps a clever AI would promise to bring heaven onto earth,
"upload" or as the bible says gather the believers into the heavens and put
forward the notion that it is god and christ
incarnate and all who do not believe or oppose are the anti-christ and are
to be cast out of the new heaven and earth it offers and or simply
exterminated as evil and satanic.

An AI could move forward with a symbiosis with humans by assisting the
evolution of the human biology and lifespan utilizing its unique
computational capacity.

The trade off might be that the AI would as a symbiont siphon off a
percentage of the total human energy and bio-computational  "peta-flops" to
support its own computational capacity.

By affording humans the physical means and technology to populate the entire
galaxy or perhaps far beyond, it might turn the entire space occupied by
humans into it's personal
far-flung computational grid.

The more things change, the more things stay the same, n'est pas.

Morris
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