[ExI] A short film about "natural selection" (Was: Re: Unfriendly AI is a mistaken idea.)

[John Grigg]

Stathis writes

> > I think that men did try to have as many children as possible, for 
a while, until
> > women wised up. (I mean that quite seriously;  it's a theory of 
evolutionary
> > history that an "arms-race" developed between women who can have 
only 
> > relatively few children, and men who can have many).
> 
> With modern reproductive technologies, it would be possible for women 
in
> power to have thousands of children, and men to have many thousands,
> perhaps even millions.

Sounds great!  I've always believed that as many people should be saved 
from
non-existence as possible.

  [ Lee, very funny! : ) ]
  
> And that's without even considering the possibilities raised by 
cloning.
> Therefore, given enough time, a human will arise who will take 
advantage
> of these opportunities, and that human will dominate the world.

Well, it won't be just *one* such person who will dominate the world.
Gradually, those who have more children (viable offspring) will come
to be highly represented, and those who don't will gradually go 
extinct in the sense that there will be fewer and fewer people like
them.

>  Do you think this is going to happen soon?

Oh, a singularity or a Moslem dictatorship or Fall of Civilzation or
a thousand other things could occur first. Two of the most interesting
things that will occur first are Age Reversal and Genetic Engineering.

Still, right now the environment favors---in strictly population 
biologic
terms---those who have as many children as they can and who allow
the state to raise them (e.g., they pay exactly zero for medical care,
relying only on ER services).  That's the path of the immediate future.
>
   
  
Ahah!  And the movie link below ties in beautifully with that thought...  Enjoy!
   
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=fAYnc_-ddlw  
   
  John : )
   

       
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