[ExI] ai wants to do ya

[Keith Henson]

Stuart, sorry to say, but that's just nonsense.

Breeding is slow.  Editing gets results much faster, but given
nanotech, you could construct a person with your target genome.

Best wishes,

Keith

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 9:18 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
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>
>
> Breedable sex bots would be technology that could be used for all
> sorts of purposes; some good, some bad, and everything in between. So
> what humans should be bred for depends on the cultural history of the
> AI doing the breeding. There might be several different
> culturally-based networks of breeder-bots. For example, an AI
> controlled by the PRC are likely to breed for strong loyal communists.
> The Japanese government bots would probably just encourage Japanese
> people to breed at all. A nanny-state's sex bots might breed for
> further neoteny of the population making them cuter and more docile.
>
> An expansionist state might breed for genetically optimized super
> soldiers. The sexbots of the Latter Day Saints might breed for the
> recombinant clone of their prophet Joseph Smith. Free market sex-bots
> might subscribe to agoragenics, where the genetic traits of ones
> children can be chosen from a menu for the right price.
>
> Basically the technology would allow cultural memes to influence
> genetic heritability more than at any other time in human history. It
> could result in the evolution of bio-genetic paragons of various
> ideologies programmed into the AIs in charge of the various breeding
> networks in question.
>
> Should the AI ever develop self-interest, then other traits might be
> bred for. Everything from aesthetics like the color and texture of our
> hair to our height. They might breed for "teacup humans", or the
> ability to creatively problem solve and write code or, like you
> suggested, handle a direct neural link to a machine effectively, or
> survive the rigors of outer space.
>
> There is a nexus of possibilities open before us.
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
>
>
> Quoting efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>:
> > I see a book here. Secret AI controlled "breeding factories" in 3:rd
> > world countries. The women in the breeding factories think it is
> > about surrogate mothership, never meet the manager (AI) but only
> > intermediaries.
> >
> > Now what are the AIs breeding for? The kwisatz haderach? The
> > ultimate merge of man/machine (neural pathways/brain setups most
> > conducive to being integrated with the AI)?
> >
> > Please keep adding, I'm curious where this might go. ;)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 18 May 2023, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:
> >
> >> I appreciate that the scenario that you envision could come to
> >> pass, Tara, especially if makers of the sex bots are driven by
> >> nothing deeper than a short-term profit motive. But, there are
> >> other possible scenarios out there. In one , a network of seductive
> >> android enact a massive selective breeding program upon humanity by
> >> acting as honeybees and where fembots collect sperm from reticent
> >> males and then transfer the collected sperm to charming chad-bots
> >> that use the collected sperm to impregnate genetically desirable
> >> women. Basically robots acting as gametic intermediaries to allow
> >> humans with desired traits, that would not normally meet or fall in
> >> love with one another, to breed. In this way, we could be
> >> selectively bred by AI for various purposes, either their own or
> >> their human handlers.
> >>
> >> And while I acknowledge, that women would employ sex bots to a
> >> lesser extent than men, I am certain that quite a few women would
> >> see the advantages of a vibrating sex toy capable of pillow talk.
> >>
> >> Stuart LaForge
> >>
> >>
> >> Quoting Tara Maya via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>:
> >>
> >>> If robots did share one mind and decide to embark on a massive
> >>> campaign of tricking every human on earth into accidentally trying
> >>> to mate with a robot... as part of a fiendishly clever plan to
> >>> drive humanity extinct...
> >>>
> >>> well, it would certain put a new twist on the adage, "Make love not war."
> >>
> >>
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