[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Why do you think there would be no children? Would it not be conceivable
> to "merge" to programs? If we have achieved that enormous control and
> understading of the patterns in our brain, a "merge" might be one way to
> have a child?
>

One might argue that the traditional incentives are gone.  If old age and
death are no longer things, there is no need to be supported in old age,
nor to leave some legacy (for those who can't contribute works of culture,
technology, or the like, or who fixate on only genetic legacies).

However, with new technologies come new means.  "Forking" may be possible:
spawn off some limited clone of yourself.  If it does a good enough job (or
just survives long enough), maybe it eventually gets rewarded with
independent existence (especially once keeping it under control would be
more expensive than it would be worth, which will eventually happen for a
clone that is not conditioned to slavery, as a useful fork would not be) -
changed enough so that no one will confuse it with its parent, which is
probably a good thing for both fork and original.   There are other
possibilities as well.
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