[ExI] Humans could become robots controlled by AI.

[Brent Allsop]

Shortly we'll all (AI's included) have genetically engineered "avatar" like
bodies that are thousands of times better than what we have now in every
way, and of course neural ponytail like mechanisms that allow us to
subjectively bind to, and subjectively travel between at will, and
subjectively backup....

I think you need to get to first principles to predict the future.

If you look at "Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs"
<https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html>. We are still a long way
from fulfilling the foundational levels for everyone in developed
countries, let alone the rest of the world.  And that includes cures for
aging and so on.  Once all that is achieved for everyone, Maslow's
hierarchy will flip upside down and the "self actualization" level will
become the focus, and the most significant exponentially growing level of
the inverted pyramid.     It's not a matter of will we lose our "job" to a
robot, or will we become a "robot" for the AIs, it's a matter of we'll
finally be able to expend most of our effort on the self
actualization level doing whatever we want to do, with all the robot's and
AI's, and Avatar's help.  Once we start significant neural engineering, and
engineering (and subjectiving merging with) brains gazillions of times more
advanced than the current human brain, what is and isn't human will make
ever less and less sense.











On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> For those who think in terms of military organization: he is envisioning
>> a future in which AI is the officer corps and the humans are the enlisted
>> personnel.
>>
>
> So the trick is to become one of the flag officers - or the oversight
> above the flag officers.
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