[ExI] Free Trade

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 11/10/2025 21:50, BillW wrote:
>   agree with EFC/Daniel.  People-produced things will still be desired.  An AI can give us acceptable music in the style of any composer, but can it create new forms and sounds?  Remains to be seen.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'people'.

If there's a conscious intention behind the work, then it will probably 
be different to something produced by a purely automatic system, like 
our current LLM-based AIs.

Future AGIs will trend towards being 'people' in their own right, and 
who knows what they'll be capable of. Conscous intention will probably 
be one of their attributes, at some point. (And who knows, they may 
display other 'emergent properties' that we haven't seen or thought of 
before. We often talk about 'consciousness', maybe there are other, even 
better things waiting to happen. We would probably want to call that 
'super-consciousness', much like monkeys might imagine super-monkeys as 
having 'super-bananas'. You can't conceive of the things you can't 
conceive).

AGIs should lead to Artificial Super-Intelligences. ASIs will become 
better than biological humans at everything, without exception 
(everything they decide to turn their hands to, anyway. They would 
probably be capable of being better biological humans, but I doubt they 
would want to. They might decide to create some, though). If they ever 
come to exist. I think and hope they will, otherwise we will have failed 
as an intelligent species, and will go extinct (as all (evolved) 
biological things do) without any successors.

If we go the uploading route, then we will become the ASIs ourselves.

Another possibility might be to redesign ourselves, but I don't see that 
happening without the help of ASIs, or at least AGIs. Anyone who's 
studied biology in any depth will realise it's hellish complicated, I 
doubt that we can understand enough of it on our own to be really useful.

-- 
Ben