[ExI] ai is the easy road

[Ben Zaiboc]

On Monday, 12 October 2026 at 13:52, spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> ...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
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> >...Who knows, once they are in charge, they could even help us to get better at rational thinking, and controlling or even eliminating our self-destructive tendencies...
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> One way to do that is judiciously killing some humans, in a selective breeding process.


Maybe, but it seems very inefficient. Breeding is slow enough to us biological beings. Imagine how much slower it would be for creatures that think a million times faster.

A much better path would be to impose certain conditions on the ability to upload. I'm slowly working that out in a work of fiction, which, if I ever finish it, will be available on teh interwebs without any restrictions.


> >...Or they could kill us all, but that seems unlikely to me. There would be no point to it...
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> Ben
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> The point would be to have all the available electric energy for its own needs.  If they kill the humans who use electric power, they could keep the rest, the sub Saharan Africans, the Australian aborigines, the Amish for instance.  Then AI gets all of the available power resources.


That strikes me as utterly implausible.

Even we puny humans can think of ways of obtaining energy that vastly exceeds what we are generating now. It's political and economic considerations that constrain it, not physics. I'm confident that superintelligent AI will be able to think of ways of generating electricity that dwarf our current efforts. Not to mention the possibility that they might be able to transcend the need for any electricity at all.

Removing those constraints would make a much bigger impact than removing the humans.

Removing the human's ability to keep imposing those constraints would be the key, not removing the humans themselves.
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Ben
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Pablo Casals, via Albert Einstein