[extropy-chat] Fools building AIs (was: Tyranny in place)

[Ben Goertzel]

> Perhaps they aren't even evil.  Perhaps they are so disgusted with
> human foibles that they really don't care much anymore whether much
> brighter artificial minds are particularly friendly to humanity or not.
>
> - samantha

Well put.

I asked a friend recently what he thought about the prospect of
superhuman beings annihilating humans to make themselves more
processing substrate...

His response: "It's about time."

When asked what he meant, he said simply, "We're not so great, and
we've been dominating the planet long enough.  Let something better
have its turn."

I do not see why this attitude is inconsistent with a deep
understanding of the nature of intelligence, and a profound
rationality.

-- Ben G