The digital eugenicist Daniel Faggella argues that humanity should be replaced by a "worthy successor" in the form of AGI — his view is comically absurd and profoundly dangerous. (3,300 words)
This guy. 🙄 I wonder if he’s read CiXin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (3 Body Problem). Liu tackles the moral issues of what happens to humans disconnected from Earth and it’s not good. These Silicon Valley guys are so misanthropic and disconnected from reality…it really is a special kind of psychopathy.
"This is a recipe for nightmares to come true — on a cosmic scale. And it might be exacerbated by Faggella’s own suggestion that the AGIs that colonize the universe from the starting-point of Earth would simply try to annihilate other lifeforms that it might encounter:" Ian Douglas wrote a series of books about this idea. He called them "The Hunters of the Dawn" and they were a post-biological race that killed any other species that figured out FTL travel. The last book came out in 2009. I haven't thought about it in years until I read this.
This guy. 🙄 I wonder if he’s read CiXin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (3 Body Problem). Liu tackles the moral issues of what happens to humans disconnected from Earth and it’s not good. These Silicon Valley guys are so misanthropic and disconnected from reality…it really is a special kind of psychopathy.
"This is a recipe for nightmares to come true — on a cosmic scale. And it might be exacerbated by Faggella’s own suggestion that the AGIs that colonize the universe from the starting-point of Earth would simply try to annihilate other lifeforms that it might encounter:" Ian Douglas wrote a series of books about this idea. He called them "The Hunters of the Dawn" and they were a post-biological race that killed any other species that figured out FTL travel. The last book came out in 2009. I haven't thought about it in years until I read this.
I didn't know about this book series. Thanks for sharing!
Mad as a hatter and morally bankrupt.
Plus, the cognitive dissonance is astounding:
> If, as his first tweet suggests, the difficulty of the proposed task is "impossible", isn't his entire proposition an ill-fated fool's errand?