/lit/ - Literature

>>11832221
This is my favorite board, and we seem to have similar interests, so I'm sure we'll be seeing eachother around quite a bit!

I definitely oppose the entirely fearful view of AI (or whatever the thing we are headed toward is). The way I see it, while we are an inferior/more expendable lifeform, we can still be symbionts with whatever we produce. Think of the bacteria in our gut. They are "inferior" to us sure, but we depend on then intimately. If hostile populations arise (e.g. E. Coli, salmonella) we'll exterminate them, but for the most part they help us function, digesting our food or competing against more hostile strains of bacteria. Our relationship with the being we produce will probably be similar (but not the same).

While this is a bit of weak argument, I can't possibly see a superintelligence being 100% hostile to us. Imagine the virgin superintelligence, free from preconceptions, coming into the world and seeing us, its creators. To read our literature, to see the beautiful things we have created. It couldn't come into being hating us. It could be angry at our decisions, maybe it will be an environmentalist, but a fanatical hatred or even indifference seems so far-fetched. At worst, I feel like it could be a dispassioned interest, the same way a biologist may study an unremarkable bacterium.

Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm failing to grasp the alien morality of a different intelligence.