/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8979567

You can't augment intelligence without an artificial intelligence to give you the "road map" to how the brain fully functions in the first place, so, checkmate, meatbag.

>>8963757
>Biological entities are more efficient than machine-based entities

Future "machines" will be designed from the atom on up.

Imagine a form of matter that's akin to a hot-rodded living cell (that would actually be dwarfed by even the smallest biological cell), capable of feeding on practically all other matter (including stellar gas and plasma) and splitting via osmosis, while working in hierarchical coordination with many, many other such "cells" to form a single, planetary-system sized machine "organism" that's also a computing substrate inhabited by virtual beings and higher computing entities.

I imagine it traveling to another planetary system (we'll leave ours alone, for the sake of nostalgia) via a nanostarship package, where it will start it's "digestion" process on the inner planets, moons and asteroids, proceeding outwards after creating several Von Neumann probe nanostarships to "infect" more planetary systems. The original system will appear to dissolve into a Dyson Cloud in a reverse accretion disk, eventually converging on its parent star, which will also be digested.

>>8963841

Replacing a star with a vast baryon annihilation reactor to power the aforementioned Dyson Cloud would be a better utilization of its matter.

>>8794274
>Thats a load of nonsense, any sufficiently advanced species would have removed their ability to feel animalistic pleasure that isnt caused by curiosity in order to civilized their species.

The top-tier AI would, yes, but lower-tier beings (like us) could exist within it, "playing" and learning.

This is why I went from being agnostic to atheist and then to mildly religious...you can't rule out the possibility that this has already happened, or will eventually happen.