I think humanity has a choice to decide if it wants to be a tumor or not.
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Humanity is not even an agent. How could it make decisions?
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One major difference: biosphere is not an organism.
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The biosphere itself is not being selected for, but it has highly entangled regulation complexity. The biosphere is a system of complex interdependencies, where complex organisms and groups are implicitly and explicitly regulating towards the stability of their food chains.
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why just humanity? you could pick any organism and cast it as a tumor. the microbes that oxygenated the atmosphere were more cancerous than anything humans have done.
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There is nothing wrong here, I am just descriptive. We are probably going to wipe out a large chunk of fauna and flora, but we are in no way endangering life itself.
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It could also be seen as a worm morphing into butterfly and to do so it is absorving all life from previous self to do the transition
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The problem with this metaphor is that the tumor is not going to flutter around the flowers and lay its eggs to grow a new organism after the host organism dies. Perhaps AI could be our butterfly, a sparkling machine being rising out of the ashes of a failed human civilization?
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The biosphere doesn’t have moral status. Humanity does. Humanity is literally the most important entity in the universe since we are the _only_ important entity in the universe.
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Surely non-Universal Explainer yet conscious creatures matter more than unconscious objects?
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