In fact, I think we need to build Gaia if we want our species to survive for a bit longer. We cannot continue as parasites and should create a global nervous system that turns the planet into a single organism. That would be be the most relevant AI project I can think of.
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These networks evolve only in response to evolutionary pressure. Such pressures exist between competing units, but there is only one biosphere, which does not compete. Hence the absence of an immune response against our species.
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It is tempting to see climate change as a fever that rids earth of the infection with an industrial civilization. And while that is technically true, I don't think it is functionally true. We could have switched to solar thermal in 1950 and may have gone extinct much later.
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An immune response is an adaptation to a threat that happened enough times to allow a population of organisms to evolve a defense. A novel disease usually just kills the organism. We are the first industrial civilization that our single biosphere is being confronted with.
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Oh, I am not worried about life itself. We are just going to take off most of the mammals and amphibians and a substantial subset of all eucaryotes off the table. Life will go on just fine.
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I don't think that we are literally responsible. Our civilization is a vast and very complicated machine that tumbles down into a ravine while everybody pushes frantically on all the buttons they can reach. Are you familiar with this thought: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ …
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