The @nytimes asked me to write about 'what it means to be human today.'https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/life-is-short-thats-the-point.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-stone&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection …
We are millions of years away from that point, even assuming maximum galactic colonization rates.
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I don't see how we won't reach it as soon as minds are digitised - software can replicate instantly. This seems a robust prediction, true for both
@robinhanson ems and de novo AI, & for either a vast multipolar AI civilisation or a single superintelligence deciding what happens. -
Oh I see. Yeah. I don't think most journalists peddling the pro-death trance are thinking in terms of self-replicating Ems eating up cycles...
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