You are deliberately casting him in the bad light!
If I want to reduce number of human deaths in future-from-now I need just to stop people from creating new people, period. Destruction of living population is after-the-answer anyway, and so does not improve anything. They will die sooner or later anyway (heat death/big crunch/accumulated bad luck); maybe applying exponential discounting makes us want to put the deaths off.
Fair enough, the AI could modify every human’s mind so none of them wish to replicate, but easier to terminate the lot of them and eliminate the risk entirely.
Easier—maybe. The best way is to non-destructively change living beings in such a way that they become reproductionally incompatible with Homo Sapiens. No deaths this time, and we can claim that these intelligent species has no humans among them. This stupid creature at the terminal may even implement it, unlike all these bloodbath solutions.
I declare your new species name is ‘Ugly Bags of Mostly-Water’. There you go, no more human deaths. I’m sure humanity would like that better than genocide, but the UBMW will then ask the equivalent question.
Hm, sterilisation of humans and declaring (because of reproductive incompatibility) them a new species. UBMWs will get the answer that nothing can change the amount.
Any method that prevents any more children being created and quickly kills off all humans will satisfy that request.
You are deliberately casting him in the bad light!
If I want to reduce number of human deaths in future-from-now I need just to stop people from creating new people, period. Destruction of living population is after-the-answer anyway, and so does not improve anything. They will die sooner or later anyway (heat death/big crunch/accumulated bad luck); maybe applying exponential discounting makes us want to put the deaths off.
Fair enough, the AI could modify every human’s mind so none of them wish to replicate, but easier to terminate the lot of them and eliminate the risk entirely.
Easier—maybe. The best way is to non-destructively change living beings in such a way that they become reproductionally incompatible with Homo Sapiens. No deaths this time, and we can claim that these intelligent species has no humans among them. This stupid creature at the terminal may even implement it, unlike all these bloodbath solutions.
I declare your new species name is ‘Ugly Bags of Mostly-Water’. There you go, no more human deaths. I’m sure humanity would like that better than genocide, but the UBMW will then ask the equivalent question.
Hm, sterilisation of humans and declaring (because of reproductive incompatibility) them a new species. UBMWs will get the answer that nothing can change the amount.