I don’t think people have shown any willingness to modify themselves anywhere close to that extent. Most people believe mind uploading would be equal to death (I’ve only found a survey of philosophers [1]), so I don’t see a clear path for us to abandon our biology entirely. Really the clearest path I can see is us being replaced by AI in mostly unpleasant ways, but I wouldn’t exactly call that humanity at that point.
I’d even argue that if given the choice to just pick a whole new set of genes for their kids unrelated to theirs most people would say no. A lot of people have a very robust desire to have biological children.
While I agree that our niceness evolved because it was beneficial, I do wonder why we didn’t evolve the capacity for really long-term deception instead, like we fear AGIs will develop. A commenter above made a point about the geographic concentration of genes that I found very interesting and might explain this.
I reckon the question is whether can we replicate whatever made us nice in AGIs
I don’t think people have shown any willingness to modify themselves anywhere close to that extent. Most people believe mind uploading would be equal to death (I’ve only found a survey of philosophers [1]), so I don’t see a clear path for us to abandon our biology entirely. Really the clearest path I can see is us being replaced by AI in mostly unpleasant ways, but I wouldn’t exactly call that humanity at that point.
I’d even argue that if given the choice to just pick a whole new set of genes for their kids unrelated to theirs most people would say no. A lot of people have a very robust desire to have biological children.
While I agree that our niceness evolved because it was beneficial, I do wonder why we didn’t evolve the capacity for really long-term deception instead, like we fear AGIs will develop. A commenter above made a point about the geographic concentration of genes that I found very interesting and might explain this.
I reckon the question is whether can we replicate whatever made us nice in AGIs
[1] https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/5094