I’m finding it hard to choose between letting the AI decide what to do with the piece of matter/energy/information that allegedly is me or having it give me some Master PC like console / wishing well through which I can gradually change myself and explore reality at my own pace. I feel quite certain that if I chose the later, once I got close enough to the AI’s level of understanding I would have wished to just have let it take charge from the very beginning. I mean come on, how can anything a puny human like me chooses to do possibly be better than the decision of a God-like AI?
Btw, why do so many of you appear to be so certain that the heat death of this universe would be the end of everything? Doesn’t the Anthropic principle, quantum mechanics, the overall exciting weirdness about reality (which has recently started to become increasingly more apparent), eastern philosophy and a plethora of other things make it seem quite likely that this is not the only universe that exists?
Btw, why do so many of you appear to be so certain that the heat death of this universe would be the end of everything? Doesn’t . . . make it seem quite likely that this is not the only universe that exists?
Yes, but (as we understand it now, and for all practical purposes) this particular universe contains the entirety of what I will experience, what everyone I could ever know will experience, and what I can ever have an effect on. As such, I don’t much care about what happens in other universes.
I’m finding it hard to choose between letting the AI decide what to do with the piece of matter/energy/information that allegedly is me or having it give me some Master PC like console / wishing well through which I can gradually change myself and explore reality at my own pace. I feel quite certain that if I chose the later, once I got close enough to the AI’s level of understanding I would have wished to just have let it take charge from the very beginning. I mean come on, how can anything a puny human like me chooses to do possibly be better than the decision of a God-like AI?
Btw, why do so many of you appear to be so certain that the heat death of this universe would be the end of everything? Doesn’t the Anthropic principle, quantum mechanics, the overall exciting weirdness about reality (which has recently started to become increasingly more apparent), eastern philosophy and a plethora of other things make it seem quite likely that this is not the only universe that exists?
Yes, but (as we understand it now, and for all practical purposes) this particular universe contains the entirety of what I will experience, what everyone I could ever know will experience, and what I can ever have an effect on. As such, I don’t much care about what happens in other universes.