I still don’t get how Eliezer and (according to Eliezer) Robin think that life (or Life, whatever, a capital letter won’t do the trick) is going to shape the stars and (if I understand correctly) the whole Universe. For all we know, despite all the replication and optimization, living things don’t seem to have done much of that. Living things have shaped (to some extent) the surface of one planet. Big deal. If we changed the orbit of that same planet, I would think it impressive, compared to what we’ve done in the past. But still, big deal. It would only be one planet. Shape the Universe? How? And, if you don’t know how, why do you think life will do it?
(Let me guess, intelligence can do anything. All right. Intelligence is God. But, why?)
I still don’t get how Eliezer and (according to Eliezer) Robin think that life (or Life, whatever, a capital letter won’t do the trick) is going to shape the stars and (if I understand correctly) the whole Universe. For all we know, despite all the replication and optimization, living things don’t seem to have done much of that. Living things have shaped (to some extent) the surface of one planet. Big deal. If we changed the orbit of that same planet, I would think it impressive, compared to what we’ve done in the past. But still, big deal. It would only be one planet. Shape the Universe? How? And, if you don’t know how, why do you think life will do it?
(Let me guess, intelligence can do anything. All right. Intelligence is God. But, why?)