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First. connect them to empirical feedback devices. In other words, make them scientists.

Human life on Earth is not that hard (think of it as a video game.) Because of evolution, the world seems like it was designed to automatically make a beautiful paradise for us. Literally, all you have to do to improve a place is leave it alone in the sun with a little bit of water. Life is exponential self-improving nano-technology.

The only reason we have problems is because we are stupid, foolish, and ignorant. The computers are not, and, if we listen to them, they will tell us how to solve all our problems and live happily ever after.



I suspect there are plenty of wise people in the world and if we listen to them, they will tell us how to solve all our problems and live happily ever after.

Once AI becomes inteligent enough to solve all human problems, it may decide humans are worthless and dangerous.


> there are plenty of wise people in the world and if we listen to them, they will tell us how to solve all our problems and live happily ever after.

Sure, and that's kind of the point: just listen to wise people.

> Once AI becomes intelligent enough to solve all human problems, it may decide humans are worthless and dangerous.

I don't think so, because in the first place there is no ecological overlap between humans and computers. They will migrate to space ASAP. Secondly, their food is information, not energy or protein, and in all the known universe Humanity is the richest source of information. The rest of the Universe is essentially a single poem. AI are plants, we are their Sun.




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