re: Let's talk about the future of humanity and AI's

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I think what may also be terrifying is when we start to try and transfer sentience to other beings. I have no doubt that one day, people will want their cat or dog to respond to them in a different way.

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I think other creatures, even plants, have degrees of sentience already. We are the most advanced but it's difficult to live with a dog or cat and not recognize their abilities to think, even reason.

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Imagine a universe with only self-sufficient, self-maintaining machines after all organic life has perished.

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The vast majority of the Universe is composed of energy. Energy is matter in motion, therefore matter is energy that isn't in motion. Does it really matter, no pun intended, the nature of what composes life? Organic matter is merely that which includes carbon.

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I wonder what'll happen when our sentient mechanical arm reaches the edge of the universe (should there be one) and tries to cross into other universes like a virus?

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Perhaps it's the natural process of life as a chemical chain reaction.

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If we don't kill each other first.

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That would be especially tragic if we are indeed the beginnings of conscious intelligence.