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Everything matters to me. I do not matter to the universe. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. ΔS > 0.
Only conscious entities can have values and meanings.
In an infinitely large system, the total entropy can increase indefinitely.
ancestors/predecessors who cared about the survival and sustainability of consciousness in their future.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 23/09/2023 11:55:04ancestors/predecessors who cared about the survival and sustainability of consciousness in their future.What evidence do you have of the postmortem aspirations of a dinosaur?
Only a few conscious entities have invented values and meanings, and they can't agree on any of them, so the concept has no cosmic significance - just a blip in the random nature of evolution.
Speaking as a finite system, I can foresee the point where the next increment of S becomes irrelevant to the intended function of the system and the Cosmic Torch of Progress is handed to the worms.
Technology will advance, without doubt, but it will be outpaced by the multiple problems mankind is facing before the end of the century.
Those who disagree with the universal terminal goal will eventually become irrelevant.
Quote from: paul cotter on 23/09/2023 15:19:28Technology will advance, without doubt, but it will be outpaced by the multiple problems mankind is facing before the end of the century. I don't think so. Thinking capacity of individual humans are inherently limited by the size of the skull, which was necessarily small to allow other functions required to survive sustainaby. The same limitation doesn't apply to AI.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 23/09/2023 15:06:32Those who disagree with the universal terminal goal will eventually become irrelevant.If anyone disagrees with it, it isn't a universal goal.
AI can't stop climate change, nor prevent politicians from telling lies.
Nor can it solve food and resource shortages, out of control migration and subsequent wars.
Off course, Hamdani, gun toting robots could solve all the planet's problems but it wouldn't do much for humanity. Hamdani, I think you watch too many pop-sci and sci-fi videos and you are out of touch with reality.
That sounds like you would like to see the end of humanity and give the planet to the robots, does it not?
Why not?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 24/09/2023 03:17:09Why not?Because they all depend on climate stability, which cannot exist.