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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/YaKaPeace on 2024-01-11 17:40:31+00:00.
I hope I am not delusional with this.
If you go out anywhere today and look around, you will see everything we have created is due to our intelligence. Even sidewalks. Simple invention but there is not a single animal that is able to currently match an invention like this. Walk around anywhere and just take a moment to think about anything that you see and how humans have shaped it with their intelligence.
If we are able to create an intelligence that outsmarts us like we outsmart animals and doesn’t stop there, then there are going to be inventions made by this AI that will get so fundamental to us like sidewalks are today.
If we go beyond AIs „sidewalk“ inventions, then there will be things that we can’t even imagine yet.
The main point I want to bring over is that for a lot of people the singularity means curing some diseases and make some progress in creating energy, but for me this sounds like inventions made by humans given enough time.
I think that ASI will go way beyond that. I think of discoveries like a dopamine maximizer and solving the meaning of life, and what comes after these questions are solved?
Sometimes I don’t even know if this view is healthy, especially when these things don’t come true. But I can atleast hope that it will create infinite abundance for everyone, and I think that this is the best wish anybody could have for anyone.