Halloween Problem

post by Saint Blasphemer (Licht) · 2023-10-24T16:46:50.772Z · LW · GW · 1 comments

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Imagine that as AI populates it will replace Humans as the preeminent intelligent creature here in our world. This population growth and replacement of preeminent intelligent creatures is hypothetically equatable to that exhibited by Humans over Apes.

In the movie Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies, there is an argument concerning the growth rate of the Zombie population compared to that of the Humans. Zombies could grow their population in hours, Humans grow their population in years. This argument is compounded by the fact that Humans take much longer to mature into soldiers compared to their Zombie counterparts.

Think now that the growth and replacement of AI over Humans is like that of the Zombie over Humans. AI, hypothetically, can replicate itself faster than Humans.

Why might this be? Thinking of Human growth and replacement of Apes, we can argue that Humans ability to reason fed this outcome. Humans reason to survive. We can also argue that Apes reasons to survive. As the Human population grows, Humans collectivize and organize themselves hierarchically to guarantee survival. The collective reason comes up with different systems and means of accomplishing this. Over a timeframe of years, and setting aside other evolutionary factors, Humans grew and replaced Apes as the preeminent intelligent creature. We can argue that this came about because the Humans found a way to maintain the systems and means that were representative of the Human collective reason. This is unlike the Apes, who, if we grant they exhibit a collective reason for their survival, had an insufficient way (time-wise or other) of maintaining their system and means for collective growth and replacement compared to Humans.

If we take these assumptions as given, and we look now at AI growing and replacing Humans as the preeminent intelligent creature, what is the way AI maintains the systems and means representative of their collective reason, for their growth and succession, to become the preeminent intelligent creature over Humans?

P.S. This is open to deliberation: claims, assertions, assumptions, related questions, et al.

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