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Originally shared by David Brin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Many Big Thinkers foresee AI outstripping organic humans and rendering us obsolete \u2013 at-best patronized-beloved old farts and at-worst disposable. There are some potential soft-landings, though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 \u2013 Merge with the machines, the dream of Ray Kurzweil and other cyber transcendentalists. There are many reasons to doubt the possibility, but none are yet decisive. So I portray it working very well, in a post-singularity society, in my story \u201cStones of Significance.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 \u2013 Augment organic brains and people to keep up. Of course my Uplift Universe is all about this, as are the \u201caugments\u201d in The Postman. And the \u201cdittos\u201d in Kiln People. And several stories like \u201cTransition Generation\u201d and \u201cChrysalis\u201d in my collection Insistence of Vision. Those who believe our brains are \u201cquantum\u201d think that we have time. We probably don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 \u2013 Emphasize the one thing that works well in humans \u2013 our ability to get more done in groups, and even (sometimes) show collective, positive-sum wisdom. Louis Rosenberg suggests that our chief hope will come from developing a \u201chive mind.\u201d Nor is he the first. After all, this is what Teilhard de Chardin wrote about, a century ago and it\u2019s a recurring theme\/prescription in the futures of both Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. (It really was cult-like, amid the despair following the atom bomb.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, I portray a \u201cMacro Mind\u201d in my novel EARTH, but it\u2019s different. More loose and flexible and willing to accept the individuality of her human components, the way any sane person admits \u201cI am many\u201d and listens to the cacophony, within. Indeed, even looser \u2014 this is the key underlying the successes of Enlightenment Civilization\u2026 and it is the thing targeted by its enemies to be destroyed. (If they succeed, we\u2019re all doomed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 – Raise them as our children. We already deal with creating new intelligences who are smarter than us! We know how to do it, such that only a very small percentage of adolescents actually try to carry our their loud threats to \u201cdestroy all humans\u201d! I portray this in EXISTENCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n And yes, I\u2019ve thought about this very problem, from a myriad angles, for a very long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/futurism.com\/keeping-humanity-must-cultivate-hive-mind\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n https:\/\/futurism.com\/keeping-humanity-must-cultivate-hive-mind\/<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sharing to read later.
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