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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

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1106 points sama | 2 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Ericson2314 ◴[16 Sep 16 12:54 UTC] No.12513632[source]▶
Planet diversification and renewable energy are good priorities, and that not doing them narrows future options dramatically, but the other things on this list are pure sci-fi fandom. Cyborgs and whatnot will probably come around eventually bit I see no reason to hasten them. I'd like to fix our current problems before these things make them more intractable:

- inequality

- workaholism of upper classes skewing culture

- degredidation of biodiversity worldwide

If we move to Mars let's make this planet a temple. 50% earth surface no humans or something.

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1. djokkataja ◴[17 Sep 16 00:47 UTC] No.12518486[source]▶
Cyborgs are desirable because they solve the "control problem" of AGI. Essentially, if you create a superintelligent AI, how do you make sure it doesn't outwit you and all other humans in order to do terrible things? There aren't any plausible methods that I'm aware of to accomplish that goal. So you sidestep it by not making any AI that's more intelligent than humans. Unfortunately there also aren't good ways to make sure that no one makes AI that's more intelligent than humans (plus arguably superintelligent AI could be an extremely good thing if it doesn't turn into Skynet). So the remaining obvious option is increasing human intelligence at the same time as we improve AI -- or even better, merge humans and AI together.
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2. Ericson2314 ◴[17 Sep 16 17:59 UTC] No.12521585[source]▶
So, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em :)