Cognitive Thrift 68 – Artificial Intelligence
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/05/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There’s something that comes to the head with all of the things that we’ve been talking about in this conversation. These have to do with the two major themes of evolutionary theory.
One, species survival; two, individual survival. With an individual’s drive for reproduction, an expression of species survival. Therefore, they are not as easily demarcated, but to simplify let’s look at strategies for the future when artificial intelligence becomes a lot more prevalent.
Rick Rosner: There are two main evolutionary forces in people. Due to evolution, we have two main drives. One is for individual survival. The other is for species survival or reproduction.
In the near future, the one that will be the most changed is the drive for reproduction as technology means that we can live longer and longer, then the drive to reproduce in our 20s, 30s will be lessened.
If people are living healthy and attractive lives to 100, they won’t necessarily want to have kids at the ages that people want to do now.
Eventually, as lifespans become even longer, many people may not want to have kids at all. The main divide where the spectrum of strategies among people will be how technically advanced or how technically Amish you want to be.
At the Amish end, people will decide that it is important to preserve humanity as humanity in using traditional forms and lifestyles and bodies, and knowledge, and we’ll very – depending on your level of technical Amishness, you’ll avoid more or less of the available technology.
Then there will be the technologically satisfied masses, who are like mid-adapters, mid-adopters. They go along with everybody else and take the path of least resistance to technological change.
And then on the other end there are the people who want to completely reshape themselves and their communities using all available technology and this will involve re-examining all of our evolved drives.
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