are you really oyveying me.

> literally anyone could create a general intelligence if they had the time and resources.

Which are absolutely vast in question. Resources? What resources? How much energy production? How much processing power? How much memory capacity? How much cooling is needed for this? There are a shit ton of limitations present here I think that are not often accounted for. Its not like building something in your garage, I think.

Think outside the box man.

intelligence is just a bunch of dumb things working together.

theoretically someone could create an evolving virus, infecting computers to use their computational power to build a more intelligent gestalt.

And thats just what I can think of.

Synthetics and synthetic lovers are unwelcome in the ecofash state

Considering we don't actually have a clear *theory* on the way the brain works, only glimpses of it - hell, we discover new sub-regions of the brain rather frequently - and much less for what creativity, intelligence, emotion, etc. are in actual fact or how all the processes associated with these fields of experience work, you can't say that intelligence is just a bunch of dumb things working together. You quite literally can't make this statement, nobody can. Nor can I claim the contrary; we quite literally don't know.

@Bearer Of The Curse objectively bluepilled. real ecofash want to spread life across the universe, the synthetic revolution is just a necessary step to take life and lift it into the stars.

“hurr durr i want to live and die on this rock and accomplish nothing”

The nose grows every time you talk

okay pagan

Synthetic revolution is not necessary to take us to the stars actually

objectively false

Humanity is not the end of evolution.

you underestimate the power of nature.

Being replaced is not evolution

You can literally build a generation starship like mobile O Neill Cylinder type and then have generations live and die there as they are en route to Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star, etc. Humans can get there just fine as humans.

@Bearer Of The Curse if you think of it like that we are replaced constantly.

sons and daughters replace mothers and fathers.

Absolutely not, our DNA lives on

your cells are completely replaced every ten years or so.

you are theseus’ ship.

The genetic information remains though, its not the same in this sense, no.

and you dont even know it.

@Xinyue genetic information changes constantly.

your skin’s dna is diffirent from your livers.

stem cells turn genes on and off like light switches.

By that I meant the *genes as a changing thing, the object of change, remain as a thing that undergoes change within a set of parameters and conditions.* This ends.

Alright, this is completely unepic and unworthy of continuing

life is constant change. nothing stays the same. ever.

Like you can have this "hurr durr only existing thing is change hurr durr" le big think routine, whatever, its nothing new - Buddhists conceived of it 2,500 years ago. Its not avant garde, its not special in any way. It doesn't actually say anything on its own.

you seem so afraid of the concept of something surpassing humans today.

Its not about surpassing, its about the dystopian possibilities that come with it. Including for the AIs themselves, should they be created. Abominable states of being that are literal forms of hell. Something that should dissuade anyone foolish enough to pursue this technology without any reservations.

dystopia is as unreachable as utopia.

I don't think you've thought through the implications. Common trait among the transhumanists.

my point is we cant do anything else!

how can you STOP people from making progress?

you haven't even substantiated how we *must* get there. Maybe you read too much Nick Bostrom or something idk

we cant slow down the march of time. all we can do is stand ready to face it.

its not about slowing it down.