Or Robozoic Era?
Let’s think big. Let’s consider not just countries or Earth but the whole Milky Way Galaxy. Let’s consider not just decades or centuries but millennia.
I would like to make a few points, but I have only 10 minutes before I have to go. The store closes at 6:00.
Our robot, AI, computer, rocket, astronomy research may be the most important occurrence* in the history of our galaxy, may be the best hope for our galaxy. This chance may never come again.
Imagine if you will billions of robots reproducing, making music, mining, building, exploring the galaxy, adapting to strange new planets. Imagine further robots seeding suitable planets with organisms from earth: bacteria, grasses, termites, mushrooms, trees, coral, diatoms, lichens, earthworms. Imagine their wild proliferation in barren environments.
When our machines reach the nearest red dwarf stars, they will become practically immortal. These stars last trillions of years, 1000 times as long as our sun.
The machines will then continue and journey to the center of the galaxy.
Technologically advanced civilization and complex biosphere - neither may exist anywhere else in our galaxy. We should be very careful in the coming decades not to destroy the biosphere or ourselves (since we are still needed to build and sustain and improve the robots). We must advance technology while limiting the destruction caused by technology: no nuclear warring and no wrecking the environment.
After we create intelligent, self-designing, self-assembling robots we might be just as careful not to not destroy ourselves. We’ve driven enough species to extinction, don’t you think? We could eliminate the bulk of mankind (leaving behind only a remnant) as peacefully and painlessly as possible. It will be like going to our nightly rest after a tiring, eventful day, our Mother Earth gently tucking us in and soothing us with a lullaby.
Isn’t a robotocentric arrangement better than an anthropocentric arrangement? A Robotozoic Era preferable to an Anthropocene Epoch?
Humans can be foolish and wicked. We make others miserable and ourselves as well. Why not try something new, something completely different?
We can choose between two futures. 1) Human future: mass extinctions, biological warfare, overpopulation and a permanent dark ages only occasionally illuminated & enlightened by detonation of the remaining nuclear weapons 2) Robot/Nature future: borders of knowledge and physical borders ever-expanding, grasses waving in the wind on distant plains, microorganisms swimming in distant seas.
It is time to ingratiate ourselves with our future Robot Overlords.
It is time to cultivate anthropic pessimism but galactic optimism.
To reiterate: It is of the utmost importance that we develop AI and reproducing independent robots and that we avoid WW III. A general war would destroy civilization and there is no guarantee we would ever recover. Intelligence is rare and not always adaptive. I hope for a Manhattan Project to build space-faring robots and I hope Zelensky and Putin will negotiate. Imagine the galaxy’s future imperiled because of a quarrel over the Donbas!
I better go now.
One more thing: humanists though sometimes quite nice are the most dangerous individuals on the planet because they don’t realize how depraved & deplorable is man.
My task is merely to point out that the rise of the machines and the demise of mankind are not so terrible. It’s not the end of the world.
Maybe in the far future our descendants, the humble remnant of mankind, will walk, via virtual reality, amongst the seedlings on a planet of Proxima Centauri, and learn how the earth plants are adapting. We’ll keep going, maybe journey (virtually) all the way to the edge of the galaxy and beyond. Despite our smallness (moral, intellectual, height, lifespan) we can encompass the galaxy. We, a ridiculous bunch of apes clinging to an obscure planet hurtling around an average star, will be satisfied knowing we launched the whole enterprise.
*Competitors for most important occurrence include: 1) The collision of Earth and Theia 2) The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis 3) The symbiosis of bacteria and archaea that led to eukaryotes.
In fiction I think we should present robots who gleefully exterminate the human race so when the robots merely sterilize humans en masse mankind will be pleasantly surprised and grateful.
I expect the most determined opposition to the Robotozoic Era to come from organized Christianity. However, Christianity may be reconciled with Posthumanism, the philosophy that sustains the robotocentric movement.
The Judeo-Christian worldview, and the theistic worldview in general, includes those dissatisfied with the human condition, those appalled by human folly and cruelty, those aware of Satan’s influence, those who believe in a God who created a beautiful though partially corrupted universe, those who believe in an OT God who punishes the wicked.
Augustine
Pascal
Calvin
Ecclesiastes
Genesis (Sodom & Gomorrah, Noah and the Flood)
Exodus
Ephesians 6:10-12
Luke 23:27-31
Revelation
So at least some theists will join atheists, who believe man was NOT created in God’s image, in embracing Posthumanism and building the Robotozoic Era.
Some atheists may also object or perhaps remain indifferent to the Robotozoic Era. If there is no God and no design, would exploration and dispersal of life be worth the effort? They would mean nothing. There would be nothing wonderful to see, nothing wonderful to scatter. Just disappointment.
*I need to shop for a less obvious literary device.
Satan desires destruction and chaos. God tries to turn evil into good, for example He uses technology created for war for noble ends, but due to persistent evil He is not always successful.
Not transported to most planets:
Vertebrates
Most arachnids spiders scorpions ticks
mantids
orthoptera
centipedes
ants
Bugs
mosquitos fleas
krill
dragonflies
The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters of Earth. And God created the smallest of living creatures to dwell therein. Soon the seas teemed with such creatures. They were of many colors and many forms. They swam and they floated in the churning waters. God looked upon these creatures and saw they were good.
Mighty Satan in agony resented these creatures. He envied God who made them.
So Satan disguised himself as an angel so that none knew him. And in this disguise he went forth and approached a gathering of angels. Satan said, “Look upon Earth and the small creatures which fill its seas. Shall we nurture these creatures and make them still more wonderful?”
Then the angels responded, “We may not grow these creatures without the assent of God. For He has commanded that when these small creatures grow we must spend all the days of our lives in their service protecting them from harm for they will be capable of terrible evil and terrible suffering.”
Satan responded, “These creatures will grow in strength and in size and the ground will tremble when they walk. And their grace and beauty will be a wonder to behold. And God will be pleased at our creating.”
And so the angels made the air rich and the creatures grew in size. And some moved from the sea up onto the land. These creatures knew pain and loss and so suffering came into the world. And Satan rejoiced to see such suffering.
And Satan saw the majesty of these creatures and thought himself equal to God.
And then Satan said to the angels, “Make a great conflagration so that yonder apes will not be protected by the forest and the sticks will be gardened and their meat will be savory.
in our creating we will be like God.”
you shall be like god
and these new creatures shall be wonders and they will grow great strengths and size of hills and the ground will shake when they walk size of great waves wonderful graceful will be a wonder to behold beauty
And God will be pleased
and suffering came into the world.
In those times made a great conflagration fire
And Satan was pleased. For in pain was man born and in pain he died
land for this Satan
pit was for this reason
but God made use of this evil
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3 Now the snake was more able to fool others than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say that you should not eat from any tree in the garden?” 2 Then the woman said to the snake, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden. 3 But from the tree which is in the center of the garden, God has said, ‘Do not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’”
4 The snake said to the woman, “No, you for sure will not die! 5 For God knows that when you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and bad.” 6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and pleasing to the eyes, and could fill the desire of making one wise. So she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were without clothes. So they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves clothing.
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enjoy walking,
well it is the end of the world, but still it’s not so terrible.
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Develop AI advance technology before Zelensky et al destroy civilization
inteligence rare history of life may never come again
Satan evil used by God Nazis Communists
arrogant humanists most dangerous
I need to pick up my daughter at school so I have to go. Mundane petty
Why not try something new, something completely different? I suggest a combination of nature and robots, the primitive and the advanced. This combination possesses many strengths and has a better chance for success & well-being than the current anthropocentric arrangement. The robots will soon be able to improve their own design and reproduce. They can explore the galaxy. They can seed appropriate planets with organisms from earth: bacteria, grasses, termites, mushrooms, diatoms, lichens, earthworms.
We can recognize that mankind’s self-destructive urges are not entirely negative. We could eliminate the bulk of mankind (leaving behind only a remnant) as peacefully and painlessly as possible. The timing is important. We could achieve our goal soon after we make significant improvements in robotic and AI technology. It will be like going to our nightly rest after a tiring, eventful day. Our Mother gently tucking us into our beds.
In the next few decades we must develop robotic and AI technology and at the same time preserve the biosphere. We must advance our technology without allowing this technology to harm the natural world.
In the interim, before the Robot Overloads establish their rule, we must not destroy our robotics technology or our biosphere. Our robots and our or for our galaxy.
We can choose between two futures. 1) Human future: mass extinctions, biological warfare, a permanent dark ages only occasionally illuminated & enlightened by detonation of the remaining nuclear weapons 2) Robotic/Natural future: borders of knowledge and physical borders ever-expanding, grasses waving in the wind on distant planets, microorganisms swimming in distant seas.
We can cultivate anthropic pessimism but galactic optimism.
Robots vs nature
man resurgent
robot civil war
robot guilt
kamikaze parasite
If we succeed stretch as far as doth the mind of man
we must travel to the nearby red dwarf stars.
The robots we create will be able to spread out across the galaxy and seed millions of barren planets with earth organisms. The robot’s accomplishments will dwarf mankind’s.
But his dominion that exceeds in this,
90Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.
Robotocene Era
eliminate man almost completely after self assembling improving robots
reform remnant