Venator continues his line of thought quoted in the previous post:
"It was the metamorphs and their few full-human adherents who were the malcontents, the troublemakers - Lunarians above all, but others too, more dangerous because less obvious...." (p. 63)
Dangerous to what? Is this made sufficiently clear? The cybercosm does not maintain a social equilibrium because it thinks that that is in the best interests of all human beings. The way to serve the best interests of all human beings would be to find out what the malcontents want and help them to do it. They in turn would lead humanity forward - after argument and debate, of course. No, the cybercosm itself has some long-term cosmic plans that require it, if not to control, then at least to be able to predict, everything else that happens, including what organic intelligences do.
OK. Then let's communicate and cooperate with the cybercosm. But it does not allow that. But I wonder whether Poul Anderson has created an artificial conflict for the sake of the narrative. Another future history - which I cannot write! - might show beneficial human-AI interaction on a cosmic scale.
I did not know where I was going with this post until I had finished it.
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Any conscious entity is going to have its own aims and interests.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Exactly, which is why I would be so distrustful and skeptical of actual, real- world AIs and sophotects.
Ad astra! Sean
I'm partway through listening to this:
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/203-nate-soares
An interview with someone who wrote a book about artificial super-intelligence "If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies".
Kaor, Jim!
I remain dubious, because I am not at all convinced that actual, true AIs of the kind seen in Anderson's HARVEST books are even possible. But I don't mind him doing that, I think he wrote in one of his letters to me that he did not believe in all the ideas he examined.
Ad astra! Sean
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