I'm probably not the only one thinking this, but I'm actually more worried about the alignment of who controls the power – the folks running things, the military-industrial complex – than about AGI itself. Right now, the bigger threat feels like other people using AI against us, not some rogue AGI suddenly taking over.
It’s not just paranoia either, there’s a lot of research into things like autonomous war drones (basically AI robots), which are designed for a very specific job. And the reason I think this is important is because once AI/AGI starts replacing most jobs, we lose the thing that gives us leverage – our value as workers. That's not necessarily my opinion, but what I suspect their opinion is – the people with the power.
The real question is what stops them from declaring independence and cutting ties with Earth. Especially after generations of people? They'd need strong ... propaganda, for lack of a better word.
Spin can be measured but what's the use for that? You can scan a chair and use the data to reassemble. If you get the wrong spins on particles do you not get the same chair? You're looking for a function which arises at higher level.
I don't understand, what is the purpose of measuring electron spin for your various atoms? Electrons are in a probability cloud, you need to scan/replicate the atomic structure, not measure the electron spin of your atoms. Doesn't really make sense for me, do you have something particular in mind or?
> Doesn't really make sense for me, do you have something particular in mind or?
Do you? I already said what I have in mind. particles are not indistinguishable and "scanning" objects without destroying them not possible in this reality
No, they'd have to print the whole human that's encoded as data. Provided the process is fast enough, and the tech is available, it should be way faster than growing a full human from cells.
There's also no point in talking what can be done today, since such a project would take quite a while, both to assemble and get anywhere close to destination. Just because we cannot do it today doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered as a possible approach since we might get there in 30-50 years, which is nothing for the scales of time we're talking about.
Cryo tech is quite primitive, you are fighting to maintain a structure instead of saving its data and rebuilding it later when tech allows.
Imagine 3D printing a benchy and freezing it so it stays "fresh" for 50 years (for some potential use at that time), instead of saving the benchy stl file and printing it in 50 years.
Plans for potential human expansion into our galaxy must include potential tech developments, can't block it to the tech that is available today. The way things are going there's no reason to discard full scan and reassemble of a full human being, in some future. Let alone moving consciousness on other type of more resilient hardware.
This is the most likely way we'd do it, provided we get over our cultural/political/religious limitations, which might pose a real obstacle.
The most likely way to move in the Universe is through something along the lines of von Neumann probes, which can be small machines sent at relativistic speeds across the whole galaxy, setting up these "spawn" points. Even at 10% speed of light it would take 1 million years to get such probes in strategic points to cover most of our galaxy.
Support is everything for these boards. At least that's the way I see it. I looked into replacing my rpi4 with some other manufacturer but I see a lot of issues with support, mainly older kernels work, some even have some obscure builds that you have to download from some forums. Where my 4 still works fine on latest kernel. Even my rpi2 if I'm not mistaken, though didn't try it lately.
It’s not just paranoia either, there’s a lot of research into things like autonomous war drones (basically AI robots), which are designed for a very specific job. And the reason I think this is important is because once AI/AGI starts replacing most jobs, we lose the thing that gives us leverage – our value as workers. That's not necessarily my opinion, but what I suspect their opinion is – the people with the power.