Futuristic theses about your bright future

Vitalik Miniaylo
Approximate reading time: 8 min
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Which will come after the emergence of strong artificial intelligence or before. This article is needed to make it clear to everyone that their life is not meaningless and everything is moving towards a very bright future that we have never dreamed of. But the coming of which can be accelerated by your efforts as well.

Thinking about the future is based on the assumption that the creative possibilities of human thinking are limitless. No other conclusion can be honestly drawn from the available empirical evidence, so if you have doubts and/or are bored, you can try to refute it here. We are considering a scenario where the development of humanity will not be stopped by an uncontrollable accident, like a giant asteroid that will destroy everyone. Without such an accident, keeping any rate of progress, sooner or later humanity (or any other civilization of thinking beings in any corner of our beloved universe) will reach the point described below (info - hundred).

Sooner or later, self-developing artificial intelligence will be created

Whether by accident or purpose, in the lab of a large corporation or by craftsmen in a basement, sooner or later, strong artificial intelligence will be created. Strong AI is when a machine can learn and solve tasks of any complexity without human intervention.

Then people will direct strong AI to improve its hardware and code, and the machine will think even faster. And so on, you get the idea. The creation of a strong AI will allow automating and scaling exponentially scientific activities to quickly solve problems of any complexity (for example, a cure for old age and currently incurable diseases). After all, any unsolved problem can be viewed as an insufficient amount of experimental and theoretical activity spent on finding a solution to the problem. And self-developing AI can instantly (or a little longer) create such a resource as much as you want.

People will live forever

With the help of such artificial intelligence, people will pump up and constantly improve their physical and mental abilities to the highest level available at the moment. And then they will stop dying altogether. After all, it is important to solve the issue of life expectancy first and foremost to get time for all other things.

It is better from the point of view of any serious occupation that a person is engaged in. In any activity, you can infinitely improve your results and become happier and happier from it. Whether it's listening to music or creating funny pictures. Therefore, it is better to live forever than vice versa.

In this regard, people will overcome old age and pump the body more and more thoroughly (first prostheses, then cells will be cleaned of debris, and maybe they will gradually replace cells with something more suitable for an unfinished endless life).

Thanks to the top 1 individualized, constantly working system of real-time monitoring and treatment of the human carcass, tailored to your characteristics, no one will ever get sick and/or die again. People will rather find the opportunity to live forever, not just for a very long time, because this option is the only one that does not contradict the idea of the infinite possibilities of human thinking, which is still well founded.

Each person will have an infinite model for increasing happiness so that they don't get bored during their infinite life. Nowadays, we often "feed" on dopamine from the expectation of achieving some result, and when we get closer to the cherished goal, it loses its meaning and is replaced by a new, more distant one. Our activities and their results often do not indulge in an increasing level of satisfaction, which is why we often feel bored. We can't live like this forever.

With the help of AI, we will develop individualized exercise programs to continuously increase the level of happiness. As a result, every day will be so much better than the previous ones that you can never get used to it and never get bored. Every day will be like the first time (or the second). Oh yeah, there will also be a virtual reality with neuronal connectivity, indistinguishable from real reality (like in The Matrix). Where you will be able to:

  • Go about your business in an individual universe. Alone or with any people who agree with you there. Or replace those who disagree with more compliant robots, if, for example, you get bored with your woman in this world, but she doesn't;
  • to overcome the limitations of the real world to raise the bar of happiness so much that you can never get used to it and never be bored again;
  • to fly like a flying squirrel over the blue shores during the sunset with increasing color saturation;
  • and all that kind of stuff.

People will be able to change themselves completely

With the help of strong AI, people will be able to completely fix their appearance, diseases, and personality traits they don't like.

Thanks to the top-1 individualized education system aimed at your peculiarities, you will be able to learn anything painlessly and quickly. Or you can even download skills and abilities from a flash drive.

In virtual reality with neural connectivity, it will be possible to go through painless adaptation programs if you are a criminal or a fucking maniac and you feel good only when others feel bad. Such people also appear, and now they are simply isolated from others by a psychiatric hospital, death, and/or prison (a place with an environment that undoubtedly helps criminals become better).

And in VR, it will be possible to gradually switch from slaughtering people (bots that don't hurt) to skiing along forest edges. Skinners will also change their aesthetics and won't be interested in abusing your little brothers, so they won't be interested in abusing you:

Animals will never suffer again

In addition, it will be possible to upgrade the animals' "iron" to the level of human capabilities so that they can take care of themselves on their own and be as healthy as humans. Therefore, there will be no stray animals.

...But your dog will remember everything.

People will create artificial solar systems and galaxies too

This is how we will solve the problem of overpopulation and the need to capture new areas of the universe to increase our chances of survival. We will constantly, and increasing rapidly, transform raw space material into a part of the controlled body of our modest and expanding civilization. And thus add nines to the number of probabilities that we will never glue high-tech flippers together.

If someone is confused by the story with artificial solar systems and galaxies in the subtitle, then someone was once confused by the prospect of creating multi-story residential caves, too. But people have successfully started to make them, and now everything is normal.

What else?

Yep, it's time for our occasional "nice bonus" section: this time for those who can't be completely happy without deceased relatives and pets.

Self-evolving artificial intelligence is likely to be able to create large models of complex processes and control elements in them in a pointwise manner. For example, it could create a complete model of the solar system at the level of the smallest particles, including the entire history of mankind. And a complete model of the life of all particles of every grasshopper, insect, and any organism that has ever lived or died.

And then restore the carcass of each dead grasshopper atom by atom (or somehow) to a state where it could still be saved from death - from the same atoms to mold back the same living being. In this way, it will probably be possible to bring all dead pets back to life.

After all, not so many of them have accumulated over 10 kilometers, and there is plenty of material in space to replace some atoms with similar ones. That is, it will be easy for us to do. And since we will have such a great life, we can bring back those who did not live to see this bright time. As a sign of solidarity, for example, or because we stand on their shoulders.

As for the return of bad people, there was a point about virtual reality above, where they can be painlessly adapted to the top life so that everyone feels comfortable.

As a result of all of the above, human or animal suffering as a phenomenon will disappear forever (unless you get high on suffering on purpose), and people will increasingly increase their happiness levels + turn the raw universe into a part of their civilization to increase the likelihood of survival...

As we can see, everything is heading toward people living forever in an environment that is slightly better than any concept of paradise. And this can happen right now, any day now, if everyone pushes and makes a self-developing AI. It can also be created very quickly if, for example, a machine is taught to extract information about the world around it from texts on the Internet, where the world has already been described by people at least 100 times more than completely.

So, a bright future may come not only in our lifetime but also in the lifetime of our grandparents. So things are not so bad. And if you still have pimples or things don't go well at work, it won't always be like this. There's still something to strive for, and life is not meaningless.

In the meantime, you can like, repost, and send it to your friends who might be interested and who might send it to their friends. And next time you have a beer, don't hesitate to tell your colleagues, and your bright future will come sooner.

Criticism of my thoughts in substance, not form, is welcome. I'm ready to retract any judgment if it turns out to be wrong because I'm trying to understand, not prove anything.