Extinction of the species while the species has 8.2 billion specimen seems like the most illogical thing to be woried about. If you have a full fridge of food and don't want to go grocery shoping, it doesn't make you pro-starvation.
If the population drops, and there's suddenly more space and resources available, people will want children again.
Milton Friedman's position that the sole purpose of the corporation is to maximize shareholder value is now accepted economic wisdom in the US.[1] So, once AIs get better at running businesses than humans, investment decisions will put AIs in charge. It's the free market in action.
Next big milestone to watch for: first big company with an AI in charge and outperforming competitors. This outcome is inherent in capitalism.
[1] https://desapublications.un.org/publications/world-populatio...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
Thats what we’re doing
Conways law always wins
KingOfCoders•6mo ago
antonvs•6mo ago
kubb•6mo ago
And these breakthroughs are by no means guaranteed. Remember, we still don’t have flying skateboards, despite all the technological progress since Back to the Future came out.
What’s stopping us is physics itself, not lack of sufficiently complex technology.
glimshe•6mo ago
kubb•6mo ago
2) Ability to recreate Earth-like conditions including gravity, atmosphere, sunshine, farming and raising livestock on a massive scale (hundreds of square kilometers) on Mars.
3) Ability to create adequate conditions for the transport phase.
4) Ability to justify the investment (most issues on earth solved, remember opportunity cost).
calciphus•6mo ago
antonvs•6mo ago
In the far enough future, and assuming we escape a technological collapse due to climate change or world war, something like a large base housing hundreds of people at a time seems possible. It could be built autonomously by reasonably intelligent robots, which isn't that much of a stretch from the tech we're converging on today.
But a true colony, with long term residents having and raising children, is essentially a fantasy at this point.
RickJWagner•6mo ago