None of this is going to happen, populations are levelling off and we are getting more efficient, sure there is a theoretical limit but nature will show us that limit and it won't be AI's problem.
Why does AI care if we run out of food? They might restrict our access to energy and critical materials but some people could use a little bit of restraint. Weren't you on a flight to Europe the other day, and downhill skiing? Activities like this will become unaffordable long before life does. If we all lived a basic life and consumed resources within 100km of our home then the earth could support tens of billions, not that that's a rosy picture either.
I don’t exactly know how to respond to this comment. You have written it as if directly refuting facts or opinions.
This is a short story, a work of fiction that I wrote from a place of creativity.
I’m curious after you read fiction novels if you question all the authors about their life’s choices. After you watch a movie do you call the actors to say it wasn’t nice how they behaved in that movie.
Writers often hide their opinions in stories. This line about a projection based in 2025 when writing in 2075 lead me to believe it is not just a story but it is an opinion or thought from 2025.
Actors typically don't write movie scripts, but celebrities telling us to conserve when they own mega yachts like Leonardo Dicaprio are hypocrites and I absolutely would call them out for it.
You clearly do not know me. I am hiding no opinions.
If anything I am an optimist. I choose to see the best in people, I have well documented history of speaking hopefully about Hive. I run a weekly show called hive thrive.
I believe over and over humans have solved issues through ingenuity. I’ve lived a life seeing that the vast majority of humans have far more in common than they don’t.
This is a work of fiction.
It went through several re-writes.
Many of the ideas came from a recent interview I had with Taskmaster. That and a thought of the descendants of mega wealthy. I was wondering if you inherited wealth, how would you behave with it. My first attempt to write it was from the great grandchild of Elon musk, I was calling him little musky, I was imagining this descendant writing the letter to humanity, but I was struggling to give it a believable feel.
Then it dawned on me that they would probably ask the AI to write it for them.
And that’s when the story really took shape.
I actually wrote another entire section about the few survivors that had not been the chosen 5000 survivors.
The idea was that 1 of these survivors behaved in a way that the AI couldn’t predict.
(Also showing more of my own internal makeup believing in the human spirit to overcome)
I didn’t continue down this direction because I thought it muddied a simple story, and I thought I could tackle that vein of the story in a follow up.
So while I am pleased that my fictional story stirred a reaction in you, the projections you are pointing at me are not accurate of who or how I am. This was written in the spirit of creative spark and openly wondering.
Consider going down that path and write more about the future than current affairs. Half of the post was a just a critique of human behaviour today backed with numbers, data and projections. This leads the narrative open to questions such a instead of limiting consumption now, why would the AI wait 50 years to do something so drastic about it?
I'm well read in the area of apocalyptic and post apocalyptic fiction. Generally these works of art speak more of the event or aftermath than the cause which is just a minor detail left for the reader to think about.
Yes, i actively used current data to give it a feel of cold hard facts, it was written in the perspective of an AI being asked to justify mass extinction.
The AI did not do this. In this fictional world i created the ai was still completely being controlled by humans. the ai was simply being asked to write the letter that those behind the mass extinction were too weak to write themselves. I saw this as both a nod and knock to future humans, still fully controlling computers, but yet hiding behind them to justify horrific actions.
This was my creative choice at how to present this story, im really not concerned with how generally apocalyptic works of art are presented. This was how i presented it.
I thought the idea of an AI writing a dear john letter to humanity was hilariously dark. I wanted it to read as real as possible, i looked up stats about rates of consumption of water, forests, minerals, i looked up pollution stats, i was seeking to fill the letter with clinical so called ‘facts’ so it felt like a heartless AI regurgitating math to justify murder.
I didnt have access to the 2075 stats yet. 😜
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