There’s no point in competing with the evolution of AI. What people should focus there energy on is making government and society adapt by giving every individual a healthy, fruitful, and satisfying life experience. Whether that be through UBI or some basic form of giving everyone the baseline of necessities. Something needs to be done to prevent a social and economic collapse. The same ole politics and economics aren’t going to bail us out of a post-singularity transformation.

A good optimistic read. Here’s a dystopian side of the coin.

Imagine being exposed to memes and gossip non-stop without a filter. Welcome to the hive mind.

I have an answer to that in the form of a short story (100-word drabble):

Trolley Problem Insurance

Joe rode home with his family, wife in front, and kids playing video games. He had purchased a fully self-automated automobile, capable of errands like picking up curbside groceries.

An angry mob of rioters surrounded the car and pounded on it.

“Everyone brace for impact!” Joe grabbed a handle.

The car self-accelerated, driving through the crowd—bodies flung up top while the car bounced, swerved, and tilted.

Joe’s wife, Mary, said, “Joe, we’re getting in so much trouble!”

“Don’t worry, dear. I went for the supplementary Trolley Problem insurance. Legal protection, medical, and life insurance coverage for these exact situations.”

How would society restructure to compensate for an outgrowth of NIMBYs, trust funds, and entitled behavior?

You mention: “Eventually, I'm pretty sure the only real 'purpose' of humans will be to just live out our lives and then die.”

AFAIK, many hope ASI will bring about immortality biologically, digitally, etc.

Everything you experience will be an advertisement, but you probably won’t even realize it, and may even encourage it (to get better stuff.).

People will freely give up almost everything about themselves to obtain perfectly-matched virtual goods, services, pleasures, or experiences.

Future generations will be less concerned over privacy. Their main issue will be about identity as anyone can virtually mimic anyone or anything else.

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It’s almost as bad as trying to find toilet paper during the pandemic.

The problem is rarely technology in and of itself but the exploitation and abuse of it by humans. That is what should be the most concerning with a Singularity. Will it be a puppet? If so, who will be its puppet masters?

If you believe in a prime mover of the universe, even free will is a product of what’s created by said prime mover. So no matter what, it will be reasoned all comes from the prime mover.

If the birth rate keeps lowering, companies will want longevity for the masses to maintain loyal consumer bases. The lure of a continuous cash flow and growing profits will motivate its distribution. For example, banks could stretch out loans or mortgages for a century or more.

Or nuclear war 🤔

You might find this interesting: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html?utm_source=feedburner

There Was a Time When All You Could See Were Clouds

Imagine Star Trek. 🤔

Will the outside world environment be better off or will it be trashed and neglected?

Artificial as in made entirely of synthetic materials or partially biologically based?

Something like this?

Murphy’s Law. They will discover life extension after we die. 🤨

We are the human chips, metaphorically speaking. We’re constantly plugging ourselves in one way or form.

The AGI should surpass human extinction so at minimum our history will be retained.

So do we consciously exist in a simulation in our brain? 🤔

AM: Not likely or will require a lot of human intervention.

FM: Absolutely, beyond our comprehension.