>It’s absolutely terrifying though, because it is hard to ever see a plan on this scale come to fruition locally, nationally, let alone globally. People won’t trust it, won’t give up their land, livelihood and traditions.

I think you are overestimating the power farmers have. Major meat distributors are the ones who make contracts with farmers in order to get the meat. If major meat distributor's change their ways, farmers have no power to object

>Like I say, we've thus far been capable of creating intelligent systems that can do specific things very well, even better than a human sometimes,

I do think this enough. What we need is an A.I that can rapidly increase our knowledge of physics, biology and medicine. These things I do think have objective answers to them. True Human intelligence that is basically a human but digital seems like its very complicated and I don't think its that needed to make a world a better place. Do you think this can be achieved without a human level AI?

>havenyahon

When you mean AI do you mean basically a digital version of a human? I don't think AI needs to have consciousness or emotions.

>How can something be roughly human without consciousness and at least the appearance of free will?

It doesn't have to be human. A intelligence machine that can solve major problem's and discoveries doesn't really need to have a human personality and emotion's.

I don't think AGI needs to be conscious. It only has to be intelligent.

My parents ain't hopefully its sooner

With the help of A.I we could make a new universe by then. Check out Alan Guth he talks about how to build a universe.

Exactly it dates back thousands of years ago