I keep seeing people post a line like this and it makes about zero sense to me...
Just what the shit do you think Google/Microsoft/Amazon are pouring billions of dollars into machine learning/AI for? The first one that creates a self improving-self learning machine wins the game (or destroys the earth with a paperclip maximizer).
You and your human intelligence are not magic. You're biological hardware and software that a lot of people are spending a lot of time and effort on reproducing in a digital format.
This is (materialistic) nihilism. Materialism is a philosophy and not a new one, but an exceedingly sterile one, in my view. If you want to take that philosophical position you can, but others are free to reject it (and most people do) because it is only a philosophical position, not a proved description of reality (how can it be?).
Just what the shit do you think Google/Microsoft/Amazon are pouring billions of dollars into machine learning/AI for? The first one that creates a self improving-self learning machine wins the game (or destroys the earth with a paperclip maximizer).
You and your human intelligence are not magic. You're biological hardware and software that a lot of people are spending a lot of time and effort on reproducing in a digital format.