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Our humanity is at stake no matter how we evolve this tech, because the tech evolves our humanity. It's not a one-way street. Culture, not genetics, is the dominant human evolutionary force today:

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article-abstract...

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Exactly — hence the need to deliberately evolve it.

Have you never read any of the many Frankenstein myths? What makes you think we can "evolve" a superintelligence and then keep it bottled up?

No I haven’t and you raise a good point. I mean I don’t know what else to do. The alternatives are to build it and not think about anything beyond the tech itself or to not build it out of an abundance of caution.

And I’m not really as concerned about the super intelligence. I’m more concerned about the impact on our culture as humans.

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