I'm reading about nazi science recently and as you know they famously had an obsession with eugenics.
Making the hypothesis that if they won the war humankind would be much more advanced in genetic manipulation today since:
1 - the germans gave 0 fucks about ethics and human experimentation
2 - they would have invested a shitload of ressource into it because of their boner for breeding
But they lost the war and eugenics became a taboo science, which still remains 65 years after the war.
Instead we saw the rise of computing and instead it seems that society is aspiring more to artificial paradises and post scarcity powered by an AGI than physically and intellectually superior children.
However there is a huge existential risk to our species brought by the emergence of an AGI (which has been frequently explored in the fiction).
Do you think a cognitively superior species would have better pulsion control and avoid AGI? Are we currently in the bad spot where we're smart and techno advanced enough to build such things but too dumb to grasp the implications of doing so (like a kid playing with matches).
Making the hypothesis that if they won the war humankind would be much more advanced in genetic manipulation today since:
1 - the germans gave 0 fucks about ethics and human experimentation
2 - they would have invested a shitload of ressource into it because of their boner for breeding
But they lost the war and eugenics became a taboo science, which still remains 65 years after the war.
Instead we saw the rise of computing and instead it seems that society is aspiring more to artificial paradises and post scarcity powered by an AGI than physically and intellectually superior children.
However there is a huge existential risk to our species brought by the emergence of an AGI (which has been frequently explored in the fiction).
Do you think a cognitively superior species would have better pulsion control and avoid AGI? Are we currently in the bad spot where we're smart and techno advanced enough to build such things but too dumb to grasp the implications of doing so (like a kid playing with matches).
