kromem , 9 months ago

The idea that evolution is always progress is incorrect.

It’s more like a random walk where adaptable changes are more likely to continue and maladaptive changes are more likely to die out.

But we live in a society where we artificially keep maladaptive humans alive to reproduce, and even tend to have them reproduce at a higher rate than the members of society that are most adaptable.

In theory this could be an issue if we were going to depend on adaptive changes to human biological and environmental developments for continued success.

In reality, it’s not going to matter as within a generation we’re going to have effectively infinitely scalable AI which is more adaptable than the average human and will offset the growth in maladaptive humans relative to adaptable.

Which will still not matter, as within a century the various debts we as a species are taking on will likely have inescapable consequences that doom us all, at best our cultural legacy living on with the continuation of AI that is adaptable to the environmental hellscape we leave behind.