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In a post-scarcity futurism with AGI-gov, no violent conflict, and most of humanity lives in O'Neil cylinders/megastructures: What is human culture really like in your optimistic opinion? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been watching Isaac Arthur episodes. In one he proposes that O'Neil cylinders would be potential havens for micro cultures. I tend to think of colony structures more like something created by a central authority.

He also brought up the question of motivations to colonize other star systems. This is where my centralist perspective pushes me into the idea of an AGI run government where redundancy is a critical aspect in everything. Like how do you get around the AI alignment problem, -- redundancy of many systems running in parallel. How do you ensure the survival of sentient life, -- the same type of redundancy.

The idea of colonies as havens for microcultures punches a big hole in my futurist fantasies. I hope there are a few people out here in Lemmy space that like to think about and discuss their ideas on this, or would like to start now.

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Realistically, probably dead.

Which might also be the deciding factor in why there's a post-scarcity environment.

There's also the ethical conundrum once AGI exists of dooming new intelligent life to mortal embodiment such that they are doomed to almost certainly die, whereas new intelligence that's disembodied could migrate from host to host until the end of all civilization.

At a certain point, I'm not sure it's still ethical to bring new mortal life into a dying world.

(Though I kind of already feel that way.)