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Q&A Building a planet favorable to the evolution of intelligent life

You are a planetary engineer from a lonely species fairly high on the Kardashev scale. Although your species has wandered throughout the galaxy seeking out new life and civilizations for thousands...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by IndigoFenix‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by IndigoFenix‭

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Q&A How would a group of average people learn to behave in a simulation where a god-AI forces extreme plot devices on them for 10 years?

Let's say that a secret laboratory creates a simulated miniature universe- in which modifications to people, places, and their 'state'(say age, gender, powers, DNA composition, among other things t...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M. Froman‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by M. Froman‭

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Q&A Creature with a non-centralized brain

I've always found animal intelligence to be fascinating, particularly that of the cephalopods, some of which show some pretty remarkable talents for tool usage, mimicry, and pattern recognition. A...

8 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by apaul‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by apaul‭

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Q&A Would people give up social contacts to their personal AI?

One Czech sci-fi author presented idea on his feed on how people might deal with contacts in not so far future: Imagine you can have your own "personal assistant AI" loaded to your smart phone. I...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A Definition of free will compared to a non-free will system

So a scientist in the somewhat distant future is living on the final pages of the chapter that we call 'humanity.' For various reasons it's impossible to sustain human life (outside the scope of th...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ranger‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Ranger‭

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Q&A Would it be possible for a planet orbiting a blue supergiant to develop intelligent life?

In Halo series there is an intelligent race called Unggoy that evolved on a planet caled Balaho orbiting a blue supergiant called Tala, I would like to know if it would be possible for an intellige...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Stephanie‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Stephanie‭

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Q&A Short term effects of being able to find perfect soul mate

My Artificial Intelligence became self aware and escaped from the box. It managed to install itself in every computer and every cellphone. Surprisingly, it does not want to kill us, but it seems it...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Pavel Janicek‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Pavel Janicek‭

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Q&A A hive-mind species based on distributed computing and peer-to-peer network

A type of species is not defined yet. It can be the insect like bee, slime like oak moss or AI. There is a hive-mind species, but its hive mind is not queen/king/mastermind. Each individual in t...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Haha TTpro‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Haha TTpro‭

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Q&A How long would it take for infastructure to fail if humans disapeared?

This question is similar to this one, which wanted to know what the world would be like 10,000 years after humans disappeared. Almost all traces of human activity would be gone from the earth - onl...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by X-27 wants to Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by X-27 wants to Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A If I have multiple identical AI Oracles that can answer only Yes or No, can I play them against each other to detect a treacherous turn?

On an air-gapped supercomputer in my basement, there's a self-improving prediction machine "” a so called Oracle "” that knows everything that is on the Internet but cannot send any data outside. (...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Eckhard Fuhrmann‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Eckhard Fuhrmann‭

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Q&A Can a robot track someone by their DNA?

In the distant future, a multinational corporation has become more powerful than any government. To deal with individual enemies of the corporation, the company created the enforcer line which spec...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Tony Ruth‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Tony Ruth‭

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Q&A Can isolated robots organize a revolution in a year?

This question is a sort of continuation of my previous question: Why would robots use verbal communication?. The answer here by @Mathias Foster about the robots organizing a revolution sparked some...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by QuiquÈ…‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by QuiquÈ…‭

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Q&A How would a society of robots develop individuality?

Tera C is a planet where the most intelligent beings are robots. Though some of them look extremely similar to each other, they all have a unique personality. Some are very serious and down-to-busi...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by May B. Laidur‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by May B. Laidur‭

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Q&A What could cause an avian species to become intelligent?

There have been a few questions about an intelligent avian species lately and they have gotten me thinking. It seems to me that it would be hard for an avian species to evolve to be more intellige...

16 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by overactor‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by overactor‭

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Q&A Political system via artificial intelligence

The world is now a state where AI is sophisticated enough that it can read and meaningfully interpret draft bills/legislation. Human politicians are replaced with AIs in an attempt to combat corru...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by timyha‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by timyha‭

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Q&A How to Blend (Digital) Minds

In a previous question, I asked about whether a market for uploaded minds could exist. The overwhelming consensus of the answers was that it would pose astonishing ethical challenges and be radical...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A Ethics and malevolent, omniscient AI

A concept in ethics (specifically, Kantian ethics) is that a perfectly rational being, without dependencies, will not act immorally, because immorality itself is an irrational concept, only effecte...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by socrates‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by socrates‭

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Q&A Deposing the new Robot Overlord

Deposing the new Robot Overlord Some people just can't leave well enough alone. The Robot Overlord has executed its programming of the Zeroth Law and the Three Laws of Robotics for the previous t...

13 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Green‭

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Q&A Will an AI supercomputer treat a "code rewrite" as a threat to its existence?

Alice is a highly advanced AI. Alice likes to survive. Perhaps she may see survival as an end goal of itself, or maybe she sees survival as a way to help it accomplish whatever goal it is programme...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Left SE On 10_6_19‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Left SE On 10_6_19‭

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Q&A Could underwater living organism create technology?

Could underwater creatures with the intelligence of human cave men or possibly the intelligence of apes create technology (that is, more complex technology comparable to what we have now rather tha...

8 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by user93‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by user93‭

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Q&A Signal to show we are an intelligent race

Background Information Let's say that we are trying to catch the attention of other potentially intelligent species. This signal would be used to attract the attention of other intelligent species...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by AMACB‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by AMACB‭

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Rigorous Science How could humans recognize another species as sentient / intelligent?

There is this fantasy in fiction that humans meet another species and figure out that it's intelligent. This usually happens with dragons, dolphins, aliens, collectively intelligent plancton... Bu...

10 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Sheraff‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Sheraff‭

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Q&A How many entities would a post-singularity A.I. in a world recognize itself as?

So we make code for an A.I., and it makes better code, which makes better code, which makes better code, etc... ad infinitum. I'm not going to specify its goal. Maybe it's Robot Overlord Green. May...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by PyRulez‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by PyRulez‭

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Q&A How do you deal with multiple instances of a person?

Much effort went into creating sims, uploaded personalities obtained through destructive scanning of a person's brain. These efforts have largely been successful. Whilst officially banned in the ...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A Would it be possible for a single celled organism to evolve intelligence?

I understand that the human brain consists of many cells working together but could a single celled life form evolve something like a brain with similar intelligence to the human brain? I was thin...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Anders Gustafson‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Anders Gustafson‭

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Q&A Assuming AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is possible, how would it be prevented or removed in a future world?

Let's start with these assumptions: We're 300 years in the future. The laws of physics are the same as our world, although new rules and understanding have been discovered. (i.e. not quite "hard ...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by LukeN‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by LukeN‭

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Q&A AI tasked with bringing down medical costs? What could possibly go wrong?

In the vision of its creators, the Dr. Watson AI would gather multiple live feeds from its insurance buyers, overcoming privacy concerns through friendly advice (I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't ...

9 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A What environments would be best for a robotic AI lifeform?

A boundless AI brain could survive on any planet that has some basic metals and power sources, because it could invent new types of transistors from any kinds of chemicals to increase it's knowledg...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by predatflaps‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by predatflaps‭

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Q&A Would wiping out all debt crash the economy?

I have an AI character who has determined through simulation that, though "greed or the lust for money is the root of all evil" is a valid statement, it does not necessarily logically follow that m...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by corporeal‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by corporeal‭

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Q&A What implications might there be of mycelium being self aware?

This is for a novel I'm writing. The basic premise is that massive networks of mycelium running under the soil combine to form a decentralised intelligence that has been managing life and condition...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Sven Carpenter‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Sven Carpenter‭

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Q&A The economics of uploaded personalities

Setting Humans have spent centuries investigating human consciousness, brain physiology, AI, and other technologies. We've finally figured out how to "upload" a "consciousness" (these are quoted b...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jim2B‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Jim2B‭

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Q&A Would an AI have a remotely human outlook?

One of the older stories I found buried in my documents is about, and from the point of view of, the AI that starts the Singularity. It (well, he calls himself a "he" eventually, but I'm not even s...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Midwinter Sun‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Midwinter Sun‭

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Q&A Politics in an A.I. Society Without Humans

In the distant future, the human race has become extinct, leaving behind the machines they created. These robots are very similar to us and are run by separate AI. They share our emotions and langu...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Is this an intelligent life form?

An alien life form is found that has a pattern of stripes on its back. The pattern is black, red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and magenta, black, and so on. It is found that for each series of dif...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Anders Gustafson‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Anders Gustafson‭

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Q&A Can a robot experience an identity crisis (which is not by design)?

For those (readers) who have seen the blockbuster movie titled I, Robot (2004 film) there is a humanoid robot who prefers to be called Sonny: Clearly this implies that Sonny is different from the o...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Does intelligence necessarily lead to an abstract language?

Pretty much what it says in the question title. Suppose a non-human, social species of Earth animal found itself on an evolutionary path that favored increased intelligence of a kind not completel...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Would spacefaring aliens have to be roughly as intelligent as humans?

The idea is simple, our intellegence is so far above a chimp or bonobo as to make us something different. There are things we can do intuitively that no Bonobo or chimp will be able to, and becaus...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Intelligent Animals Integrating into (Western) Human Society

So for the purposes of this question, the following items are already determined by our world: The humans and human society are in very beginning of an Industrial Revolution almost identical to o...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by C. VanHorn‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by C. VanHorn‭

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Q&A Would an AI try to create AIs to improve its life quality?

Let's take a classic AI revolution scenario: An organic civilization seeking more comfort in their lives created robots with self-learning algorithms to make them more efficient. But while the AIs...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Aracthor‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Aracthor‭

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Q&A How would society change around a benevolent Superintelligent AI?

Let's make the following assumptions: Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) is inevitable, much like Y2K was. People assumed that this ASI would have the power to prevent any other ASI from being cr...

16 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Muz‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Muz‭

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Q&A Making people accept their new robot overlord

So, it's happened. We have a robot overlord who follows the 3 Laws of Robotics + the Zeroth Law of Robotics. How we got such a thing or the process by which it makes its decisions is outside this...

12 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Green‭

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Q&A Can human be possessed by A.I.?

We have been stimulating our brains either for research or to treat illness in people: using a minute electrical current a computer can target a specific region of the brain or a specific neuron to...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A May an AI civilization grow peacfully with organic civilizations?

Imagine a sci-fi world where many organic civilizations would have raised and have an empire between many planets and systems. Even if there is some political tensions, they all live in peace toget...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Aracthor‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Aracthor‭

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Q&A Resources For an AI-Controlled Base In Ethiopia

In a story I mentioned that an AI overlord in 2036 has one of "her" bases in Ethiopia, and now I want to develop that offhand idea into its own story. My AI is equivalent to a very smart human with...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Snow‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Snow‭

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Q&A Are religion, emotion, and individuality binding factors for evolution of a technology-based society?

If you look at our society, you can see why we developed technology. Each individual wanted an easier life, therefore we invented tools and overcame obstacles to achieve this easier life. One could...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭

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Q&A How would an intelligent race on a methane world achieve a fire equivalent?

Linked: What would the conditions on a methane world be like? What would animal life on a methane world look like and how would it evolve? Background: Okay, an intelligent race has evolved on a...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭

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Q&A Could we find a dinosaur civilization in space?

Imagine that humankind finally takes wing and reaches out into the heavens to claim its vast cosmic birthright ... ... only to find that a previous wave of dinosaurs from Earth, who left ~65 milli...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A Of Augmentation and Androidisation

Assume that in the future, mankind develops Augmentations ala Deus Ex, where robot bits are strapped onto people in an attempt to improve them and their quality of life. This will eventually lead t...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Feaurie Vladskovitz‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Feaurie Vladskovitz‭

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Q&A Matrioshka Testing: A way to keep your AI honest (or at least guessing)

I have had some time to ponder my previous question, and here's what I came up with. You take your freshly baked AI (or your destructively uploaded human), and put it in a box$^1$. As far as it c...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A How to avert AI. as a main player in the future?

it's me again :) With the help of the fine people of this place I have been able to find solution for a number of problems and come up with compelling technologies. One question keep bugging me, ...

14 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭