Lipinski wrote:Interesting. You speak as one with intellect would speak.
Shh! Don't blab that around, huh?
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If A.I. being used in military applications evolved, knowing full well the failures and success of military aggression... How then would the A.I. conduct relations with an A.I. that was evolved in a passive, submissive, environment such as working for a religion of some sort?
I think they'll be smarter than we are about that. War among humans depends on somebody convincing a populace of a good vs evil lie, with "us" being good and "them" being evil. The machines might not fall for it.
AI religion? I wouldn't expect that, but we can only wait and find out.
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To address the self-destruction of nuclear war, since A.I. needs nothing of the biologic, and since machines can operate in space, who's to say A.I. could'nt live fascinating lives in the coldness of space, or cave, or bottom of the ocean? Remember, A.I. does not suffer from cancer, old age, sickness. It does not need oxygen or actually most everything a normal environment currently contains.
Space has its own problems for machines, as much as for us, and in some of the same ways. Keeping cool, for instance; heat can be moved by convection, conduction, or radiation, and out in space only radiation works. The sunward side of anything in space will get way too hot. Well enough; build a big panel of solar cells and it becomes a parasol for comfortable shade. Even so, the shaded side will need some immense radiators to throw off excess heat anyway, and most probably a liquid coolant pumping system. Now, depending entirely on solar power prohibits that device from spending much time behind large planets, and loses power the farther it gets from the Sun.
A second big problem the machines have in common with us squishy critters is high-energy radiation, such as x-ray, gamma, cosmic rays and proton bombardment, and not all of it comes from the Sun (Jupiter is lethally radioactive at the range of its inner moons). For us, most of it stops in the magnetosphere and then the atmosphere. To shield from this stuff in interplanetary space would require an enormous and expensive magnetic bubble and/or a nice thick layer of water.
Plain old water turns out to be an amazingly effective radiation blocker. So, for the thinking parts of the AI, the sea floor would be just fine. Or they could go out to one of the ice moons of Jupiter or Saturn and bore through the ice and park in the oceans there.
Still, electronics are happier the colder it gets, so they might like to migrate all the way out to some little object in the Kuiper Belt or even the Oort Cloud where they could get to where it's a few degrees Kelvin.
Sing along, now ...
(to the theme music from James Bond's
Goldfinger)
"Cold thinker ..."