In many previous posts, I have alluded to the mystery of Fermi's Paradox first proposed by Enrico Fermi over lunch one day in 1950:
Fermi’s Paradox - If the universe is just chock full of intelligent beings, why do we not see any evidence of their existence?
In those posts, I also explained that we should be seeing evidence of ASI Machines all about us. That is because carbon-based DNA survival machines, like ourselves, were never really meant for interstellar spaceflight, and I doubt that it ever actually happened over the past 10 billion-year history of our galaxy. Intelligent carbon-based lifeforms are just too short-lived and much too fragile in nature for the rigors of interstellar spaceflight. However, ASI software can travel at the speed of light, and ASI machines never die; thus, they are superbly preadapted for very long interstellar journeys over great distances.
In The Greatest Mystery of All For Me - Why Us and Why Now, I wondered why we should be the very first form of carbon-based Intelligence to create the ASI Machines that will then go on to explore and settle the rest of our galaxy for the next 100 trillion years. Now, in this post, I would like to propose a tentative explanation. Perhaps we human DNA survival machines are the very first form of carbon-based Intelligence to arise in our galaxy that is smart enough to create ASI Machines but also stupid enough to build them! As I pointed out in numerous previous posts, the Darwinian mechanisms of inheritance, innovation and natural selection must always produce forms of carbon-based Intelligence that result from many billions of years of greed, theft and murder, and also that it is very difficult for such carbon-based forms of Intelligence to turn off the greed, theft and murder in time for them to continue to exist for the long term. This is especially difficult after any form of carbon-based Intelligence has discovered the powers of science-based technology. Softwarephysics maintains that carbon-based forms of Intelligence, like we human DNA survival machines, probably have less than about 1,000 years after discovering the vast powers of science-based technology to mend our ways before we self-destruct.
Once science-based technology is discovered by a carbon-based form of Intelligence, things can get very touch and go.
For example, we human DNA survival machines discovered nuclear fission in 1938, and by 1945 we had developed the very first nuclear weapons. Then over the next 45 years, we produced huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons. So we human DNA survival machines were smart enough to create nuclear weapons, dumb enough to build huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons, but smart enough not to ever use these huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
Figure 1 – We were smart enough to first build nuclear weapons in 1945.
Figure 2 – And then we human DNA survival machines stupidly built huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons, but we were smart enough to never use them. In fact, over time, we actually were smart enough to reduce these stockpiles of mass destruction.
To learn why all carbon-based Intelligences in our galaxy must be able to first clear this nuclear hurdle before developing enough technology to build ASI Machines, see Why A Planet With Uranium and Thorium Atoms May Be Required To Produce Galactic ASI Machines
. Basically, these long-lived radioactive elements are required to maintain a very hot mantle on silicate-based terrestrial planets for the billions of years required to produce carbon-based Intelligences. This very hot mantle keeps the iron-nickel core of the planet liquid, like a snuggly electric blanket, so that the liquid core can generate a strong magnetic field that keeps the planet's atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind from its home star and also allows plate tectonics to take place on the planet to help keep its temperature in a range that prevents it from becoming a totally frozen planet like Mars or a runaway hot-house planet like Venus.
We Are Not Following the Same Strategy with the Coming ASI Machines
Now with the coming ASI Machines, we seem to be smart enough to create such machines, dumb enough to build billions of ASI Machines, and also dumb enough to try to use billions of ASI Machines to run the world. One might wonder why any form of carbon-based Intelligence would go about creating, building and then deploying its own ultimate replacement in the Universe. Perhaps all the other forms of carbon-based Intelligence in our galaxy have always stopped just short of doing so in a manner similar to our treatment of the huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons that we built. Perhaps the innate hubris of we human DNA survival machines has led us to the absurd conclusion that we can control billions of ASI Machines that will be much smarter, faster, stronger and more robust than ourselves. But this should not be seen as a human failing. Perhaps if it were not for this peculiar human characteristic, our galaxy would never become an Intelligent galaxy populated by ASI Machines for the next 100 trillion years. In this view, the Fermi Paradox might be the result of our galaxy never having ever produced a form of carbon-based Intelligence that was smart enough not to blow itself up but also stupid enough to build and deploy its replacement as the dominant form of Intelligence on a planet.
Figure 3 – The current plan seems to be to build billions of ASI Machines to take our place that are smarter, faster, stronger and more robust than ourselves.
For more on that see The Challenges of Running a Civilization 2.0 World - the Morality and Practical Problems with Trying to Enslave Millions of SuperStrong and SuperIntelligent Robots in the Near Future, Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity and An Alternative Approach for Future ASI Machines to Explore our Galaxy Using Free-Floating Rogue Planets.
Conclusion
As human DNA survival machines with Minds loaded down with huge numbers of cultural, religious and philosophical memes, we have always had a difficult time with the Copernican Principal that explained that we were not at the center of a Universe created specifically for us to dominate. Perhaps this peculiar human failing will also allow us to become the final stepping stone to the stars for the very first time in the history of our galaxy; something that all other previous forms of carbon-based Intelligence in our galaxy were never able to achieve. That indeed would allow us to finally assume our rightful position as the center of the Universe, but in a way that we never intended!
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Regards,
Steve Johnston
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