1.a) Life's purpose is reasonably to do optimization.
- 1.b) Reference I: "Dissipative Adaptation", Jeremy England.
- 1.c) Reference II: Wikipedia/Laws of thermodynamics
- 2.b) Reference III: Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns: https://youtu.be/JiXVMZTyZRw?t=646
- 2.c) Reference IV: Demis Hassabis' prediction: https://youtu.be/rbsqaJwpu6A?t=918
3) Thus, our purpose as a species is reasonably to focus on AGI development.
Some benefits of AGI may be:
I) Solve many problems, including aging, death, etc.
- Reference A: For eg, ai can already do this: "Self-taught artificial intelligence beats doctors at predicting heart attacks"
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/ ... rt-attacks
- Reference B: For eg, ai can already do this: "AI learns and recreates Nobel-winning physics experiment"
https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/16/ai-le ... xperiment/
- Reference C: Richard Dawkins, "Big Think" Interview: https://youtu.be/SM__RSJXeHA?t=154