Which Is A Bigger Threat To Humanity? Science Or Religion?

[OdinHades]

kopstudent89 said:

OdinHades said:

The end of us could just be another step of evolution. Machines and AI could explore the universe much more efficiently than us humans. Robots have already conquered the solar system, they have been to Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto and whatnot while us humans only made it to the moon. Maybe we don't even need to preserve humanity. I mean don't just always think about yourself but also others, isn't that what religion teaches us?

I say we should be nice to any form of super AI that might evolve in the next 100 years or so. If we are lucky, it will keep us as pets, the same way we keep our dogs and cats. But I don't think it's neccessarily a bad thing to just accept that humanity itself will one day be heavily outclassed by machines and AI.

umm no thanks fam, would rather kill myself 

Don't worry, we will probably not be alive when that happens anyway. But I think our grandchildren will have no other choice but to accept that they are no longer the most intelligent or most powerful creatures on this planet. How to deal with that fact is a pretty big question. I think it's a little selfish to just automatically assume it's a bad thing. Think about it this way: If one day the machines will have conquered the universe and humanity is long gone, they will probably still remember us as their creators. Their gods, if you will. Isn't that an exceptional and great honor, to be remembered in such a way by a species that has the potential to civilise an entire galaxy or even more? That would make us truly immortal in this universe.

Without advanced AI that thinks for itself and reproduces itself and all that, one day a giant meteor will just hit earth, end all human life in the blink of an eye and that's that. Is that truly the better option?