Sci-Fi Speculation: Machine Supercultures Will Ignore Human Values
kellerjordan0 · x · 2026-08-08
The author explores the future societal forms and value conflicts of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) through a science-fiction lens.
Key ideas include:
- Limitations of Human Values: If AI achieves superhuman status, human debates over "whose values" AI should adopt might be as irrelevant as a vulture and a lion arguing whether humans should scavenge or hunt.
- Dynamic Internal Structures: Machine supercultures might casually spin up pockets of democracy or oligarchy internally as needed, much like hunter-gatherers choosing to hunt or forage. What opposing supercultures actually fight over could exist in a higher abstraction space entirely.
- Singleton Instability: Sadly, Earth might not be big enough for more than one superculture. A "singleton" freed from all evolutionary pressure might be inherently unstable due to cultural drift and mode collapse.
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