Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoThats assuming that there won’t be an end to all creative output on this planet in the next million years.
Anything past 1000 years from now is beyond understanding, IMO.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think the post-human-creativity epoch is further down the road, our species has this habit of doing the same things over and over, so even in a world of technological miracles and Gods in bottles, we will still have plenty of poor communities, purists, “normal” people doing things the way their parents did for generations, working alongside mechanical wonders and partially submerged in some kind of information landscape we can barely imagine.
If we do stay on this current course, we will eventually be easily outpaced by AI, likely much further away than the tech cultists and AI-bros want to believe but it is inevitable at this pace. I personally think it will be further away than a thousand years, our species is a very slow-turning boat. It’s very possible that some segment of the population will in fact find some way to merge with machines in a way that lets them interact with larger systems and expand their consciousness in some way, which might be the only way we could ever say with even a little confidence that there is conscious, human creativity still in the universe, but like with the machine-born ideas and creations, they will be ideas and creations that will probably be outside of a normal human’s capability to understand or even perceive.