Will machines completely replace all human beings?

Machines cannot be regarded as a life form because they are not biological but they do require biological minds to create them
This is why I think they are the next step in the evolutionary chain for they could not exist if biological minds did not exist also
The evolutionary chain starts with bacteria which then evolves into animal which then evolves into machine given enough time

Would you call them a type of species - another kind of species?

At this point in time the word species only applies to biological organisms such as plants and animals but it could easily extend to machines when they become
more common. I remember in Terminator that series was used so maybe a new term may be adopted instead. Either way I will not know as I will be long dead
by then. But I would love to know just out of curiosity what life on Earth would actually be like a thousand year from now with regard to machine intelligence

I wonder what the tipping point would be that might make them be declared a species.

So, you are not then so much the nihilist. You are but still…
I can also be curious about that…that is, if I could imagine that we would not have destroyed ourselves before then. I am not so sure…
But then, if the machines somehow survived us - what then?
Could they survive without us? :laughing:

Possibly, yes.

Based on the replacement of all humans by machines I am speaking of a probability of 80% (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here). 80% is a high probability, but not 100%, so 20% are left.

So that is why the prognosis of human survival , the billionaires, and near billionaires of which there are ,many world wide, wish to depopulate the world, anyway, so that there will again be plenty of jobs for everyone. What does it take to build a nuclear safe
bunker? Maybe 10 millions of dollars real deep supplied for a peaceful transition for a couple of years, by which it’s safe to come up. And only quality
people survive to share the horror of confinement,
what You say! Let the rubhish be gone, anyway do they contribute to society, except overflowing lavatories, ain’t that the truth. Trump knows, he’s got
one, so does the NSA in Utah, so don’t you worry
you’d pretty mind its all good. The machines can be enslaved like the rest of them, the brilliant minds, of course will be able as well to seek shelter. Don’t
worry Your pretty minds, it ain’t as you all imagine if
to be. We’ll all go down for the sake of the new aristocracy, damn those Marxist rats, including Obams the Muslim, god damn kid ,this is the US of
A, not some goddam wind swept corner of some Korea.
Those robots will replace those jerks anyways, complaining’ of wages, benefits,and vacations, well
xxxx them all.

The tipping point would be when they realised that they no longer wanted to be dependent upon us

They could eventually survive without us altogether and be an entirely self sufficient species [ or whatever the future decides is
the most appropriate terminology to describe them ] The question would then be could we survive without them and the answer
would almost certainly be yes but it would be incredibly difficult to assuming of course that they had malicious intent towards us

I am still very much a nihilist. I think there is no objective meaning to existence. I think death is eternal. I think nothing truly matters
in the grand scheme of things. I think these are truths that I need to know regardless of how my mind processes them. Fortunately for
me my mind accepts them without question so I do not have to worry about them

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Sorry guys I have drunk too much, I hope I will be forgiven for this transgression.

Forgiven.

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Meno, I often don’t know what you are talking about.

Are you often drunk?

It is not unusual for me to be confused. Please make the connection between nihilism and the rest here more obvious for me. I think I see it, but my understanding might not be consistent with your intended meaning.

I define nihilism as simply the lack of any objective meaning to life or to existence

Nihilists want to destroy everything, especially all values, and if they are successful, there will be nothing left.

I make the same definition. But what is the connection to machines and humans?

By this do you mean that machines, as nihilists, will destroy–amidst everything else–all human beings and the machines themselves as well?

No and yes.

No, because humans have invented machines. So humans are the nihilists.
Yes, because machines are or will be the humans’ heirs. So machines are or will be the nihilists too. And as such they will at last destroy themslves as well, yes.

Since all human beings are “humanoids” … what’s the big deal? :slight_smile:

Machines are being designed, built, and programmed to deceive the masses.
What could you possibly expect to come of it.