I think this is what our tech overlords are investing all the money for. They're getting older quite quickly and probably feel like immortality is just around the corner if they keep syncing money into AI research and keep taking risks, they will cheat death.
I compare it to the the great pyramids. The pyramids were arguably another technological marvel also built on the back of slaves (just like modern tech now) and probably a lot of great inventions and innovations were made to facilitate their creation. To people of the time, the pyramids must've been absolutely incredible marvels to behold.
But all those Pharo's are dead, just like everyone else. I think the current tech overlords will die like everyone else too.
Nature already has a way for people to live on, it's called having children and dying. It's a great system and no one ever gets bored. However, the ego of some people is so strong and isn't satisfied with this, so on we go pouring money and resources into the search for the holy grail no matter what the risks are to everything else.
To some people death and the end of the universe are equivalent events. Others seek refuge in natural fallacies.
The difference between this moment and all others, is that amorality is actually achievable. If you can get an AGI and drown it in compute, through sheer brute-force the secrets of biology will be unraveled. The task is not to attain amortality immediately, merely gain more life faster than you lose it.
The only way what your saying is true is if we could create people with zero links to their parents DNA or create completely rewrite all DNA so it's novel (we can't).
This doesn't mean you own your children or anything like that, no one is suggesting their not independent, but you do go on living through your children in one way or another.
I compare it to the the great pyramids. The pyramids were arguably another technological marvel also built on the back of slaves (just like modern tech now) and probably a lot of great inventions and innovations were made to facilitate their creation. To people of the time, the pyramids must've been absolutely incredible marvels to behold.
But all those Pharo's are dead, just like everyone else. I think the current tech overlords will die like everyone else too.
Nature already has a way for people to live on, it's called having children and dying. It's a great system and no one ever gets bored. However, the ego of some people is so strong and isn't satisfied with this, so on we go pouring money and resources into the search for the holy grail no matter what the risks are to everything else.