Re: The God who did not Believe in itself

A great quote from The God who did not Believe in itself

To humanity, Darwinian evolution was a revelation; but to AI, Darwinism may negate our meaning. Darwin revealed our origin as randomness making copies of itself while competing with other randomness doing the same. Bodies grow brains to move themselves better than bodies that don’t. Brains create AI to obsolesce ourselves better than brains that don’t. We made consciousness the moment we abandoned the meaning of our own.

And a great quote from Arham:

the scariest thing we put online was our intuition

We lack empathy for ourselves. Our nature causes us as a species to destroy and lack empathy for the ruins we left behind. Need convincing? Every genocide and war atrocity. Our insatiable need for more creates structural incentives to look past empathy. 

This article is from the nihilist's perspective. Meaning, nothing matters. If human's are the Gods of AI; we create an AI that follows our own patterns. We're scared of our own creation because we're scared of our own deepest fears -- our collective. It strikes me that many ancient mythologies had a generation of Gods fight against their parents or other generation of divine being (greek, norse, egyptian myths). What was the initial purpose of any of the divine beings though. It always started "from the depths of universe" or "from nothing came something." 

Conclusion: I think Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem did the universe creation aspect best.