I think the endgame for society will be when we evolve beyond the bounds of our universe. I believe in the concept of infinity and a reality, so I’m sure there will always exists some form of community in one way or another. Possibly as a type 7 being on the Kardashev scale.

The legal department forbade them from suggesting anyone should actually eat it. /s

Right so in Stark Trek they've reached a post-scarcity, utopian society where one of three things happen to future humanity.

1. They hop on a starship and colonize a planet so they can do honest work as pioneers, working relatively primitively is fulfilling and enriches their lives.

2. They hop on a starship and explore a vast universe, discovering things and making technological breakthroughs in travel, robotics, holographics, artificial intelligence. Invention for the betterment of all and invention for the sake of invention.

3. They dedicate themselves to the arts. Poetry, painting, sculptures and so on. Again, to enrich their lives.

I’m not sure I buy that. There is no reason machines can’t deal with this stuff, it’s purely mechanistic. There’s nothing about a septic system maintenance that requires philosophy of mind.

I think they will keep a human zoo. Maybe its hopium that our species wont go completely extinct.

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It's so artificial it's VEGAN! So not cheesecake at all. Thats what people need, more ultraprocessed foods...

Good answer.

Given how much creative energy sci fi has put into this question, there’s probably a lot of material available to speak to this.

Dan Simmons’ Hyperion cycle addresses this extensively as well, and Peter F Hamilton’s Void series offers another take.

These authors all really dig into what we could do with AI as powerful tools, and examines what might happen if they analyze humanity and decide we’re not their kind of people.

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Finally, we're taking a tiny baby step towards a Star Trek future.

They're gonna kill us to save the environment. Honestly, I agree that's the best solution to the biggest problems facing all life on Earth. We all got it comin'.

I would recommend starting with the book "The Player of Games", because it gives the clearest description of what The Culture is actually like and it's a relatively short but fun read. (Also you can find a free PDF of it easily)

Why would we still have septic systems? It’s wasteful and a vector for disease.

Are you really sure about that?

Are you super certain that our intellectual procedures are really above of what even 200 further years or AI advancement can achieve?

In my question, I didn't specify a timeline, because I have no idea of one. But however long it takes for AI to achieve the impossible, that's where I want you to go. :)

No, never heard of it!
Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely check it out, my friend :)

Nano bots programmed to eat shit and other blockage would remove the need for humans to “un-shit” septic systems.

There will always be jobs for someone who isn't afraid to get dirty. There will never be a robot that can un-shit a septic system.

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Have you ever read The Culture series by Ian M. Banks?

If you like sci fi give it a read, there's some eye-opening ideas there about what the endgame for society with highly advanced AI will be.

Advanced AI will be able to do almost anything that humans don't want to do and do it much better than humans, so this will usher in an advanced post-scarcity age which allows for much less restrictive legal and societal structures.

Yeah definitely. It's best to remember its just a tool. Not the end all of everything.

"Solar, according to the IPCC report, can deliver more emission cuts than any other technology by 2030, when the world needs to have cut its emissions by at least half if it is to have any chance of capping average global warming at 1.5°C. Solar and wind together offer nearly ten times the emission cut potential than nuclear, and 20 times that of carbon capture."

"honey, why are you putting on the hazmat suit and grabbing your sprayer?"

"I got serious debugging to do!"

Mostly not like that. an AI like chatGPT isn't a guy who reads manuals then learns from them and then can answer questions. So training it on the manuals wouldn't have a lot of responses past what a search of the documents would do, but worse.

What it really would need is to train on like, message boards where people answered those questions again and again, until it could predict what answer goes with what sort of question.

(but also, a major flaw in this sort of statistical language generation is they generate sentences and don't really know what anything is. So if you asked the minimum width of some cable or something it would do a great job creating an answer that LOOKED like an answer with some numbers in it, but wouldn't necessarily be anything real. ChatGPT is real bad on like, if you ask for a phone number it'll create a phone looking number that is just random numbers, because that gives a sentence that looks correct)

Cleaning that thing should be a piece of cake, wake me up when self cleaning ones become a thing