You made most of my waking life miserable and now you have guts to ask me to push your interests forward by labeling it "force for good" and ask me to do value-searching to find my inner Stockholm-syndrome. Go f*ck yourself.
Honestly, as a third-world citizen, I just can't fathom why anyone here would give a shit about ozone layer. We are extremely dismissive of those issues here because we care about the future of humanity and Earth a lot less that first-world populace. We have no incentive to protect the Earth so that children of first-worlders can live healthily in 2050 whenever.
You fucked us all up with colonialism and whatnot, and you still keep exploiting us like mad (not hyperbole - I get to see it). I guess payback will be sweet.
Most HNer are actually dumb enough (or "scientific" as they like to call it) to believe that material universe exists in some vacuum with all its unbreakable laws, that it came into existence from nothingness, and believe that their lack of ability to explain what consciousness is is just a mere case of not-enough-science-yet.
I'm not saying be religious but being staunch atheist and materialist is really no better than being bigoted God-worshipper. Don't block yourself from playing with your own hypothesis-space just because it's full of "unscientific" things.
Singularity of stupidity is already here. I mean, you have to be pretty stupid to take something as absurd and sci-fi nerd bs like "singularity" seriously.
Life would extinguish itself if it was the force of problem-solving, because that would ultimately solve all the problems.
I don't know how can you create a problem-solving force from an environment where none exists. You can only create forces of chaos from such an environment.
Life didn't start out because it had the problem of not being a thing.
Can it still be considered "problem-solving" when the so-called "problems" are only so in the context of animal survival and breeding from the perspective of animal consciousness? Life just randomly grows and takes on random shapes, it's not a force of problem-solving.
No, they don't solve problems, it's just natural selection in an environment with lots of randomness.
Life didn't even start out by solving problems, as I said: random order from chaos. Life doesn't care about solving problems, it's just collection of random matter.
Given enough random matter, you are destined to get some with odd properties in right conditions that can also spiral out of control to create something like a human.
Life doesn't solve "problems" though - it just creates random order from chaos.
What kind of problems do you even have in mind? What would you even solve if we could somehow understand or control these bigger forces of organization?
I agree with the OP, we are not replacing silicon with DNA or anything - this article is just another "tech" article that shouldn't exist.