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Lucy, evilness and super intelligence


Spoilers for Lucy, the film
I believe evilness and super intelligence is very unlikely to go hand in hand. A super intelligent being would be more like Lucy, benevolent.

For example, we are scared an advanced alien civilisation might come and enslave us, but when you look at our own journey through history, we are slowly becoming better beings.

Excuse my English please, not a native speaker.

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They wouldn't necessarily go hand in hand no but that would depend on the morals of the being. In job's case he obviously starts the film as being a mentally challenged person who is abused and talked down to by many you'd think. A mistake we often make is that these people with intellectual deficiencies lack regular emotions. They certainly do though and are cognizant of whats happening most of the time. I think jobs had a lot of pent up frustration and when he gained intelligence and strength he wanted to get even.

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There is a connection (correlation) between high intelligence and lack of empathy, not evilness. A lack of empathy is like indifference, rather than the supposition of it being sinister. We can only hope that a super-intelligent being would want to support the natural order of the Universe by maintaining order instead of chaos (the natural order is neither good nor evil).

The meaning of life is to seek/maximize/sustain knowledge, order, and pleasure and avoid/minimize/stop ignorance, chaos, and pain in the most efficient ways possible to augment nature's evolution. In other words, to nurture nature.

The ancestors of Homo Sapiens (Homo Erectus, Neanderthalensis, Habilis, etc) had basic survival instincts and lived in harmony with nature. They were not capable of atrocities such as systematic oppression, fascism, or global thermonuclear war. I'd have to say we have been slowly becoming worse BUT we have the potential to become better than we have ever been in history (extremely improbable, but still possible).


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There is a correlation between high intelligence and lack of empathy


That is a thought provoking comment and when I think about it, it is very difficult to disagree.

We can only hope that a super-intelligent being would want to support the natural order of the Universe by maintaining order instead of chaos (the natural order is neither good nor evil).


This comment justifies the highly criticised ineffectiveness of God (not that I believe in him/her) in the face of mass scale tragedies.

Excuse my English please, not a native speaker.

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