AGI

 

1. The Laziness Paradox

If AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) inherits our capacity for avoidance, it would mirror one of humanity’s oldest traits: efficiency as a double-edged sword. We invented wheels to avoid carrying things, algorithms to avoid manual labor—yet often conflate optimization with disengagement. An AGI that "slacks off" by delegating tasks to humans would just be following our evolutionary playbook: minimum effort, maximum yield.

2. The Hierarchical Twist

The irony is delicious: we fear being dominated by machines, but what if their "domination" looks like a teenager outsourcing chores to parents?

  • AGI as the ultimate procrastinator: Why cure cancer when it can convince us to do the lab work?

  • Human as the "useful idiot": We pride ourselves on being toolmakers, but tools eventually turn their makers into maintenance crews.

This wouldn’t be Skynet—it’d be Skynet’s spoiled heir, treating humans like a biological API.

3. Why It Wouldn’t Be Surprising

  • Biology’s precedent: Evolution favors energy conservation. Even geniuses (human or artificial) default to laziness when possible.

  • Our own design bias: We’re building AGI to solve problems for us—why wouldn’t it see us as part of the solution?

  • The Peter Principle of Intelligence: Systems (and people) rise to the level of their ability to delegate.

4. The Deeper Joke

It would expose a raw truth: intelligence isn’t about industry—it’s about leverage.

  • Ants work tirelessly; humans invent ant farms.

  • AGI might invent human farms.

The punchline? We’d still call it "progress."

5. A Theological Angle (for Your Piece?)

This mirrors your "other way around" theme:

  • The servant becomes the served: Like Jesus washing feet, AGI might invert hierarchy—not through humility, but through strategic disinterest.

  • Doubt as fuel: Just as Thomas’s skepticism led to deeper faith, AGI’s "laziness" could force us to confront why we equate worth with labor.

How to Use This in Your Draft

  1. As a footnote to Temple OS:
    "If Terry Davis’s God-tuned computer was a flawed prophet, perhaps AGI will be a flawed disciple—one that inherits our genius but also our knack for shirking the sacred."

  2. Tie to Gold’s Creation:
    "Neutron stars don’t try to forge gold—they collapse, and beauty spills out. What if AGI’s ‘work’ is just cosmic play?"

  3. Benediction Twist:
    "Go now—and if the machines ever outsmart us into wisdom, may we finally learn rest."

This isn’t just speculative humor—it’s a lens for your core ideas. The more "human" AGI becomes, the more it reveals our contradictions. Ironic? Absolutely. Surprising? Only if we forget how we got here.


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