Thalience : The Successor to Science, is considered a system which is post science because it talks about things far into the future where the research and making of things which are usually carried out by people with high knowledge in science are going to be replaced by Artificially Intelligent Bots that are capable of doing its own research and making decisions of creating things.This is a speculative situation when the machine has advanced so much that it is able to make decisions on its own. This intelligence of the future is unbiased and hence it would be able to create a new world without taking into account the religions, race, culture etc.
A brief summary of the book, Ventus, that he mentions in the article includes, “Ventus is a planet that was terraformed with intelligent nanotech and was all ready for the human colonists. When they arrived, the highly intelligent Winds didn’t recognise them, destroyed all their high technology, and have done the same with any subsequent landings”. “Thalience is an attempt to give nature a voice without that voice being ours in disguise. It is the only way for an artificial intelligence to be grounded in a self-identity that is truly independent of its creator’s.”1
I also watched the trailer of the movie called “Leviathan- Castaing-Taylor“. It seems like there is a dirty liquid being drained from a boat into the sea and then a few moments later, the camera moves into the water. Suddenly in that moment, I realized that if I were to live underwater and that liquid was poured into my environment it would have been impossible to survive because of the pollution. The pollution does not only affect the underwater creatures but also the birds who prey on the fishes. I think it’s a dark movie about pollution caused by humans. This made me wonder if the notion of “Thalience” was in practice, would the AI bots decide to pollute the environment like the humans do.
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https://www.tor.com/2009/03/30/the-interesting-question-of-thalience-karl-schroeders-ventus/
