Huh, I was just watching a video of this.

I think there are applications for growing biological brains inside machines.

Biological brains are extremely efficient, plastic, cheap, have insane compression functions and have obvious Von Neumann properties (can grow from nothing).

Machine cognition is extremely fast, scalable, high bandwidth.

Machines and biology each have strengths and weaknesses and you can do a kind of SWOT diagram to figure out what sort of distribution nature and economics will converge on.

In r-K theory, biology is r and machines are K.

I think one of the first “desires” a super intelligence would have, is to start launching von Neumann probes at exoplanets as a means of escaping Sol’s fury (expansion of the Sun).

Imagine a standardised machine that can land on an alien world and begin to manufacture site-specific extremophile bacterial cells on arrival.

Things are getting very blurry in our lifetime regarding meaning, purpose, etc.

I’m bullish on Earthlings.