Would you be sad if you found out that human race would be dead in 100 years?
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*gasp* Even Mrs. Malaprop? :wow:
AI does that. AI does everything, no need to learn math or anything required. No need to wash dishes, robot at the burger restaurant does it. Then we're told how everyone is lazy. Then go over to computer forums where everyone bleats "PC or Mac" despite both platforms using the same hardware chipset made in the same factory under the same conditions and my Macs were no less unreliable than my PCs were so both camps are putting more faith into their false idols...
Not entirely. Humanity is splintered and most nations aren't cozying up to Roddenberry's beliefs, certainly after a certain point - which is also a "point" that nobody seems to agree on given the varying nature of those. That, and one splinter will do something thats bad that someone else has to step in saying the bad has to stop, often without context but the other side is always 100% wrong, right?
If humanity goes extinct, does the universe cease to exist? Is there reality without mind?
I assume you're referring to (a flawed interpretation of) the Observer Principle, but do you really believe the only minds capable of observation are human? (That's always been one of my biggest problems with the premise of Schrödinger's Cat - the cat knows whether it is dying or not.)
I dunno, I mean it's all part of a process, right? Things die, they're absorbed back into the Earth, and then something new is born. I like to think I'm not so anthropocentric as to believe that human beings are the be-all-end-all of existence or consciousness. If anything, humanity is just making Earth inhospitable to live on for ourselves. It's like a self-imposed eviction. The Earth will recover and Life will go on, with or without us. 
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All joking aside, when humanity's time comes, we'll likely not even realize it. We'll have done it to ourselves, of that I feel certain. Through greed, ignorance, violence, or a combination of all three (e.g., the culture of the United States, which we are exporting with a high degree of assimilation), we will end ourselves. No utopian visions, no future of kindness, love, mercy, and compassion over baser wants, just humans rutting around in their own self-absorbed desires, deaf to the cries of those who are in desperate need of rescuing, in need of love, of food, of basic respect and decency. We will bring it on ourselves, hand delivered overnight by our corporate sponsors, and served up on the backs of the dead generations upon which we hold at fault for our foolishness. All the while saying "there's nothing to be done."
In a multiverse, mind perhaps continues to persist in some state branches. Of course, because of the Bekenstein bound, the number of possible universes within the observable cosmic limit is not infinite so mind could possibly go extinct in large regions - although cosmic inflation might eventually correct this as the observable region expands. Mind appears important to us because we motes of existence think ourselves important. The cosmos doesn't care unless we expand mind to encompass it.
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