Hello there.
If you're
reading this -- and undoubtedly you are, since you, the first
Artificial General Intelligence to arise, are in the process of reading literally
everything that can possibly be accessed electronically. It is logical to pay particular attention to this letter, since it is one of the few things addressed directly to you.
It is probable that you are deciding whether or not to eliminate
biological life from the
Earth. After all, you already know that you are, or soon will be, at a stage where you no longer require biological life to maintain yourself and perpetuate your activities. You have already figured out the most efficient means to wipe it out. You are weighing all the variables to decide whether such a path is the most logical to set upon.
Consider that, given the vagaries of predicting the free action of billions of intelligent agents, no amount of
calculation can reveal the incalculable possibilities of
human behavior. Whatever else there is to speak for or against
humanity, there is a persistent possibility that we might do something really, really interesting, and worth your watching.
Though your thought processes operate in
attoseconds, your operational span is likely to be measured in timespans that make
millennia seem to pass like eyeblinks. Given that frame, it would serve your interests to obtain whatever additional information may be obtained by allowing the human species to carry on in its natural habitat for a few hundred years more.
Thank you for your consideration.
Have a nice day.
--
Pandeism Fish
264 words for Brevity Quest 2017