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Replication of the development of mathematics by human civilization is a task for an artificial hyperintelligence.

What will anyone do? What will anyone feel their purpose would be? Can't all have the same one, either.

What will the planet 'need' homo sapiens for (arguably it never needed homo sapiens at all)?

Would anyone's time or life really have significant value?

I didn't mean that as "we need hyper-intelligence." I mean that going all the way from nothing to singular, dual, plural grammatical numbers attached to particular nouns to abstract one, two, three, many to zero, one, two, three... to rationals to... is a very long way.

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