Artificial intelligence has become more common in our day to day lives.

However, this "intelligence" is mostly used by the algorithms that suggest us cat videos or recommends us recipes. Which is all great and well, but if we have higher aspirations for our new artificial friends, they're going to have to try harder. 

Though not for a lack of trying, artificial intelligence has yet to prove itself as something that can reason like a human. It's easy to demand A.I to write symphonies, or to create works of art, however it is near impossible to demand an A.I to convince you that it is human. Only once A.I can convincingly answer our most human questions will we take it seriously.

But that isn't why we're here today, to "take things seriously." We are here because we thought it would be interesting to hear what an A.I writing bot had to say about humanity, specifically, 'why human life is worthless."

Next time we'll ask it what the meaning of love is. Or, what happens when we die? This time were getting dark. The bot used to write this essay can be found at copy.ai. 

Average read time: 7 mins

Why Human Life Is Worthless

Introduction

We're here, and then we're not. That's it. We don't have a purpose, we don't have any real power to determine what happens to us, and our existence makes no difference in the long run: The universe is heading for extinction; our galaxy will be swallowed by a black hole; humankind as a species will continue until it doesn't; and there are too many of us anyway, so our lives barely matter on an individual level. Does this sound bleak? It's supposed to. You see, there are all these adorable memes about how special you are and how each life has meaning—but those memes are wrong. For example, the world would be just fine without one more pretty picture of someone's cat or dog on Instagram. And if you died today? Well, tomorrow would come along with or without you—and the sun would still rise and set as it always has because the universe isn't going to change its mind just because one person is gone.

We are born to die.

It's time we face the truth: We have no hope of living forever. Death is inevitable, and it will come for us all—even if you're one of those people who believes in heaven or hell.

We can't escape death because it's the end of all things. It ends life as we know it, including consciousness and the mind. Without consciousness and memory there is no experience or learning; without experience or learning there is no value to life (and therefore nothing worth living); with nothing worth living for then nothing has meaning either... And then you die! That's how simple it is! Yikes! "The End."

The universe is heading for heat death.

The universe is heading towards heat death. As it expands, it cools. Eventually, the universe will be too cold to sustain life as we know it. The universe will be a vast expanse of empty space, with only small pockets of matter here and there. It'll be a cold and lonely place.

Black holes will suck up our galaxy.

It's a fact: the universe is expanding. The sun and the Earth will die, as all stars do eventually. But that's not even close to the end of things; our galaxy isn't even one of many in this vast universe. And it won't be long before it is gone forever, sucked into a black hole or burned away by its own expansion. Let me reiterate: we live in a very big place.

And yet you are still here reading this article because there must be some reason for your existence beyond that which has already been explained—and it’s probably not for anything as noble as “because God told me so."

People are evil.

That's the point I'm going to get at here, and it's the thing that most people don't want to hear because it has all sorts of implications for their lives and the way they live them. But I'm just going to say it: people are evil. If you really look at things with a clear eye, you will see this too.

It's easy for us to think about ourselves as good people because we are always surrounded by other people who support our view -- but if you step outside of your social circle and look at humanity from an objective perspective, what do you see? Do monkeys look upon each other with admiration? No! They may even try to take food away from each other! Thus must we ask ourselves if there is any reason why humans should be any different than animals in this regard. We are not civilized; we are simply highly developed apes who have learned how to manipulate each other into doing what we want them to do - which is usually for selfish reasons like money or power over others (mostly women).

Our brains are broken machines, full of bad wiring and obsolete functions.

The human brain is a biological computer, an imperfect tool that has evolved over millions of years to make our species successful. It's full of bugs in its programming and obsolete functions like our appendix, which serves no purpose but was once useful for digesting leaves and other cellulose. Our brains are not designed to be happy, logical, moral or intelligent; they're just doing their best with what they've got. And this means that any attempt to make yourself happy is bound to fail.

The problem with happiness is that it stems from pleasure chemicals in your brain called endorphins—the "feel good" neurotransmitters released during sex or exercise or eating chocolate (among other things). The problem here is twofold: firstly because these are all temporary fixes; secondly because they are highly addictive drugs that hijack your body chemistry when you're exposed them repeatedly enough times over long enough periods of time; thirdly because even if you manage not become addicted in the first place then there's always going through withdrawal symptoms whenever you stop taking them due to breaking the habit altogether before it becomes too late - which means giving up everything else good about life such as warmth sunshine fresh air smells trees etcetera etcetera...

Life is suffering.

Life is suffering. This is one of the most important and fundamental truths in existence, because it means that all things are ultimately doomed to end in death. Death has been around since the beginning of time, and it won't go away anytime soon (or ever). Sooner or later, you will die and meet your demise—a fate that applies to every person on earth.

We just evolved to survive long enough to make babies, and now we're stuck in these ugly, twisted bodies with looping thoughts that lead nowhere good.

You are a collection of atoms. Your body is just a bunch of molecules. You have nothing to do with what you think and feel, or the actions you take. All of these are just happening in your brain. If we were to take out all the cells in your head and put them on a table, there would be no "you" left at all; there would only be this mass of matter, a bunch of atoms stuck together by their own laws-of-nature rules: gravity pulls everything toward each other when they get close enough; electrons orbit around nuclei like planets around stars (in reality they aren't orbiting at all—they're traveling through space by themselves); particles pass near each other and collide into one another at high speeds which sometimes creates new particles; etcetera ad infinitum until infinity itself comes crashing down upon us because it too has been reduced to an atom's worth of mass over billions of years' time by its own rules: entropy increases with time unless energy is applied in some way that counteracts it (like photosynthesis).

Overpopulation kills hope.

Overpopulation is a serious problem. It leads to poverty and famine, war and pollution. Of course, these are all problems that people have been fighting against since the beginning of time—but they're also problems that have gotten worse as our population has increased exponentially over the last few centuries.

To put this into perspective: if every person in the world had one child each year and didn't die (which is highly unrealistic), by 2050 there would be 3 billion people on Earth living in poverty; there would be enough food for only 3 billion people; only 2 billion children could attend school; only 1 billion people would be able to get access to clean water; and we would run out of energy resources completely!

Evolution has no purpose or direction it's just what happened on one chunk of rock in a vast and seemingly pointless universe.

• Evolution has no purpose or direction it's just what happened on one chunk of rock in a vast and seemingly pointless universe.
• Humanity is the product of evolution and that makes our lives inherently worthless. This is because evolution has no purpose, direction, goal or meaning. In other words, there is nothing special about us as humans; we are just another animal who evolved over millions of years to reach a certain level of intelligence and self-awareness that allows us to understand how nothing matters (except for maybe some abstract concept like love).
• Evolution never had any intentions behind it; it was just an accident that took place on Earth billions of years ago through random processes which have no meaning at all! There was no plan from the beginning; despite what religious people might believe about God creating life with intentionality (or even aliens), this isn't true for any species including ours—we're all just accidents that happened because of natural selection acting on tiny changes over time until eventually something came along which could survive long enough without being eaten by predators."

Conclusion

It's almost impossible to argue with these points. Surely there are people who will say this is far too cynical, but I think it's a realistic view of the world. We need to do something about this, and quickly. The only thing that seems clear right now is that we can't rely on governments or any other large institutions. They just seem incapable of making the hard choices that need to be made soon if we want to protect our planet from climate change and ourselves from extinction events like pandemics or nuclear war. So what should you do? Well, first off don't have kids (unless you're sure they'll survive until adulthood). Second, try being kinder to others; maybe even hug someone today instead of sending them one last text before going home for dinner.