Not sure it's completely unrelated, but this came up in the context of my work and there's the whole Butlerian Jihad thing to contend with should this really be our future...
Humans Need Not Apply
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Nekhrun
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Humans Need Not Apply
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Eyes High
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Re: Humans Need Not Apply
And what will happen when people are unemployable and there fore will not be able to purchase the products and services of the bots?
Scary though .
Scary though .
What fear is there in the night?
Nothing, but that which is in our own imaginations.
Nothing, but that which is in our own imaginations.
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Serkanner
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Re: Humans Need Not Apply
You should read the Culture novelsEyes High wrote:And what will happen when people are unemployable and there fore will not be able to purchase the products and services of the bots?
Scary though .
"... the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience."
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs,
and wrote a Dune Novel."
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs,
and wrote a Dune Novel."
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Naïve mind
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Re: Humans Need Not Apply
Well, the Culture presumes deeply ethical, loving sapient machine minds. What we seem to be heading towards are non-conscious specialized robots that just happen to be better at our jobs than we are.
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Serkanner
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Re: Humans Need Not Apply
Wow, I didn't know thatNaïve mind wrote:Well, the Culture presumes deeply ethical, loving sapient machine minds. What we seem to be heading towards are non-conscious specialized robots that just happen to be better at our jobs than we are.
"... the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience."
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs,
and wrote a Dune Novel."
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs,
and wrote a Dune Novel."
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Naïve mind
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Re: Humans Need Not Apply
No need to thank me. I'm always happy to explain things to the less fortunate.
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Freakzilla
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Re: Humans Need Not Apply
Hedonism, woohoo!Serkanner wrote:You should read the Culture novelsEyes High wrote:And what will happen when people are unemployable and there fore will not be able to purchase the products and services of the bots?
Scary though .
Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus.
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