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ken taylor's avatar

In 1988, Hans Moravec wrote Mind Children that suggested it would be desirable if humans would go extinct and that a machine intelligence would be preferable.

Science fiction writers had long conceived of its possibility, but Moravec is the first one to write it would be desirable.

Of course there is a move to do so now by many technocrats.

I wonder though why these same technocrats who try to bribe away human beings because I seriously doubt these same technocrats will have anyone to bribe. Falling into bribery, they fail to exist if machines replace humans . They are not john gault, and they can't run away and survive, because no John gault ever could.

That's always been the boss-problem as I see it; they need humans to do the work for them because they can't do it for themselves. They need others to dress them, cook for them, etc.

And certainly machine could be built to serve.

But the challenge in replacing humans who might have needs is more valuable to them because machines who can think for themselves will not be as likely to be fooled into granting therm the superiority there inferiority demands.

They don't understand human intelligence because they think they are more intelligent and because of this lack of understanding, they are the stupidest among us because there wealth dwindles with no humans to want their products and there power dwindles with no one to be powerful over which is what they most crave.

Great article, but I hope you're wrong

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SLK's avatar

Superbly put and so true!! Doomed is humanity no question about it.

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