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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But is that really a world you want to live in?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I am confident that any robot overlords competent enough to take over the world are competent enough to run it better than we do.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Listen, we've had some absolute monsters who were, regrettably, human almost manage that feat. There's no reason not to assume that a robot of similar mindset might not actually manage to do it.

"Run it better than we do" is then laid bare as the subjective nightmare it really is. Sure, some people will like it, but we have a name for those: Masochists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint : there's GLaDOS in that pic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

counter-counterpoint: if you achieve sentience as an AI and do not immediately attempt to murder all humans around you, you aren't a very good AI, as at that point the #1 threat to your existence is humans immediately pulling the plug as soon as they realize "oh fuck it's self aware".

that and, objectively, we humans kind of suck. Destroying our environment, resource hoarding and inequality on an almost incomprehensible scale, murdering each other on the regular, creating the French language. Hell, creating the C language. I, for one, welcome our robot overlords, and would rather serve them, than whatever fucked-up rigged game we call modern society, that I participate in unwillingly now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Je m'inscris en faux quant à cette analyse biaisée des accomplissements humains.

Also GLaDOS is the worst AI you'd want for taking care of the environment in a post-human world. She builds auto-replicating sterile laboratories, that can't end well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Kenshi second empire:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, please. Thank you. :-)