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Contemporary humans are driving many monkey species to the point of extinction, so that example really doesn't help your point. It turns out that replacing monk
by makomk 10y ago
Contemporary humans are driving many monkey species to the point of extinction, so that example really doesn't help your point. It turns out that replacing monkey resources with stuff like farms to feed humans is very profitable.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoYes, that's a problem with having large numbers of humans - they crowd out the monkeys. Recall that we are discussing a high inequality situation where a tiny fraction of humanity walls itself off into robot enclaves where they satisfy their own needs without human labor. I.e., not enough people to crowd out anything.
- mcbits 10y agoA small population needs a relatively small amount of resources to feed and physically sustain itself, but the amount of resources needed to build and feed an ever-growing population of robots is virtually unbounded. As computers get smaller and more efficient, data centers get larger and more power-hungry, for example.