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We all retire and let the computers run the economy for us, and devote our lives to the pursuit of happiness, art, love and other non-practical endeavours. And
by swombat 16y ago
We all retire and let the computers run the economy for us, and devote our lives to the pursuit of happiness, art, love and other non-practical endeavours.
And when the computers start caring about art too, they'll join us, no doubt.
- nickpinkston 16y agoI really hope your vision comes true - I spend too much time thinking that computers are actually going to end-up as the Romans - we'll be their slaves... (pets?)
- johngalt 16y ago'Slaves' would imply that we would have some useful value.
- nickpinkston 16y agoYea, I feel like "pet" is probably the nicest thing we could be - that or they may have human sex fetishes ;-)
- swombat 16y agoMind you, there's another alternative, even more depressing than the one you mention: 90% of the human population finds it impossible to transition to a life of plenty, where there's nothing to do other than enjoy yourself and/or pursue abstract notions, and so a great world war emerges, destroying everything that we've spent a million years of evolution to achieve, and ending humanity's brief reign on this planet.