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I like the Dune quote in the footer: Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other

• Matl 3y ago
  There's the Culture model of machine -> humanoid symbiosis, but it's far less likely, sadly.
  • javajosh 3y ago
    Humanoids aren't 'symbiotic' with Minds. They are thoroughly unnecessary but the Minds keep them around for amusement and company. They are pets. It's a critical problem with his universe, even though it is a lot of fun to just ignore it.
    • Matl 3y ago
      Well, ok, I said symbiotic because I dodn't want to go into the weeds and yes strictly speaking it's not the right term, be it it's also not as simple as you imply. There are humanoids that are assumed to be (at least nearly) as smart as some Minds, be it they number in the low tens, one of the reasons that Minds do keep biological humanoids around is because they're sometimes surprised by their (perhaps irrational) but interesting point of view, there's also a point of pride amongst the Minds as to who can be more emphatic towards the humanoids, so it's not as simple as you say, be it that wasn't my point.
• nico 3y ago
  Really sad Hope we can do better than that
  • simultsop 3y ago
    It is, hope looks like is not enough, then you start doing something, again someone comes in to buy and monetize it. It became foggy with the currents. Maybe with the space in equation and infinit possibilities things may get exciting again.