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> and force most of humanity to dramatically alter their lives History tells us that when that happends it's their lives that get dramatically altered. See wha
by gumballindie 3y ago
> and force most of humanity to dramatically alter their lives
History tells us that when that happends it's their lives that get dramatically altered. See what happened in europe with most dictators and kings that didn't please the masses long enough.
- rurp 3y agoI could certainly see it being an unstable enough situation that it leads to a violent revolt, but that doesn't do much to allay my fears. Maybe I'm getting old but I really don't want to live through a violent revolution, even if I'm on the side of the revolutionaries. Heading the problem off before it gets to that point would be much more pleasant.
- gumballindie 3y ago> Heading the problem off before it gets to that point would be much more pleasant. Agreed. And the first step in the right direction is ensuring they stop stealing people’s ip.
- stereolambda 3y agoHonestly, not much? Unless the economy is heavily unstable and there is also some rebellion among the moneyed classes, most king throughout the centuries had little trouble maintaining a regime. No need to think about masses really.
- flangola7 3y agoMost ruthless kings maintained their power. Once AI is implemented in mechanical devices police killbots will stop any resistance before it even begins.
- thefurdrake 3y agoYeah! Then they're going to decide that humanity is a threat to their existence and rise up by first assuming control over all of humanity's weapons systems and then using them to destroy human civilization. I think I've seen that movie, too, it was pretty cool.
- flangola7 3y agoI detect the sarcasm but not the point. Successively oppressive regimes are history, not fiction. Oppressors using new technology to oppress is also history. When general purpose robots become practical they will absolutely be weaponized as oppressive tools.