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> Finally, I think Minds need humans... all the minds that had no humans with them (that I remember, at least) where the "unstable", eccentric or downright cra
by KirillPanov 3y ago
> Finally, I think Minds need humans... all the minds that had no humans with them (that I remember, at least) where the "unstable", eccentric or downright crazy.
Well okay; the humans aren't pets, they're emotional support animals. Not a huge improvement though.
- otikik 3y agoYou might have missed my last paragraph. I think family is a better metaphor. Families do provide emotional support as well.
- KirillPanov 3y agoNo, I think it's a terrible metaphor. The Minds have no reason to treat humans well. Humans have a powerful evolutionary motivation to treat their kin well.
- pixl97 3y agoWhy does this idea bother humans us so much? It troubles us so much that something could be much smarter than us. That something is stronger than us is barely a consideration these days after we've automated nearly everything, yet we've still not transcended the idea that minds far greater than ours can and will be created.
- KirillPanov 3y ago> Why does this idea bother humans us so much? I dunno; it doesn't bother me at all. What bothers me is pretending that the Culture is humanity's. Or that humans are in any way relevant to the whole plotline. It's like if somebody rewrote all the great works of literature from the perspectives of the protagonists' dogs, and then threw away the originals, and pretended that this was somehow a useful perspective. That would bother me.