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I once was thinking that if intelligent machines surpassed human intelligence, the end game would be human intelligence would atrophy but the machines would con

by verbify 10mo ago

I once was thinking that if intelligent machines surpassed human intelligence, the end game would be human intelligence would atrophy but the machines would continue to serve us. Then I had a humorous thought - what if this already happened, i.e. cats were superintelligent, invented humans to serve them and then they had no need for their own intelligence.

colordrops 10mo ago
This is sort of the story of The Time Machine.
nakedneuron 10mo ago
This is brilliant. So, if machines will be decent servants to the cats, will humans get x-ed out of the equation?
- peanball 10mo ago
  A topic of the “Three Robots” episode of Death Love & Robots, kind of. Sorry for the fandom link. https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Robots#:~:text=On%20the%20way,extend%20their%20vacation%22. https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Robots#:~:text...
gradus_ad 10mo ago
It's funny to think that no matter how our technology develops, cats will be right there along for the ride, completely ignorant of it all. It's humorously comforting to think of an interstellar civilization powered by fusion and AGI serving cats just as they're served now. Scratching posts on starships seems to be inevitable.
- b112 10mo ago
  This seems like a book. Humans extinct for a billion years, AGI and robots tasked to feed and "take care of the cats". I imagine entire cities, houses built, all empty save cat and humanform robot.
  - gmueckl 10mo ago
    I would recommend the two episodes "Three Robots" and "Three Robots: Exit Strategies" from the anthology series Love, Death and Robots if you like this kind of humor.
  - xingped 10mo ago
    This was a minor plot point in that one black mirror episode with the robots on a tourism trip to Earth, lol
    - shawn_w 10mo ago
      You mean Love, Death and Robots?
      - xingped 10mo ago
        I'm sorry, yes, you're right. I misremembered which series I was thinking about.
  - marcher 10mo ago
    In the puzzle game series The Talos Principle, intelligent robots (who were made to outlive humanity after a species-ending global pandemic) seem to have the exact same kind of affinity for caring for cats that humans do. It's actually really sweet and cute.
  - cfraenkel 10mo ago
    "There will come soft rains" Ray Bradbury
  - deleted 10mo ago
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  - jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
    You might like the game Stray. Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJawWyRUOBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJawWyRUOBM It's about a cat that lives in a city of robots long after humans are extinct.
- jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
  The domestication of cats happened because of the invention of farming. If you store grain in a granary, it attracts a lot of insects, rodents, etc. Cats that could tolerate getting close to human settlements found a good food source. And humans like this, because the cats protect the grain without eating it. So you can see why ancient agrarian societies like the Egyptians held cats in high esteem. And despite only having a few thousand years to adapt to each other, ends up cats and humans can understand each other and form emotional bonds pretty easily. I imagine we'll see cats on spaceships of the future just like they were the norm on ships in the age of sail.
taneq 10mo ago
Maybe the cats were themselves invented by mice?
nervousvarun 10mo ago
Obligatory Banks Culture universe reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series Basically when the "minds" are benevolent deities all scenarios are possible including this one. We can spend our time with cats, we can even turn into cats...as he writes about "Changers" who genetically alter themselves or shift species at whim. And as always if someone acts up and violates the Golden Rule they get a slap drone: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone
cryptonector 10mo ago
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m463 10mo ago
a chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.

by verbify 10mo ago

colordrops 10mo ago

This is sort of the story of The Time Machine.

nakedneuron 10mo ago

This is brilliant. So, if machines will be decent servants to the cats, will humans get x-ed out of the equation?

peanball 10mo ago
A topic of the “Three Robots” episode of Death Love & Robots, kind of. Sorry for the fandom link. https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Robots#:~:text=On%20the%20way,extend%20their%20vacation%22. https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Robots#:~:text...

gradus_ad 10mo ago

It's funny to think that no matter how our technology develops, cats will be right there along for the ride, completely ignorant of it all. It's humorously comforting to think of an interstellar civilization powered by fusion and AGI serving cats just as they're served now. Scratching posts on starships seems to be inevitable.

b112 10mo ago
This seems like a book. Humans extinct for a billion years, AGI and robots tasked to feed and "take care of the cats". I imagine entire cities, houses built, all empty save cat and humanform robot.
- gmueckl 10mo ago
  I would recommend the two episodes "Three Robots" and "Three Robots: Exit Strategies" from the anthology series Love, Death and Robots if you like this kind of humor.
- xingped 10mo ago
  This was a minor plot point in that one black mirror episode with the robots on a tourism trip to Earth, lol
  - shawn_w 10mo ago
    You mean Love, Death and Robots?
    - xingped 10mo ago
      I'm sorry, yes, you're right. I misremembered which series I was thinking about.
- marcher 10mo ago
  In the puzzle game series The Talos Principle, intelligent robots (who were made to outlive humanity after a species-ending global pandemic) seem to have the exact same kind of affinity for caring for cats that humans do. It's actually really sweet and cute.
- cfraenkel 10mo ago
  "There will come soft rains" Ray Bradbury
- deleted 10mo ago
  [deleted]
- jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
  You might like the game Stray. Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJawWyRUOBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJawWyRUOBM It's about a cat that lives in a city of robots long after humans are extinct.
jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
The domestication of cats happened because of the invention of farming. If you store grain in a granary, it attracts a lot of insects, rodents, etc. Cats that could tolerate getting close to human settlements found a good food source. And humans like this, because the cats protect the grain without eating it. So you can see why ancient agrarian societies like the Egyptians held cats in high esteem. And despite only having a few thousand years to adapt to each other, ends up cats and humans can understand each other and form emotional bonds pretty easily. I imagine we'll see cats on spaceships of the future just like they were the norm on ships in the age of sail.

taneq 10mo ago

Maybe the cats were themselves invented by mice?

nervousvarun 10mo ago

Obligatory Banks Culture universe reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series Basically when the "minds" are benevolent deities all scenarios are possible including this one. We can spend our time with cats, we can even turn into cats...as he writes about "Changers" who genetically alter themselves or shift species at whim. And as always if someone acts up and violates the Golden Rule they get a slap drone: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Slap-drone

cryptonector 10mo ago

Red Dwarf joins the chat

m463 10mo ago

a chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.