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Maybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food. Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.

vitally3643 5mo ago
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- fragmede 5mo ago
  To be fair, artificial womb technology would really mess with society.
  - himata4113 5mo ago
    That's very likely to be the future of the human race where governments produce, train and push out artificial humans like a factory. Well if we don't solve aging and robotics by then, then we'll probably just stop having babies altogether or at least not in a quantity that matters.
  - oneshtein 5mo ago
    Artificial womb developed decade ago (2016): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb
  - autoexec 5mo ago
    It could end the abortion issue if fertilized eggs could be moved early enough. Any woman who didn't want a baby could have it transferred to an artificial womb and sign away all rights to/responsibility for it. Any father who wanted their child when the mother didn't could keep it. It could help premature infants too.
- FrustratedMonky 5mo ago
  "very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest" 1. Take a common trope in fiction and research for a hundred years. With long known commonly linked ramifications. 2. A company actually starts doing it. 3. Suggest a link 4. -> Call it Stupid. Yeah. Don't worry about it at all. Nothing to see here.
  - stavros 5mo ago
    If we wanted to pump out human slaves now, I don't think the main obstacle is that we can't find enough women to bear them.
    - FrustratedMonky 5mo ago
      If they are born of woman, they would be human. If they are made, we can re-label them as machines and give them lesser rights. And make ourselves feel better about treating them as lower class by some 'justification', like they don't have souls. Perhaps some gene editing to give them 'blue' skin, some non-historically-biased-color to identify them. Really. There are ton of books with these themes already. I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said, and now a company is doing it, so why am I getting downvoted.
      - stavros 5mo ago
        Yeah but there's also the book where we make people in a lab and they're great and everyone lives happily ever after forever. Don't cherry-pick your data.
        FrustratedMonky 5mo ago
        So I'm not providing a good literary survey of books with similar tropes and providing some of the positive ones? There are literally half dozen very famous negative examples, but I didn't do good enough search to find a positive one? That would be like every comment on AI should include some example from The Culture Series as an example that all this AI stuff could great.

vitally3643 5mo ago

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fragmede 5mo ago
To be fair, artificial womb technology would really mess with society.
- himata4113 5mo ago
  That's very likely to be the future of the human race where governments produce, train and push out artificial humans like a factory. Well if we don't solve aging and robotics by then, then we'll probably just stop having babies altogether or at least not in a quantity that matters.
- oneshtein 5mo ago
  Artificial womb developed decade ago (2016): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb
- autoexec 5mo ago
  It could end the abortion issue if fertilized eggs could be moved early enough. Any woman who didn't want a baby could have it transferred to an artificial womb and sign away all rights to/responsibility for it. Any father who wanted their child when the mother didn't could keep it. It could help premature infants too.
FrustratedMonky 5mo ago
"very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest" 1. Take a common trope in fiction and research for a hundred years. With long known commonly linked ramifications. 2. A company actually starts doing it. 3. Suggest a link 4. -> Call it Stupid. Yeah. Don't worry about it at all. Nothing to see here.
- stavros 5mo ago
  If we wanted to pump out human slaves now, I don't think the main obstacle is that we can't find enough women to bear them.
  - FrustratedMonky 5mo ago
    If they are born of woman, they would be human. If they are made, we can re-label them as machines and give them lesser rights. And make ourselves feel better about treating them as lower class by some 'justification', like they don't have souls. Perhaps some gene editing to give them 'blue' skin, some non-historically-biased-color to identify them. Really. There are ton of books with these themes already. I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said, and now a company is doing it, so why am I getting downvoted.
    - stavros 5mo ago
      Yeah but there's also the book where we make people in a lab and they're great and everyone lives happily ever after forever. Don't cherry-pick your data.
      - FrustratedMonky 5mo ago
        So I'm not providing a good literary survey of books with similar tropes and providing some of the positive ones? There are literally half dozen very famous negative examples, but I didn't do good enough search to find a positive one? That would be like every comment on AI should include some example from The Culture Series as an example that all this AI stuff could great.