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> Strictly speaking, they don't even need us as customers. They can just have the robots build them yachts and mansions directly. And act as security guards. T
by unsnap_biceps 5mo ago
> Strictly speaking, they don't even need us as customers. They can just have the robots build them yachts and mansions directly. And act as security guards.
That sounds like we'll devolve into wars over resources so houses can build more war-bots and get more resources....
- smallmancontrov 5mo agoStarcraft for Billionaires In the voice of worker-bot: "That's your plan?!?!"
- D-Machine 5mo ago> That sounds like we'll devolve into wars over resources Two astronauts meme: "Wait, it's all been over resources?" "Always has been"
- galactushonor 5mo agoThis time the have-nots have a better target to attack. The datacenters. A concentrated physical manifestation of would-be trillionaire superrichs.
- tasoeur 5mo agoUntil the datacenters happen to be in space.
- kibwen 5mo agoThere is no such thing as a self-sufficient version of any industry in space, and you should expect this to remain the case for approximately the next 10,000 years. Until then, everything that happens in space will have a supply chain rooted on Earth.
- kelnos 5mo agoThen the targets become the launch pads. Those space-based datacenters will need constant resupply and maintenance. Destroy launch capability, and their orbits will decay and all that computing capacity will burn up in the atmosphere. We are so so so far away from self-sustaining machinery in space that it's not even funny.
- neutronicus 5mo agoOnce there are like 150,000 humans resources will be functionally unlimited
- scoofy 5mo agoI mean, you are describing the vast majority of history.