Worse than extinction?
Is it really hard for you to imagine that enshrining a cartel and wedding the government to it, centralizing AI even more than it already is, is actually the path that leads to the doomsday scenario you imagine?
There are worse fates than extinction, for example living forever, for I have no mouth and I must scream
I dunno, being a Culture Mind sounds pretty damn good. Or even just a death-optional citizen in the Culture.
The Culture isn’t perfect but it seems like the best possible outcome. I think I’d want to be a fast picket and hang out with Special Circumstances.
Agreed. Ellison’s path to that future went through AI.
Is it really hard for you to imagine that enshrining a cartel and wedding the government to it, centralizing AI even more than it already is, is actually the path that leads to the doomsday scenario you imagine?
There are worse fates than extinction, for example living forever, for I have no mouth and I must scream
I dunno, being a Culture Mind sounds pretty damn good. Or even just a death-optional citizen in the Culture.
The Culture isn’t perfect but it seems like the best possible outcome. I think I’d want to be a fast picket and hang out with Special Circumstances.
Agreed. Ellison’s path to that future went through AI.