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  mhh5, 6 Sep 2000 @ 1:31am

  
  

  Robots are our servants...

  Humans have already embraced robots as our slaves. Pets are just a subset of the slave-category... The real question is when will *we* be the slaves to the computers...? :) If humans ever co-exist with robots as "equals", it won't be long until they become our masters....

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    Ryan, 6 Sep 2000 @ 3:20am

    
    

    Re: Robots are our servants...

    Hmmm.... possibly that goes along with the whole Bill Joy scenario. We have to be really careful to about giving biological motives to machines, they don't have the same drives that we do so terms such as master and slave in my opinion don't really apply. They perform a task, that's it. As they get more adaptive and "intelligent" it is possible that they will out compete us. It's not a future that scares me because we will at some point probably have a chance to shed our biological skins and join them (in one way or another). Pretty freaky, eh? The only problem comes for those unwilling to change.

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      mhh5, 6 Sep 2000 @ 2:20pm

      
      

      Re: Robots are our servants...

      Well, if robots out compete us, and we have to turn into them (can't beat 'em, join 'em), what about the people who aren't unwilling to change but *can't* change for whatever reasons? What if the robots don't *let* us change? What if they need us to remain human to do their maintenance? Or we all (cough) turn into coppertops...? :)

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        Ryan, 7 Sep 2000 @ 5:39am

        
        

        Re: Robots are our servants...

        umm...being a coppertop isn't that bad after all Neo will come and save us!
        
        I sort of view change as a gradual death and rebirth so it death seems unescapable (it's just the means that will differ gradual which is fine to most humans or instant, without rebirth which isn't). I believe that we will as a society gradual become one with our artificial creations, so those who don't or can't will probably just be left to their own means (quite literally). If a superior intelligence emerged why would they need to destroy us or enslave us, just leave the planet but I'm sure a lot of us would want to join them. Okay, that's enough of the unfounded craziness that I occasionally cook up.

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