"Beyoncé has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with “Cowboy Carter,” marking the biggest sales for an album so far in 2024." Yeah, she could use...
“I don't want to belong to any club that would not sacrifice me as one of its members.”. - Groucho Marxist
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What is it? A film? A singer? A coffee table book?
Ever look at some of the artwork from the 19th century, showing their fears of robot takeover? [IMG] Did you read Frankenstein? Cautionary tales...
Perhaps. But I have the lessons of history on my side. Game-changing, disruptive technology comes around every century or two. Not one was resulted...
'Scientifically objective' would be to tally up all confirmed cases during those 140 years of events. That can be tallied with one finger. With one...
This sounds suspiciously similar to the Middle Ground Fallacy: the idea that, given two (mutually exclusive) opposing views on some given issue, a...
Since tenuously accommodating indigenous beliefs and non-Western science (and even anti-Western sentiments) is a burgeoning part of W.E.I.R.D.'s...
No. Google Assistant on my phone is property and obeys my orders, but it does not qualify as a slave. We still have yet to find that line between...
Oh, I see. We haven't yet, in fact, determined that bots would be considered slaves. So in post 26, when you said you'd 'buy a slave in a...
I don't think that will be the case. AI will take up mindless jobs and the more interesting stuff will be done by humans. Think of a hand-held...
Unfortunately for the modern UFO community, drones are ubiquitous and can come in all shapes and sizes - including saucers and cigars. [ATTACH] No...
I think you missed my point though. You wondered if humans have a proclivity for slaves. I'm saying it's not the slaves we like; it's just the...
It's a human thing to be lazy. To want to not do boring work. Today, we have people to do our boring work, but we are happy to pay them. That way,...
'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' by Becky Chambers
No. That only creatures who can comprehend the responsibilites of freedom are capable of navigating it. We love our pets, but we can't set them free;...
But they're not 'bots' - and we don't 'program' them. You also said: "they have an artificial nervous system and are nigh on humans."
Well that's kind of my point. I'm responding to the implications of your posts 3 and 6. AI would be qualitatively different from animals. It is fair...
This title keeps popping up in my recos for reading...
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