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I bet we'll soon see people that identify as "non-humanoid" as the mental illness Clown World goes round and round.
Sounds crazy, but we have already accepted that some people think they're "non-binary".
Why our species has some sort of innate desire to become obsolete is rather perplexing. What happens when nobody has any use or value?
Depends on what you mean by use or value. Is the worth of a human solely based on wealth generation or are there other contributions humans make to society? Perhaps this will be a positive change as right now we tie virtue and total worth (not just financial) to job titles or bank account size and not one's deeds or time devoted to helping fellow humans.
In our current society, you can be a very Rotten individual but if you are wealthy you get a "Virtue" pass since we see Wealth as extremely positive and place it on a pedestal to the point that we will ignore just how rotten you are in your daily actions. If your lower income our society sees you as a net negative even if your are low income is due to your love for teaching pre-schoolers or donating your time to youth activities, you are seen as less than in comparison to someone with wealth.
If all this AI change brings about a change where see worth in individuals outside of their monetary value then I would count that change as a huge positive.
Does this track towards a society where people no longer have to work to live and are free to pursue passions? Or go the Matrix/Terminator route where humanity becomes irrelevant to the machines? Why has most of our fiction gone the dystopian route?
"a map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of utopias." - Oscar Wilde
Does this track towards a society where people no longer have to work to live and are free to pursue passions? Or go the Matrix/Terminator route where humanity becomes irrelevant to the machines? Why has most of our fiction gone the dystopian route?
"a map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of utopias." - Oscar Wilde
I lean hard towards the dystopian route.
Why would we our species need 8 billion people on the planet if we're not working towards a greater future?
Why would we our species need 8 billion people on the planet if we're not working towards a greater future?
...that's the pursuit of utopia?
But even the post scarcity society of Star Trek had to go through a nuclear WW3 and first contact with an alien civilization to get there.
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