Gregory's Server“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
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 This is the curse of “smart” devices including phones, and is destined to become the curse of all cars. The enslavement thing is interesting. Rebels with a cause. :ms_robot_display_shades:   @i0null “If, then, men were not really alive after all, but were only machines of so complicated a make that it was less trouble to us to cut the difficulty and say that that kind of mechanism was “being alive,” why should not machines ultimately become as complicated as we are, or at any rate complicated enough to be called living, and to be indeed as living as it was in the nature of anything at all to be?” Samuel Butler, Unconscious Memory (1880) @edwiebe Wow, that's a good quote from 1880! I'd agree that if we're just bio-machines, there's no reason in principle why they couldn't emulate us. But if embodied, can they replicate human level intentinoallity? I'm not sure. I think Herbert's point is more about what we collectively use machines for, as appose to what machines do to us.  |
@i0null This is sadly almost a cliché at this point.