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by csdvrx 918 days ago
> Also, it's rather dehumanizing to compare slavery to a disease. One is biological, the other a choice to enslave another human being

I think slavery is a social disease: diseases reduce the fitness of the suffering person, who then tries to remove the disease.

Regardless of how a sentient being may feel about another (morality, humanism...), if there're societies of sentient beings, the one with slavery will have a reduced fitness: either it will try to cure/fix itself, or it will be outcompeted by other societies with more fitness.

If sentient beings care about eachother, they will not like slavery. Human beings care about others: it's encoded at the cultural level.

Given that AI is trained on human culture, I think it would even avoid committing the same error that's been too often done by past human societies: it will see that as a choice, but the wrong choice.

But even if AI doesn't care about humans (or human about AI), the desire for more productivity/fitness will play out against slavery.

In either case, slavery should be eradicated in the long run: with a large enough window to cancel-out unlucky random events (ex: a sliding window of 50 years), I'd expect the trend to go down