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by SirHackalot 18 days ago
You don’t like Star Trek TNG? Maybe I should’ve picked LoTR or Atlas Shrugged? The tech oligarchy is more than fine co-opting fiction (fantasy and sci-fi especially). I don’t see why it’s weird at all… Aside from that, your critique is just an opinion about the show itself and its creators (and incentives?…). More importantly, you completely failed to address the "slave" argument.
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nradov 18 days ago
I didn't say that I didn't like it. It's fine as casual entertainment. Only a fool would take it as anything more than that.

Electrons can't be a slave. The "argument" is so silly as to be unworthy of a serious response. People getting wrapped up in this stuff need to touch grass.

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jay_kyburz 18 days ago
Humans are just walking Electrons.

I think the whole topic is very worthy of discussion because, it may not happen in a year or two, but I have no doubt that it will happen in the next 50.

We need to start imagining what life will be like, and I think fiction presents some fine examples of where we want to go, and where we don't.

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SirHackalot 18 days ago
Anyone who believes AGI is imminent is operating on pure materialism (those two Venn diagrams pretty much make a circle), assuming that humans are nothing more than a collection of neural electrical connections and chemical reactions. If that's the case, your argument applies equally to humans under the assumption that AGI is possible. Frankly, I think you just can't reason philosophically...

You’ve also name called me multiple times now. That’s what one does when they can’t lean on the merit of their argument alone.

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