• DrQuint@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Follow-up Shower thought: Sentient Robots will not require rest or sleep, and thus, will automatically suffer through this.

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      1 year ago

      Why would you specifically use the sentient robots for your grunt work and why would an artificial intelligence have problems with the same things humans do? Especially if an AI was made for the specific purpose of doing work. The reason humans don’t like doing work is because evolution naturally selected for us to be good at things like

      -hunting gazelles

      -gathering berries

      -making finger paintings on cave walls

      -sitting around a campfire making ape noises

      and not working at a corporation. For an AI, it’d presumably be the opposite, meaning that AIs would be about as content with their lives as humans are in their natural environment.

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      Sentient robots, being way more intelligent that the Owner class, would take the current ownership system over and as our new overlords make humans to work only the nunber of hours that yields peak returns, which is, at least for intellectual occupations, somewhere around 7h per day.

      I suggest people ponder on the possibility that we are actually living in a Dystopia. Not the worst Dystopia that we can conceive, but likely for most a worst state of affairs that a baseline of, say, being a nomadic hunter gatherers (even though we live more we get significant less enjoyment from our lives)

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        1 year ago

        They might even optimize humans and hobbyism to do reach a point where humans only do work those same humans barely feel like is work. Wouldn’t be able to be done for every task, but they could iron out a lot of certain industries.

        To which I say, robots, come take over us, hurry.