REC - Glad to see someone else has tapped into this work.
I discovered Wells' Murderbot series a year ago or so and what a timely find!
I do love the way she presents the advanced "self aiming gun turret"'s form of self (and other) awareness.
- SAS On 12/12/24 12:04 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote:Seems there are good reasons to replace humans. 1) Humans can’t easily travel to new planets due to radiation and hostile environments. 2) Our appetite for energy is vast and our decadence unbounded. A rising standard of living for all humans will accelerate this due to increased demands for fossil fuels. 3) At least in the United States, our education system is not serving the whole of the population effectively, leading to the election of people that make our problems worse. 4) We can’t cooperate to solve or even identify real problems. 5) AI seems to be successfully harvesting human knowledge and extending it, e.g. AlphaFold. 6) Human life span is too limited to consume all available media.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries are stories about a self aiming gun turret who discovers a wider world and gets confused by it.-- rec -- .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoomhttps://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribehttp://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIChttp://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru presenthttps://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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