> On 24 Jun 2016, at 09:18, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 04:01:00PM -0700, Jim Vassilakos wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>  "Eliminating this requirement would probably require strong AI,
>>  which is a lot more than just automation and opens a whole other
>>  can of worms.”
>> <snip/>
>
> Development of strong AI is really a "singularity" event: it would
> affect the whole of society is so many fundamental ways that it is
> pretty much impossible to extrapolate beyond.  That is to say,
> regarding questions like "class division" and "freedom of the press",
> my non-answer would be that I think it's likely to alter society so
> greatly that the bases of the questions no longer exist.
>
> <more snips/>
>
>
> I think that development of strong AI could easily have a greater,
> faster, and more unpredictable effect than agriculture, writing,
> money, and industrialization combined.
>
>
> This is probably a good reason for maintaining the "no strong AI"
> aspect of the Traveller setting.  Whatever civilization develops
> afterward should probably be more alien to us than Hivers are, and
> that makes it very difficult to write about or play in.
>
> Playing in the beginnings of such a revolution, though -- that might
> be interesting.

In the Chinese meaning of the word, and probably only for a short time…

Regards, Andy

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