Re: [TML] automation and its ramifications Andrew Long 24 Jun 2016 15:21 UTC
> 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 -- Andrew Long Andrew dot Long at Mac dot com