[FRIAM] The last Lighthouse Keeper in America

[Roger Critchlow]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 8:51 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

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> Really hoping the machines can take over soon.
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I just yesterday finished rereading all the Iain M Banks "Culture" novels
in the Boston Public Library e-collection, seven between Halloween and
Christmas.  The "Culture" is a space-going far future civilization of
organic life - humanoid and other - and of artificially sentient beings.
The machine "Minds" pretty much run the infrastructure and economy while
the organic beings party, study,  travel, pursue dangerous hobbies,
whatever. It's all post-scarcity, so everyone can pretty much have what
they want.

It sounds like the Culture "Minds" pretty much solved the dictatorship of
the proletariat in the Culture's history.  You raise dumb matter to
sentience and let it sort everything out.  The energy and matter of the
tools that the proletarians used are even more prole than the proles.

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