<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg383769951756686958"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_383769951756686958WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Seems there are good reasons to replace humans.<br><br>1) Humans can’t easily travel to new planets due to radiation and hostile environments.<br>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.<br>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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">4) We can’t cooperate to solve or even identify real problems.<br>5) AI seems to be successfully harvesting human knowledge and extending it, e.g. AlphaFold.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div id="gmail-:3vp" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-aO9 gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:85px" aria-controls=":3y4" aria-expanded="false">6) Human life span is too limited to consume all available media.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries</a> are stories about a self aiming gun turret who discovers a wider world and gets confused by it.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>-- rec -- </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg383769951756686958"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_383769951756686958WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u></span></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><br></p></div></div></div>
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