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Dec. 1st, 2006 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
podlingSo I read yesterday that Stephen Hawking thinks we should colonize other planets if we are to survive as a race. I agree. And afterwards we should create AI slaves, uh, I mean servants... we'll call them... pylons. And hubris won't be our downfall, though the pylons might not agree.
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Date: 2006-12-01 09:27 pm (UTC)*runs*
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Date: 2006-12-01 07:50 pm (UTC)You would think someone who relies as heavily as he does on technology would have more respect for it. Just sayin'.
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Date: 2006-12-01 07:57 pm (UTC)Anyway, I doubt he thinks we should build robot slaves, but then again, I don't know if anyone's ever asked him...
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Date: 2006-12-01 08:19 pm (UTC)*face/palm*
God. I need coffee, clearly.
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Date: 2006-12-01 08:01 pm (UTC)The tragedy of the past though is that one group of people with some common factor, like race and ethnicity, would enslave a group of people of a different race and ethnicity. Maybe have a national lottery and determine the slave-class by random drawing? Or pick some characteristic that cuts across racial and ethnic lines, like ugliness. Establish some bench marks for attractiveness, and everyone who doesn't meet those criteria are slaves to the people that do. That way we avoid arguments against elitism: wealthy ugly people would be stripped of their wealth and enslaved. Or maybe enslave people who drive old cars--unless those old cars have reached antique status, in which case their owners are not slaves, but masters along with the people that have newer cars. People who don't won cars, less children, would also be candidates for slavery.
Anyway, I think this approach is a more fair, equitable, civilized way to gather a slave population. It's not based on wealth or race or sex or ethnicity, nor is it based on geograhical colonization or conquest (so there is no military budget with which to contend). It's equal opportunity, based on the caprice of nature and luck.
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Date: 2006-12-01 08:21 pm (UTC)(And it's really weird running into people you know through someone else in the LJ's of other people that you didn't know knew eachother. O.O)
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Date: 2006-12-01 09:24 pm (UTC);-)
You drive an old car and don't have kids. And the whole enslaving people was your idea, so I say start with you.
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Date: 2006-12-01 10:31 pm (UTC)Your attempt to make me your
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Date: 2006-12-01 10:02 pm (UTC)You did?
I guess I overdid it on the crack that day.
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