As long as future robots remain well integrated into society, and become more powerful gradually and peacefully, at each step respecting the law we use to keep the peace among ourselves, and also to keep the peace between them, I see no more reason for them to exterminate us than we now have to exterminate retirees or everyone over 100 years old. We live now in a world where some of us are many times more powerful than others, and yet we still use law to keep the peace, because we fear the consequences of violating that peace. Let’s try to keep it that way.
It is interesting how many people look at the world and conclude: the people who do not believe as I believe do not really believe what they believe; the people who do not think as I think do not really think what they think.
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Barack Obama’s like MFing statue.
“Weird Al” Yankovic - CNR (via alyankovic)
Charles Nelson Reilly has Chuck Norris’s head on his wall.
I just finished Julian Comstock, the last third of which takes place in Central Park, 200-years in the future, after “the fall of cities”. Not a fantastic book…mostly disappointing because his other books are so odd. This was both more removed from the present — his others take place in a mostly recognizable “now” — and far more predictable and familiar. It was an environmental, political parable as rooted in current politics as any 50s red scare sci-fi.
TIm Barber, WCP
