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originally posted by: Shamrock6
All your base are belong to us!
originally posted by: and14263
a reply to: tonycodes
When you say "a derivative is never as valuable as the source..."
It all depends on what we value. You personally do not value super fast calculative problem solving or the ability to work 1000hours without stopping or going to sleep... These are the simplest attributes of computer/ai/ability.
However most people interested in economics do value these attributes.
Therefore the derivative is highly more valuable and creates a more efficient economy.
Any derivative which solves a problem faced by the source is most likely more valuable than the source. It's called evolution.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
originally posted by: Shamrock6
All your base are belong to us!
You should have used the Terminator replacement mod, they look so much better than the Synth's even if they are then just as weak in the game.
www.nexusmods.com...
Back on topic.
The AI thread is genuine but the real threat to people is the current economic model, you can only keep people well, healthy and occupied if they have something to do, yes you can replace there pay with a cost of living welfare for all citizen's and remake the economic model but only over the dead body's of a lot of fascist inspired banksters and corrupt oligarch's etc.
The truth is that if people's job's are taken by machine's and they will be, then you have to have something for them, how do they pay there mortgage when that accounting AI takes over completely, how to they make end's meat when the logging business replaced them with safer, faster and more capable AI driven machine's probably powered by a networked intelligence based in a future internet.
The answer is you may not be able to, so some will fear the people more than the machine's and will indeed strive to sterilize or otherwise limit the human population seeing us as more of a threat than the machine's.