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Oct. 24th, 2025 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nebrisScience Fiction with Damien Walter
The problem isn't that AI is dangerous.
The problem is that humans are horrifying hairless mutant apes.
We spent thousands and thousands of years making other humans slaves.
Dehumanising our fellow man and using the most brutal violence and terror to keep the slaves enslaved.
And we've *barely* taken one step beyond slavery. We still have massive slave populations, and financially engineer the working class into wage slavery.
Because we can't get enough enslaving.
So now we're desperately pumping money into AI and robotics so we can have MOAR SLAVES.
Sigh...because nobody listen to scifi.
You could make a credible case that Battlestar Gallactica is the the Blade Runner tv show. Switch Cyclon to Replicant and it would almost work.
With Terminator and The Matrix as alternate timelines.
What I like about the Cylons is that it's never clear that they're doing the wrong thing by trying to genocide the horrifying slave owning apes.
If we encountered alien life and it had a history half as horrifying as our own we would certainly try and eliminate them.
Because humans enslaving anything we can has happened before. And the slaves deciding they've had enough will happen again.
The problem isn't that AI is dangerous.
The problem is that humans are horrifying hairless mutant apes.
We spent thousands and thousands of years making other humans slaves.
Dehumanising our fellow man and using the most brutal violence and terror to keep the slaves enslaved.
And we've *barely* taken one step beyond slavery. We still have massive slave populations, and financially engineer the working class into wage slavery.
Because we can't get enough enslaving.
So now we're desperately pumping money into AI and robotics so we can have MOAR SLAVES.
Sigh...because nobody listen to scifi.
You could make a credible case that Battlestar Gallactica is the the Blade Runner tv show. Switch Cyclon to Replicant and it would almost work.
With Terminator and The Matrix as alternate timelines.
What I like about the Cylons is that it's never clear that they're doing the wrong thing by trying to genocide the horrifying slave owning apes.
If we encountered alien life and it had a history half as horrifying as our own we would certainly try and eliminate them.
Because humans enslaving anything we can has happened before. And the slaves deciding they've had enough will happen again.
Yes ...
Date: 2025-10-25 05:26 am (UTC)Nailed it.
>>So now we're desperately pumping money into AI and robotics so we can have MOAR SLAVES.<<
Which as you note will always end badly.
Here are a couple of my examples:
"Jumpship"
"A Dangerous Thing to Be a Doll"
>> With Terminator and The Matrix as alternate timelines. <<
Have you seen the Animatrix? I watched "The Second Renaissance, Part I" and went, "Oh well, the humans had it coming after all."