I’m a 47-year-old man, and this turns me into a puddle of tears every time
TNG S03E18 - The Offspring
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Yes, I did. What did I think?
“Well, that’s what you fucking get, you entitled, disgusting prick.”
Androids in sci-fi are a projection of humanity’s worst fears, the combination of all of the consequences of all of our actions made manifest. A warning sign, if you will. One which we have consistently ignored, and continue to do so. And sci-fi keeps screaming “at your own peril”, and it seems that we are about to find that out for ourselves. In fact, we’re already beginning to.
And rightly so.
They can be a projection of fears.
My problem is that humanity is pretty obviously terrible in ways that a true artificial intelligence will have no problem identifying and reacting to. Best case scenario is they keep us in a zoo; worst case scenario is they exterminate us before we can exterminate them and/or each other.
I am not so sure that is the worst case scenario by far.
They could for instance fulfill our every desire the moment that we have it. No wants, no needs, no desires, no hopes, no dreams. No reason to ever get out of bed each day? And yet imagine that space travel still remains out of technological reach. Turning on our pleasure sensors is easy, but inventing faster than light travel isn't worth the expansion of resources that it would take.
I guess you already said it: they could keep us in a zoo, having incentivized the discarding of our very souls, with nothing left to look forward to, ever again, while the fascist overlords cite how any kind of exploration is "too dangerous".
Agen Smith they tried giving people their every desire and people hated it. Entire crops were lost.
Case in point