Maybe some Homo Sapiens would survive, humanity wouldn’t. Are the human animals in 1984 “people”? After Winston Smith dies is there any humanity left?
I can envision a time when less freedom and more authority is necessary for our survival. But a god-like totalitarian pretty much comes out where extinction does in my utility function.
Oh. My mistake. When you wrote, “Plus wishing for all people to be under the rule of a god-like totalitarian sounds to me like the best way to destroy humanity.”, I read:
[Totalitarian rule… ] … [is] … the best way to destroy humanity, (as in cause and effect.)
OR maybe you meant: wishing … [is] … the best way to destroy humanity
It just never occurred to me you meant, “a god-like totalitarian pretty much comes out where extinction does in my utility function”.
Are you willing to consider that totalitarian rule by a machine might be a whole new thing, and quite unlike totalitarian rule by people?
Maybe some Homo Sapiens would survive, humanity wouldn’t. Are the human animals in 1984 “people”? After Winston Smith dies is there any humanity left?
I can envision a time when less freedom and more authority is necessary for our survival. But a god-like totalitarian pretty much comes out where extinction does in my utility function.
IIRC, Winston Smith doesn’t die; by the end, his spirit is completely broken and he’s practically a living ghost, but alive.
Oh. My mistake. When you wrote, “Plus wishing for all people to be under the rule of a god-like totalitarian sounds to me like the best way to destroy humanity.”, I read:
[Totalitarian rule… ] … [is] … the best way to destroy humanity, (as in cause and effect.)
OR maybe you meant: wishing … [is] … the best way to destroy humanity
It just never occurred to me you meant, “a god-like totalitarian pretty much comes out where extinction does in my utility function”.
Are you willing to consider that totalitarian rule by a machine might be a whole new thing, and quite unlike totalitarian rule by people?