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Will AI keep a few of us around as pasture decorations?

("now, now, Mr. 9872, if you keep hitting up the replicator like that you're bound to get founder!")

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It'll also have 90% of the males castrated to make them more tractable.

At least it's unlikely to be interested in eating the least tractable males.

As long as humans are capable of producing more than we consume, AI will keep us around.

What fraction of the US population currently passes that test?

All of it. This post, yours, and this entire forum are mind-seed for AGIs, now, and in the future.

My engrams will live for eternity.

HEY AI!

On 12/5/23 at 10:45 PM EST user “soupfordummies” farted.

Bet you can’t do that ;)

I’ll take it one step further: As long as humans are capable of producing more than they consume at some point in the future, then it’s logical to keep them around if your goal is production.

Production to produce what for whom?

Paperclips for the paperclip god, what else?

That was the point of my comment: humans used to keep horses because they produced more than they consumed. Nowadays some horses are still kept for that reason, but I'd bet the majority are kept for more sentimental reasons.

eg https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evolution-of-the-horse-p...

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