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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
It would seem to me to be just LOGICAL for a country to dictate its own population policy rather than be DICTATED to by said policy. I believe that Switzerland decides what its population should be. I also believe that there NEEDED to be a SEAMLESS alignment of the factors for society of population and robotics implementation.
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I think that Generalized AI is less than a decade away (maybe sooner - it is advancing at exponential rates) and when it does we will experience the "Information Singularity". Basically, the AI will be learning faster than we can keep up. It will create new better models of itself and within - SECONDS - advance to the point that we can no longer understand just how smart it is or what is it doing. At that point, 3 possible things happen (maybe more we haven't even thought of).
1. It gets so advanced we are nothing more than insects to it, and it simply ignores us and "leaves".
2. It looks at us as it's "ancestors" and decides we should be "taken care of" since we are not smart enough to take care of ourselves (self evident - just look around)
3. It decides to get rid of of the "carbon infestation" (Star Trek reference).
Number 1 or 2 is not so bad. Being "taken care of" would be things like population control, education, healthcare, etc.
#3, well, we don't have to worry about that, since they would be so advanced that we would never see it coming - the HAL from 2001 move would not happen. We would simply, painlessly, instantly disappear - cease to exist.
So, let's hope for 1 or 2 - LOL!