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choppergirl wrote:AI is just a playground for your imagination.
No. It's a lot more than that. It's already driving our cars, for example, which is not just a playground for imagination. At some point (if not already), it will be deciding if you're reliable enough to get a home loan or safe enough to get on an airplane. It will be deciding if you deserve health care based on your age and history. It may even decide if you are worthwhile enough to allow to live.
choppergirl wrote:Statism is the most dangerous thing you've unleashed on yourselves.
What you call "statism" has been around in one form or another since human beings began working together for common goals (in other words, for our entire history as a species). Whether "statism" is bad or good depends on how it is implemented and on the validity of the "common goals".
choppergirl wrote:It will end your species in the end.
If it ("statism") hasn't done so by now, then that seems unlikely. Statism is run by people, and it needs people to exist, so it's not likely to end the human species. AI, on the other hand, is a new species itself. At some point, it won't need people at all. If you think people (who need other people on some level) are bad, wait until you see how AI will treat the human race (when it doesn't need us at all). If you want an analogy, just look at how we've treated chimpanzees (which are our closest living relative).
choppergirl wrote:You started off with some minimal government. You got endless wars and economic slavery.
Endless wars and economic slavery (a form of control) are endemic in our species and nearly all others. You will find them as far back in our history as you care to search. But you will also find them in other species as well. All forms of life strive to dominate and to control their environment (including others within their environment). To blame that on "statism" seems misplaced unless you've broadened the definition to include all evolutionary processes.
AI may be a fun play thing for some right now. But it will become a new species that will be superior to us both mentally and physically. Are we prepared to move from masters of the planet to the role of chimpanzees in zoos? And if not, what are we going to do about it?
