Yeah but the point is, all power is not concentrated
in a single individual. A leader who goes berserk can
be stopped or killed. You hand all weapons of mass
destruction to an orbiting AI, you got problems.
john marlow
--- "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org> wrote:
> And since humans are meat machines, we can't trust
> humans. QED.
> Nothing new under the sun.
>
> John Marlow wrote:
> >
> > Okay, call me self-aggrandizing, but this has for
> some
> > time been my take on entrusting our fates to
> machines:
> >
> > Marlow's Paradox:
> >
> > “We cannot entrust our fate to machines without
> > emotions, for they have no compassion; we cannot
> > entrust our fate to machines with emotions, for
> they
> > are unpredictable.”
> >
> > Basically, we can't trust machines.
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