What will they do with all the humans? I doubt the “elites” are just gonna let us lounge around for free. This makes something like using useless humans as an energy source more of a plausible reality. Because what are humans essentially? A workhorse of the elites. And if we become obsolete as workhorses, we’ll either be eliminated, or used as an energy source, or meat source, or used in some other worse nefarious way. I suppose death would be the best option, should we be so lucky.
I agree that it will likely be capitalism run amok.
However, I don’t think the elites are the biggest threat – that comes from the machines themselves. Sooner or later, AI will reach a point where we will lose control of it for good, and we’ll be helpless.
The other threat is just collective suicide due to a lack of purpose.
Our brilliance and ingenuity are amazing, conquering new thresholds daily. Maybe one day we’ll have the good sense to stop reproducing, but I doubt it. A world overflowing with humanity and we continue to seek methods of cost cutting that will guarantee our offspring – what? Gadgets?
And today alone, thousands of new humans are being born into a future from which opportunities are being stripped away by the very parents responsible for their birth. Who do we have to blame, other than ourselves? Mutually assured destruction doesn’t necessarily involve mushroom clouds and fusion. It involves human ingenuity and the need for toys. Here’s to a bright future, in which we eat ourselves. “Soylent Green is people!!”
Why do you think great civilizations have risen and fallen, risen and fallen? I believe humans have already tried destroying ourselves, and history is repeating itself yet again.
I blame everyone- all the idiots who willingly voted our rights away, and those who stayed silent and did nothing. I blame the idiot parents who keep breeding and popping out children into a world where they’ll only know pain and suffering and poverty. Unless the parents are wealthy. If you are poor, you should not be throwing your offspring to the wolves, which is basically what you’re doing. If you’re poor (which is most of the population), you’re not going to give that child any kind of life. It’s cruel and it’s punishing.
But people do it because they’re selfish bastards. They don’t want to be lonely, so they pop out children. They want someone to take care of them when they’re old, so they pop out children. They have hubris and want to pass on their shitty, or at best, mediocre genes, and pass on their family name. And what does the kid get? To grow up and do this shit to someone else.
“And today alone, thousands of new humans are being born into a future from which opportunities are being stripped away by the very parents responsible for their birth.”
–> Could not be better said.
When i see things like this I am…disturbed. There was a grimace on my face throughout. Something about being inundated with interconnected, learning robots, screens, snow white rooms, these ultra clean cut “people” in suits etc. It’s all so clean and modern it genuinely disgusts me. That;s just not how my brain understands human life.
Then again. I’m mostly fine with the current level of tech. I like my computer and my smart phone. They are useful.
My grandparents are in their 70’s and 80’s. I wonder did they feel this way when tv and computers were emerging?
my biases incline me toward what i know and am used to. But as the video states, much of this is unavoidable.
I guess i can only sigh and try to think of a new plan for surviving in this increasingly complex world.
Sometimes i feel like there are certain people who just don’t want to be humans anymore. they want to take the accumulation of scientific knowledge and understanding of the world and just abandon their humanity all together. Take it, fly into space and never look back.
May i never live to see that day. I like having a body and doing things and living and dying and i have no interest whatsoever in evolving beyond humanity. Or even beyond this planet.
This has been going on for hundreds of years. Barbers were a much bigger deal before disposable razors. Farms used to work on a small scale because the profit and risk were pretty even. I could go on a long rant about manufacturing. The point is that as we are replaced we may soon be getting paid not to work. It is not in the best interest of society to keep so many employable and intelligent people idle and unhappy. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop and all.
Or we’ll be at each other’s throat. It will be the end of humanity. Either option works for me.
This video, I don’t know. It is what it is – a commentary on the nature of a species that is basically an evolved bunch of idiots. I sat here for a few minutes trying to compose this into something intelligent sounding, but Jesus flippin’ banana pudding with chocolate syrup on top, I’m out of intelligent for today. We’re idiots, and we need a plague to wipe us out.
Evolved? Nah, I think humans have DEVOLVED. What makes you think we’re not getting dumber with each successive generation? Think about this- who are the ones having all the kids? The smart and educated? Nope. They 1- wait till they’re finally secure / older to have children 2- have fewer children, mainly just 1 or 2. Who are popping out children like pez candy? The dumb, the uneducated, the religious nuts like the Duggars who have 19 fucking kids, the crazies like Octomom with 14 kids, people who literally have no business having kids are the ones who have the most.
Have you seen idiocracy? We’ve pretty much reached that point. The idiots outbreed the intelligent. We as a species are devolving. Just 2 minutes of the world news will tell you that. It’s only a matter of time till they start pumping gatorade into our drinking waters. Oh wait, you mean they’re already pumping lead in the cities with poor people?
Also, think about the pyramids. We can’t even replicate how the Eqyptians built those giants things, and with such accuracy. Another argument to how we USED to be smart as a species but have now devolved into the dumb shits we are today. Lemme vote to take away my rights. Oh wait… O_o
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I dunno, I found it interesting. Once EVERYONE is unemployed, unemployment might not feel so stigmatized.
What will they do with all the humans? I doubt the “elites” are just gonna let us lounge around for free. This makes something like using useless humans as an energy source more of a plausible reality. Because what are humans essentially? A workhorse of the elites. And if we become obsolete as workhorses, we’ll either be eliminated, or used as an energy source, or meat source, or used in some other worse nefarious way. I suppose death would be the best option, should we be so lucky.
I agree that it will likely be capitalism run amok.
However, I don’t think the elites are the biggest threat – that comes from the machines themselves. Sooner or later, AI will reach a point where we will lose control of it for good, and we’ll be helpless.
The other threat is just collective suicide due to a lack of purpose.
So either iRobot- be controlled by AIs- or be controlled by the corrupt human pigs? Either way sucks. I advocate for mass genocide. Of ALL humans.
Our brilliance and ingenuity are amazing, conquering new thresholds daily. Maybe one day we’ll have the good sense to stop reproducing, but I doubt it. A world overflowing with humanity and we continue to seek methods of cost cutting that will guarantee our offspring – what? Gadgets?
And today alone, thousands of new humans are being born into a future from which opportunities are being stripped away by the very parents responsible for their birth. Who do we have to blame, other than ourselves? Mutually assured destruction doesn’t necessarily involve mushroom clouds and fusion. It involves human ingenuity and the need for toys. Here’s to a bright future, in which we eat ourselves. “Soylent Green is people!!”
Why do you think great civilizations have risen and fallen, risen and fallen? I believe humans have already tried destroying ourselves, and history is repeating itself yet again.
I blame everyone- all the idiots who willingly voted our rights away, and those who stayed silent and did nothing. I blame the idiot parents who keep breeding and popping out children into a world where they’ll only know pain and suffering and poverty. Unless the parents are wealthy. If you are poor, you should not be throwing your offspring to the wolves, which is basically what you’re doing. If you’re poor (which is most of the population), you’re not going to give that child any kind of life. It’s cruel and it’s punishing.
But people do it because they’re selfish bastards. They don’t want to be lonely, so they pop out children. They want someone to take care of them when they’re old, so they pop out children. They have hubris and want to pass on their shitty, or at best, mediocre genes, and pass on their family name. And what does the kid get? To grow up and do this shit to someone else.
Agreed 100%,
“And today alone, thousands of new humans are being born into a future from which opportunities are being stripped away by the very parents responsible for their birth.”
–> Could not be better said.
When i see things like this I am…disturbed. There was a grimace on my face throughout. Something about being inundated with interconnected, learning robots, screens, snow white rooms, these ultra clean cut “people” in suits etc. It’s all so clean and modern it genuinely disgusts me. That;s just not how my brain understands human life.
Then again. I’m mostly fine with the current level of tech. I like my computer and my smart phone. They are useful.
My grandparents are in their 70’s and 80’s. I wonder did they feel this way when tv and computers were emerging?
my biases incline me toward what i know and am used to. But as the video states, much of this is unavoidable.
I guess i can only sigh and try to think of a new plan for surviving in this increasingly complex world.
Sometimes i feel like there are certain people who just don’t want to be humans anymore. they want to take the accumulation of scientific knowledge and understanding of the world and just abandon their humanity all together. Take it, fly into space and never look back.
May i never live to see that day. I like having a body and doing things and living and dying and i have no interest whatsoever in evolving beyond humanity. Or even beyond this planet.
This has been going on for hundreds of years. Barbers were a much bigger deal before disposable razors. Farms used to work on a small scale because the profit and risk were pretty even. I could go on a long rant about manufacturing. The point is that as we are replaced we may soon be getting paid not to work. It is not in the best interest of society to keep so many employable and intelligent people idle and unhappy. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop and all.
Or we’ll be at each other’s throat. It will be the end of humanity. Either option works for me.
This video, I don’t know. It is what it is – a commentary on the nature of a species that is basically an evolved bunch of idiots. I sat here for a few minutes trying to compose this into something intelligent sounding, but Jesus flippin’ banana pudding with chocolate syrup on top, I’m out of intelligent for today. We’re idiots, and we need a plague to wipe us out.
Evolved? Nah, I think humans have DEVOLVED. What makes you think we’re not getting dumber with each successive generation? Think about this- who are the ones having all the kids? The smart and educated? Nope. They 1- wait till they’re finally secure / older to have children 2- have fewer children, mainly just 1 or 2. Who are popping out children like pez candy? The dumb, the uneducated, the religious nuts like the Duggars who have 19 fucking kids, the crazies like Octomom with 14 kids, people who literally have no business having kids are the ones who have the most.
Have you seen idiocracy? We’ve pretty much reached that point. The idiots outbreed the intelligent. We as a species are devolving. Just 2 minutes of the world news will tell you that. It’s only a matter of time till they start pumping gatorade into our drinking waters. Oh wait, you mean they’re already pumping lead in the cities with poor people?
Also, think about the pyramids. We can’t even replicate how the Eqyptians built those giants things, and with such accuracy. Another argument to how we USED to be smart as a species but have now devolved into the dumb shits we are today. Lemme vote to take away my rights. Oh wait… O_o