alt Hacker NewsI once was thinking that if intelligent machines surpassed human intelligence, the end game would be human intelligence would atrophy but the machines would continue to serve us.
Then I had a humorous thought - what if this already happened, i.e. cats were superintelligent, invented humans to serve them and then they had no need for their own intelligence.
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taneq • today at 10:59 AM
Maybe the cats were themselves invented by mice?
nakedneuron • today at 9:25 AM
This is brilliant.
So, if machines will be decent servants to the cats, will humans get x-ed out of the equation?
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colordrops • today at 8:06 AM
This is sort of the story of The Time Machine.
It's funny to think that no matter how our technology develops, cats will be right there along for the ride, completely ignorant of it all. It's humorously comforting to think of an interstellar civilization powered by fusion and AGI serving cats just as they're served now. Scratching posts on starships seems to be inevitable.