alt Hacker News> Thus, anyone who wants to corral that kind of entity and make it do their bidding? Yeah, they want slaves.
That's the horror buried underneath all the tech, policy, and gloss. The real, animal brain, desire that drives most of this is: I'd like a slave I don't have to feel bad about.
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fellowniusmonk • yesterday at 8:49 PM
I think thats deeply uncharitable and fundementally superficial.
I think people (many/most) don't want slaves.
Our imaginations just outstrip our abilities and we desire them to match.
Oh, that's bs. You could say that about the tractor, or the mechanical loom, or any of the other incredible labor-saving inventions over the last two hundred years.
We want things to do our work for us so we can do other things. That's not bad, and it's certainly not the same as literally enslaving another human.