This web site is an attempt to understand where technology is leading the Earth and its
inhabitants.
First, let us look at the definition of technology:
From: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technology?rdfrom=Technology
discuss physics and some engineering subjects, their main concentration is on biological systems.
Biological systems were designed by Random Variation and Natural Selection and robots are designed
by Intelligent Designers, called Engineers. Human scientists have become impatient with the speed of
Natural Selection and have taken it upon themselves to use Intelligent Design to improve biological
devices.
Peter Cochrane and others have suggested that humans are a technology, but the problem is that
humans didn't come with a service manual or clear manufacturing instructions. The manufacturing
Information contained in DNA molecules is coded in a fashion which makes them quite unclear and
confusing. In fact, since we don't have a set of manufacturing documents, we could not manufacture a
human in a manner similar to manufacturing a robot.
This is slowly changing, however because we are studying how the human mind works and it appears
that someday we will know enough to duplicate important functions such as those which lead to
intelligent thinking.
So, what happens when we are finally faced with a robot whose brain is comparable to a human brain?
Now that we are picturing two similar pieces of "technology", let us focus on the main difference between
these two items. The human contains a sex drive to manufacture more humans whereas a robot need
not have such a desire to reproduce. The closest thing to a human "factory" is a human female. Since
it takes so much time and effort to form a marriage and raise a family, it hardly seems likely that such a
procedure will remain attractive in a logical or practical sense. By comparison, once we have made one
robot, the second robot will be able to be manufactured at a just-in-time facility such as an automobile
production line. One would guess that a universal humanoid robot with an IQ of 100 would quickly
replace human laborers in many industries. The logic of this is one of the reasons why we see Japan's
human population decline and robot population increase.
This all makes sense to me, but here is where so many humans seem to be thinking irrationally. Take
the following four areas of modern concern:
- Species extinction.
- Global warming.
- Humans living on the moon.
- 47 Trillion dollars underfunded obligations to Medicare and Social Security
Species extinction If the new dominant creatures on Earth are robots and if robots aren't organic,
why should they care about organic species extinction? A robot would see new items in the store and
remark that there are new species of inorganic items being created every day. From a robot's
perspective, there is species expansion, not extinction. A robot might collect Beanie Babies so that they
won't go "extinct", but why would they concern themselves with the extinction of a "snail darter"? Makes
absolutely no sense to me that a robot would care.
Global warming Global warming becomes a joke. The robot doesn't have to worry about growing food,
fishing for fish, killing whales or any other such nonsense. Why even debate whether the earth will be
hotter in 100 years or not. I am sure that it won't bother the robots either way.
Humans living on the moon As far as humans living on the moon or on Mars, this too seems silly.
Humans are designed to live on the Earth and robots can be designed to be compatible with living on
the Moon. In fact, from the perspective of a robot, Mars is already inhabited by a couple of "living" Mars
rover robots.
47 Trillion dollars underfunded obligations to Medicare and Social Security Let us consider two
cases. If humans are allowed to live, how else can we afford to take care of them unless we develop
inexpensive robotic slaves. If humans are to go the way of the Neanderthal, then why worry about the
underfunded obligations. Soylent Green, as they say.
Since the vast majority of humans seem to think irrationally about the future, my conclusion is that most
humans do not display rational intelligent thought.
Please explain how the common concerns of humans make any sense at all.
email your responses to DaFacxt@gmail.com
Thank you,
Next
inhabitants.
First, let us look at the definition of technology:
From: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technology?rdfrom=Technology
- technology (countable and uncountable; plural technologies)
(uncountable) the study of or a collection of techniques.
(countable) a particular technological concept
the body of tools and other implements produced by a given society.
discuss physics and some engineering subjects, their main concentration is on biological systems.
Biological systems were designed by Random Variation and Natural Selection and robots are designed
by Intelligent Designers, called Engineers. Human scientists have become impatient with the speed of
Natural Selection and have taken it upon themselves to use Intelligent Design to improve biological
devices.
Peter Cochrane and others have suggested that humans are a technology, but the problem is that
humans didn't come with a service manual or clear manufacturing instructions. The manufacturing
Information contained in DNA molecules is coded in a fashion which makes them quite unclear and
confusing. In fact, since we don't have a set of manufacturing documents, we could not manufacture a
human in a manner similar to manufacturing a robot.
This is slowly changing, however because we are studying how the human mind works and it appears
that someday we will know enough to duplicate important functions such as those which lead to
intelligent thinking.
So, what happens when we are finally faced with a robot whose brain is comparable to a human brain?
Now that we are picturing two similar pieces of "technology", let us focus on the main difference between
these two items. The human contains a sex drive to manufacture more humans whereas a robot need
not have such a desire to reproduce. The closest thing to a human "factory" is a human female. Since
it takes so much time and effort to form a marriage and raise a family, it hardly seems likely that such a
procedure will remain attractive in a logical or practical sense. By comparison, once we have made one
robot, the second robot will be able to be manufactured at a just-in-time facility such as an automobile
production line. One would guess that a universal humanoid robot with an IQ of 100 would quickly
replace human laborers in many industries. The logic of this is one of the reasons why we see Japan's
human population decline and robot population increase.
This all makes sense to me, but here is where so many humans seem to be thinking irrationally. Take
the following four areas of modern concern:
- Species extinction.
- Global warming.
- Humans living on the moon.
- 47 Trillion dollars underfunded obligations to Medicare and Social Security
Species extinction If the new dominant creatures on Earth are robots and if robots aren't organic,
why should they care about organic species extinction? A robot would see new items in the store and
remark that there are new species of inorganic items being created every day. From a robot's
perspective, there is species expansion, not extinction. A robot might collect Beanie Babies so that they
won't go "extinct", but why would they concern themselves with the extinction of a "snail darter"? Makes
absolutely no sense to me that a robot would care.
Global warming Global warming becomes a joke. The robot doesn't have to worry about growing food,
fishing for fish, killing whales or any other such nonsense. Why even debate whether the earth will be
hotter in 100 years or not. I am sure that it won't bother the robots either way.
Humans living on the moon As far as humans living on the moon or on Mars, this too seems silly.
Humans are designed to live on the Earth and robots can be designed to be compatible with living on
the Moon. In fact, from the perspective of a robot, Mars is already inhabited by a couple of "living" Mars
rover robots.
47 Trillion dollars underfunded obligations to Medicare and Social Security Let us consider two
cases. If humans are allowed to live, how else can we afford to take care of them unless we develop
inexpensive robotic slaves. If humans are to go the way of the Neanderthal, then why worry about the
underfunded obligations. Soylent Green, as they say.
Since the vast majority of humans seem to think irrationally about the future, my conclusion is that most
humans do not display rational intelligent thought.
Please explain how the common concerns of humans make any sense at all.
email your responses to DaFacxt@gmail.com
Thank you,
Next
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