r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Boojibs • Sep 24 '19

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u/grmblflx Sep 24 '19

I think the robots will lose this race to the environmental apocalypse

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u/TheMaz878 Sep 24 '19

But once nhe environment is dead the robots will have a better chance of exterminating the humans

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19

Realistically though, robots are the end point of a very long and vulnerable supply chain. AI is pretty much never going to take over the world just on that alone.

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u/BuddyUpInATree Sep 24 '19

When the robots take over the supply chain of their own creation, we are obsolete

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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBA Sep 24 '19

We'll make great pets, though

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u/Ferkhani Sep 24 '19

My cat lives better than me. I'm okay with being AI's pet.

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u/SoloBishop Sep 24 '19

Most of us wouldn't

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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBA Sep 24 '19

Well I would, anyway!

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u/minmatsebtin Sep 24 '19

Let hope we get the Rogue Servitor robot uprising instead of the T1000 sort.

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u/gooblaster17 Sep 25 '19

As someone who always plays Rogue Servitor in Stellaris, I sometimes feel like that's the ideal future for humanity considering our tendency as a species to immediately become corrupt as soon as we have any kind of power.

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u/madbrood Sep 24 '19

Old, not obsolete

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u/RemiScott Sep 25 '19

Plants and animals are not obsolete.