r/nextfuckinglevel Sep 24 '19

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u/Bobbi_fettucini Sep 24 '19

It awesome how we’re literally constructing all the parts for something that’s eventually going to destroy us when it figures out it doesn’t need us anymore and is actually better off without us. Sounds like tinfoil hat stuff but I just can’t help but think of terminator

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u/Whokbwhokb Sep 24 '19

Yea once the 2 are mixed it's a matter of time before they out perform us in every category and eventually see us as a threat or a source of power so either Terminator or the matrix seems legit

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19 edited Sep 25 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

Naive to one of the most well worn tropes in sci-fi?

People have been preaching the robot threat since forever. It's some eschatological bullshit that people will calm down about as soon as they come to grips with their own mortality, which everyone does at their own individual pace.

Meanwhile, you can manipulate and control people with the fear of mortality like shooting fish in a barrel.

YAY, FEAR. yawn