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Old 06-19-2020, 02:31 AM   #83 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Elon Musk is on the case, with Neuralink.
We invent machines to tend to menial tasks so we can focus on more interesting things. Since we're adaptive by nature, a larger and larger portion of life becomes menial as we increasingly leverage technology.

The interesting subject is what happens when the most interesting thing we can concern ourselves with is a menial task to our machines?

If there's no point in bothering ourselves over anything, then what's the point of hanging around?

#futureproblems
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