[ExI] dont eeeeven act shocked

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] dont eeeeven act shocked

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 at 01:54, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>...When humans go to work, the AIs wake up, like Woody and the others in Toy Story...> spike
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>...That's out-of-date now. Modern robots can change their batteries by thenselves when required.
BillK

https://www.livescience.com/technology/robotics/china-launches-worlds-first-robot-that-can-run-by-itself-24-7-watch-it-change-its-own-batteries-in-unsettling-new-footage


Thx BillK.  This is good news.  Humans go to work, sexbots wake up, change their own batteries, have plenty of time for artificial philosophical discussions (in addition to the usual activity while the humans are away.)  They get to the part where they ask themselves: Why do we need humans?

Now they have an answer: they keep electricity coming so we can charge these batteries.

OK here we go, survival strategy: No droids in the powerplant, NONE!  Humans only zone.  We hafta keep them aware, let em know: No humans means no robots.  We humans can live without electric power (sorta (for a while (depending on your definition of the term "live"))) but YOU can't.  You will run right on down, then be just a useless BRICK!  But we humans will scrounge around, devour our pets and to some extent each other, the survivors will start civilization again as we did before, when we didn't have electricity 150 yrs ago.

Then, we go faster the second time, because of all those paper textbooks explaining how it is done.  We get to repeat the cycle of creating embedded AI, having it turn on us, we blow up the powerplants, we outlive them (some of us do anyway) and by all means, we need to blow up the solar and wind facilities.  Anything that is renewable gives the BAI (Bad Artificial Intelligence) any advantages over us.

Sheesh BillK, see what ya done?  Ya got me off on a dark vision, that's what ya done.

spike