[extropy-chat] pest-devouring automaton

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:23:25PM -0800, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> As has been pointed out, these robots don't hunt -

What, they can't hunt? A remote exploit there, a 
code patch here, here ya go. 

That's just what we need, agribots2predator worms.

> and besides, their food sources aren't quite the same
> as ours.

Oh yeah, that makes me feel completely safe already.
 
> But putting those aside for the moment...if they did
> evolve to "compete" with us for food, then most likely

How about you being their food?

> what would happen is the same thing that's happened as
> more and more humans have "competed" for food over

But robots are not animals.

> time: new sources of food and new technology drive
> supply up to meet the demand, resulting in lower costs
> for any given person to acquire the food they need,
> and better quality food.  Some of the effort to
> establish that will likely be supplied by the new
> "competitors", whose primary motivation - being fed -
> doesn't actually demand that all competitors suffer.
> (In fact, the smarter ones will likely realize that
> having many many food sources out there means that
> much more of a chance that its own ration of food will
> be available to it - even if it also means that
> everyone else can also eat.)

And, verily, the lion laith down with the lamb.

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