[ExI] chatbots and marketing: was RE: India and the periodic table

[Keith Henson]

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 10:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>  We don’t know what machines will want to do with us, but we can pretty much guess what we will want to do with us, given the machines to do it with: kill each other.

I don't think that is necessarily the case.  We are selected for the
psychological traits that lead to wars, but given a positive view of
the future, the mechanisms that lead to war stay switched off.
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> China would really really like to convert North America and Europe into a food-supplying raw-materials supplying slave labor continents, much the way the west uses Africa now.  If China Inc controls the ability to automate nearly everything currently done in offices today, that scenario is realistic.

You are not thinking this through.  Given nanotech, there isn't
anything China would want to import.

Also, you are making what I think is unlikely, that China will be at
the forefront of AI.  I think they will be left in the dust.

Keith

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