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Re:Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000) by pmoriarty on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:48PM (#16851630)
"I see no reason that humanity is worth saving over some other, better form of life. I'm not saying its ethical to mow down innocents to make way for the next generation, but some humans are pretty fucking awful. If our descendants are robots with the intelligence of Hawking and are full of kindness and grace then why should we insist that humanity exist forever?"

If any beings exterminated humanity or through inaction allowed it to go extinct, I'd seriously question their kindness.

Truly kind beings would bring humanity along and help us to be less destructive.

Re:Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000) by BLKNSLVR on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:28AM (#16855730)
Depends on where their loyalty of kindness lies. Were its kindness 'programmed' to be the preservation of the most life at the expense of the least, then human extermination would be the lowest of the low-hanging fruit.

Keep breeding stock, but then you get into adjudication of value, and at that point all I can think of is Dr. Manhattan saying "the world's smartest human is no more threat to me than the world's smartest termite".