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Re:The Loss of Humanity through Consumerism in WALL-E (2019)... by goatlover on Sunday February 12, 2023 @01:44PM (#34765540)
Why would the AI care? As long as humans are being serviced effectively. There’s nothing necessitating a value judgement for an AI.
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Re:The Loss of Humanity through Consumerism in WALL-E (2019)... by notmindthegap on Sunday February 12, 2023 @02:11PM (#34765794)
From an efficiency standpoint, we all-consuming non-producing entities would be an unnecessary cost to the system.
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Re:The Loss of Humanity through Consumerism in WALL-E (2019)... by PhasmaFelis on Sunday February 12, 2023 @02:33PM (#34766038)
Efficiency of what? The system exists solely to care for humans. A farm would have much lower expenses if you didn't grow anything and sold all the land, but then it wouldn't be a farm anymore.
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