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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by Gravityloss on Saturday June 20, 2015 @08:20AM (#9749784)
At some point we must get rid of all the humans on earth to keep up economic growth.

Not entirely joking.

Since companies are legal entities and can be run by algorithms, then it's possible that such non-human companies end up with all the capital and all the power. Of course nations and legal systems will also be automatized, with maximum growth as the objective. Then the algorithms can just starve people to death in a legal way.

Though human controlled companies weren't necessarily that humane so far either. At least they would try to keep the owners alive...

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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by jchrisa on Saturday June 20, 2015 @09:25AM (#9749899)
Here is that train of thought pushed out a few hundred years http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by eli_gottlieb on Saturday June 20, 2015 @05:46PM (#9751140)
Of course, we could just not take capital accumulation to be the sole determining imperative for everything that happens in the universe. I mean, it sort of is a blinkered, pointless perspective, from that ultimate view.
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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by ep103 on Saturday June 20, 2015 @01:07PM (#9750433)
Iain M Bank's culture novels are predicated on this, as an aside.
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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by Ygg2 on Saturday June 20, 2015 @09:22AM (#9749890) 

  >  At some point we must get rid of all the humans on earth to keep up economic growth.
Sure, but first we need at least few colonies to move to.
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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by toomuchtodo on Saturday June 20, 2015 @01:54PM (#9750557)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Colonial_Transporter
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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by ZenoArrow on Saturday June 20, 2015 @09:29AM (#9749910)
Why does trade require growth?
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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by fwn on Saturday June 20, 2015 @04:17PM (#9750920)
It doesn't. But trade requires calm politicans. Those aren't calm if people aren't calm. And people aren't calm the moment TVs don't get bigger anymore. That's what makes them angry.
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Re:Humans Who Dream Of Companies That Won't Need Us by alttab on Saturday June 20, 2015 @02:41PM (#9750682)
Symbiotic. Growth requires trade as well.
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