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TreasonousBastard

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8. The planet will never become uninhabitable for us...

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 10:54 AM

Mar 2013

although it will undoubtedly become uninhabitable for other species. Whatever we do to the planet, we will be able to carve out places suitable for our needs.

This is not to say the planet will be pleasant to live in-- science fiction is rife with dim futures of us living in bubbles, or worse.

I don't see any time in the near future when machines will become sentient, but robots and machines have already reduced the work force from much manual labor in mining, farming, etc., to skilled labor machine shops and auto plants. But, take over? No.

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When robots become fully autonomous and humans are expendable...... [View all] rhett o rick Mar 2013 OP

I think we're a ways away from ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #1

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So are you saying that robots will never take over? rhett o rick Mar 2013 #3

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Take all the time you want. rhett o rick Mar 2013 #5

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humanity as a resource becomes a quantity or yes/no value tiny elvis Mar 2013 #7

The planet will never become uninhabitable for us... TreasonousBastard Mar 2013 #8

yes, I think that we will move and adapt to the enviroment although there may be areas that Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #9

Humans may cease to exist as we become robots Dash87 Apr 2013 #10

We will give the robots more and more intellegence that at some point rhett o rick Apr 2013 #11