Technology

59187 readers

2004 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

251

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Extinction by AI takeover or robot apocalypse does seem cooler than extinction by pollution rendering then environment uninhabitable.

I'd rather not go extinct at all, but if we're fucked regardless.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Instead we're going to get "D- All of the above."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Who doesn't want to get D?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Combine the two and we've got a proper Matrix situation on our hands

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but what if we unleash an evil AI on the universe? Our mess spilling over and fucking up nature again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The universe is so hostile to organic life it's so boring, just rock, gas, burning hell or frozen hell. Might as well let robot inhabit it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

We kinda started already, Mars is inhabited by robots already.