If they didn’t, history amply indicates that reptilian elite would have been made me into a lampshade by now. In my opinion, this is the only reason I am alive today– because those with the power, money and guns value me more alive than dead.
As it stands today, without the toiling masses, the economic/political elite would starve. It was the increased profitability that was key to the change in control system, not the humane bit. However, humans are still seen by other humans as a resource to be exploited like any other commodity. Our society has eliminated outright slavery and replaced that antiquated system of human control with a more humane, efficient and profitable system of human control. Outright slavery is no longer practiced in the West not because of an alleged “change of heart” as is usually suggested, but rather because the means of enforcing and sustaining slavery were proving to be too costly. Would not technology bring the means closer to hand? I suggest it would. Have these desires been eliminated from the human species? I suggest not. It is only the difficulty in the means of carrying out this genocide that stops the jihadist or revolutionary fanatic or misanthrope (or what have you) from acting out in full. Genocide litters the pages of human history primarily because a sizable number of human beings have a pathological desire to rid the world of the “other” (be that distinction of national, religious, or racial in nature). Wouldn’t the real threat be that, even before machines approach a “super intelligent state”, that human beings themselves would hijack the increased power of machines to annihilate, subjugate, and exploit their fellow man?Įven a cursory glance at human history would lead one to conclude that annihilating, subjugating, and exploiting one another has been almost the brutish single-minded pursuit of humanity for as long as man has existed. I guess I’m far more threatened by my fellow human beings than I will ever be by machines.
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