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Anonymous File :-(, x)
I was just thinking about this (the Butlerian Jihad and thinking machines, even).
Honestly, we're already halfway there. Look at how easy our lives are compared with the lives human bodies and minds were designed for. We had to bust our asses to even stay alive, much less be fit. Now, our lives are so easy and free of physical labor that we go to gyms and run in place like gerbils on a treadmill. We lift weights in order to simulate the backbreaking labor most of us no longer have to do.
If you watched John Adams on HBO, you saw that a mere 200 years ago, surgery was like getting tortured. Now we have anesthesia that makes the whole thing like a dream and laproscopic surgery that leaves a tiny scar for a major operation.
To say that we're weaker and softer than people back then is an understatement. And that's barely even counting the VERY recent social advances and rights that women/minorities enjoy.
The idea of living without your robot servants, your brainstem internet and your PlayStation89 will seem just as barbaric to our descendants as living in a cave does to us. Our lives will be so boring and so devoid of challenge that we will either have to invent it with ever more complex games/simulations or grow so stupid and complacent that we don't miss it.
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