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Exactly. The person or people above him who wanted AI to be used against his will will ultimately achieve their goals---no matter what his beliefs are. At the end of the day, his views of humanism are futile against the force of those in favor of AI acceptance.


I can remember a time when the Borg's famous catchphrase was understood to be the kind of thing that only the bad guys would say.

I remember a time when we had to go back in time to get a whale so that machines and animals could coexist.

And I also remember that even in that case resistance was in fact not futile in the end.



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