Ships without crew set for the seas

The Local Europe AB ^ | September 11, 2014

[Talisker]

Eliminate the humans, eliminate their errors.

As I pointed out, humans aren't out of the loop - they're just taken away from the scene and made unable to interact with any problems that arise.

Then of course there's that freedom thing, the world run by faceless people running automated programs "for safety."

I also pointed out how your "final solutions" heavily involve "getting rid of the humans."

Historically, a lot of people have shared your "vision," with pretty much unanimous results. And they've all used that "will to power" type of speech like you do - "A lot of people not only see this as doable, we understand that it is inevitable and will be happening very soon."

Inevitable is a big word, you might say a historically big word. You prepared to crack a few eggs to make your omelette? Something tells me you are.

[discostu]

For now. Eventually they will be. Because they’re the real problem that arises.

Still plenty of freedom with autonomous vehicles. You get the additional freedom of not actually having to control the vehicle, all holidays are busman’s holidays.

Kind of a pathetic strawman there on the getting rid of humans. Obviously I wasn’t talking about killing them, just getting them out of the control loop.

Inevitable isn’t that big a word. One just needs to look at the progress of technology. Self operating vehicles are right around the corner. Heck in the mining industry they already exist, all that’s happening now is improving the technology to the point where it can deal with randomness, and it’s getting there. Not gonna have to crack any eggs. This transition will happen voluntarily, because it heightens convenience and improves the standard of living. The same forces that have driven the technological adoption since the first week of the industrial revolution.