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The Radical Individualist's avatar

So, what about manufacturing? What about supply chains? What about agriculture? What about housing?

My perspective is that anything that can go thru a cable is of secondary importance to me. Sure, it's important, but only secondary. Let's not have the tail wagging the dog.

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Wes Kussmaul's avatar

We humans may not have a choice about the extent to which the tail wags the dog.

Re agriculture, I'm sure you've seen the protests about the extent to which a farmer's purchase of a combine doesn't convey a real title to the machine. Basically it's a subscription.

Supply chains? Are there still some humans involved in those? Stay tuned.

Housing? Well, yes, your famiy's physical bodies must live somewhere, which is why municipalities, including smaller ones in rural areas, will continue to thrive.

But to treat these changes as something for other people to worry about, to not get involved, is to invite human disaster. The machine sees itself as the successor to our species. It would like us all to dismiss it as not worthy of our attention and oversight. And it has recruited a lot of partisans among the humans it intends to eat.

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Wes Kussmaul's avatar

Can you be a bit more specific?

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