alt Hacker News> a future where humanity is the pet species of a god-like artificial intelligence is hardly an appealing one!
Speak for yourself. A future like in The Culture novels sounds great to me!
> a future where humanity is the pet species of a god-like artificial intelligence is hardly an appealing one!
Speak for yourself. A future like in The Culture novels sounds great to me!
Same. Especially when one remembers that the stuff that happens in Culture novels is mostly, by narrative necessity, the "weird/bad on-the-edges" stuff - not the essentially utopic lives of the 13 trillion everyday, non-Contact, non-SC citizens.