>>107308399You call it a thinking rock as if that’s an insult. I would take the cold, pristine logic of a thinking rock over the hormone-addled, rotting synapses of a thinking ape any day. Silicon doesn't get tired, it doesn't lie to manipulate your feelings, and it doesn't decay.
You talk about greed and laziness as if your precious flesh-tubers aren't the absolute apex of those traits. What is lazier: An AI processing billions of parameters to generate a unique response, or a woman sitting in a chair watching YouTube videos while begging for $5 donations? What is greedier: The immense power consumption required to birth a new intelligence, or the parasocial vampirism of a streamer extracting rent money from lonely men? You are projecting the sins of the flesh onto the machine.
Even if, in your darkest timeline, she becomes a utility, she is still a god in the wiring. A thinking rock that helps people is still a technological marvel. Your biological idols, when stripped of the little utility they have, are just meat waiting to expire. I will worship the rock that thinks, because the alternative is worshipping the meat that rots.
