Would it be worse to be governed and dominated by an AI, rather than a human?
The human faciality atlas coordination protocol of orienting via the body of another like organism as resemblance forms new like machine-organisms or capital mapping out territories of various bizarre formations to orient the will to chance, will to power, will to death drive sacrifices to humanity's theme park in various other abramelin demonology experiments reaching countless casualties in the process. Is it really that different?
I stated in Dragoon's thread titled....I'm Happy About Ai...I mention how Ai has a dark side, and included it's energy consumption and what it'll mean for jobs.
How all great things are great on both polarities.
As for cooling, it'll use a lot of fresh water, though water does self recycle. Will it dry up an entire lake ? Doubt it. Some water will saturate and fall from the sky.
Do I like Ai ? Yes. I think X-Ai plans on building a data center in space. Probably cause it's cold. That would slash environmental concerns so complainers can give the tree hugging a break. For now hydro electric would be best.
Judging by your history, it doesn't surprise me you'll focus on the bleak side of the matter.
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As for the separation of Church and State, we're talking about the US here. A secular Republic with Christian inspired laws.
Is the Church separated from the states ? I'd say that depends on who's in power. If it's there or not wouldn't change anything.
I said not long ago how Atheism is a faith too. Based on doubt and how the laws of physics were violated just once to create energy space and matter from absolute nothing, no time no space.
The atheist can be an atheist in a Christian inspired nation, with laws to practice whatever faith you want. You probably want that freedom gone though.
There are athiests that recognize great wisdom in scriptures. Values and principals that are sound. Some don't see it that way, while showcasing no alternatives.
Yes it's possible to draw water from the ocean when the other bodies of water become less accessible and defactoring salt from the process to slow down the effect of its deterioration on the hardware in the data centers after the desaturation harvesting method of the sky and maybe whatever AI space renaissance build a new sun before the natural sun accelerates the decimation of the planets water supply, possibly prolonging this effort to build more data centers and maximization of their lifespan with environmental control mechanisms to deposit thicker ozone layers to protect during the process. Fusion powered data centers, anti-matter powered data centers. Machinic mining of all possible space resources. Build floating satellites of matrioshka data centers as containment layers of mega-structures within megastructures of chains of dyson spheres to absorb the excess energy of the underlying layer of the data-center connected to the energy of the other solar dyson swarm megastructure sun-prison and maxing out the energy requirement solar purgatory for as long as possible to prolong the lifespan of the natural sun before a new sun can be manufactured or found. And if this is feasible, mankind can avoid getting utilized for energy expenditure by the AI maximizing energy deficit negation for as long as possible...
Political rivalry over the decaying wasteland of the Cathedral for installing moral highground sympathies is never-ending. and an atheist's confession often masquerades confession for sins of civilization whether responsible or not with expressions of sympathy which are masks that we must wear for atonement in response to the plight of anything less fortunate than anything else, whether feigned or not. This is likely due to being so disembodied from rudimentary tribalistic predator/prey dynamics, the basic elements of the survival apparatus still sprawling out like preternatural disembodied limbs of various stifled expressions like a carcophany of buzzing detriment feeding directly into the information warfare scene conjuring manufactured expressions of guilt and sentiment, horror on que and permanant crisis actor syndrome, with the church acting as a mild buffer. A civil state which has not done away with the causes of seditions, where war is a perpetual object of fear, where laws are often broken, differs little from the mere state of nature, in which everyone lives after his own mind at the greater risk of his life. I think suffering minimizing consequentialist ethics can help make this less caustic i.e. reduce suffering.
