Thursday, April 06, 2006
Technology and Stupidity
Study this graph:
As you can see from the graph I just made up, as technology increases, the number of unfit people in society increases. As time goes on, the unfit receive more of the benefits of technology each year and thus the model of survival of the fittest is more thoroughly undermined each year. So, as the chart shows, technology is approaching the point at which a machine will be created that is capable of controlling the entire world, and the human species is approaching the point where the absolutely least fit person will thrive.
Therefore, I predict that the world will end when the least adapted person in the world uses the most advanced machine in the world to simplify the world so that he (I'd be gender inclusive, but we all know it'd be a guy) can understand the world and, in doing so, destroys all of the other people in the world because he can't understand them.
As you can see from the graph I just made up, as technology increases, the number of unfit people in society increases. As time goes on, the unfit receive more of the benefits of technology each year and thus the model of survival of the fittest is more thoroughly undermined each year. So, as the chart shows, technology is approaching the point at which a machine will be created that is capable of controlling the entire world, and the human species is approaching the point where the absolutely least fit person will thrive.
Therefore, I predict that the world will end when the least adapted person in the world uses the most advanced machine in the world to simplify the world so that he (I'd be gender inclusive, but we all know it'd be a guy) can understand the world and, in doing so, destroys all of the other people in the world because he can't understand them.
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Have you ever read The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series? I think that the author must postulate this kind of idea at some point. It just seems to make so much sense!
So what you're saying is that one of these days, everyone will be Too Stupid To Live?
Care to start a pool on when that might happen? My money is on next Thursday.
Care to start a pool on when that might happen? My money is on next Thursday.
Rizzle, No, I have, sadly, not read the glorious four book trilogy.
Gina, Thursday, in my estimation, is an optimistic estimate.
Gina, Thursday, in my estimation, is an optimistic estimate.
Finally some scientific evidence to suppport my theory about the machines killing us all. However, I wonder if there is some sort of variation on e=mc2 here. As stupdiity and technology both increase the likelihood of utter world destruction becomes at the same time closer and yet more improbable.
d(utter world destruction) = u(unfit people) * t(technology)2
As we approach the level of technology that would permit utter world destruction both the number of unfit people and the technological/sociological "size" of the world-to-be-destroyed would increase. And the level of increase necessary to acheive the destruction of the world could not be acheived.
d(utter world destruction) = u(unfit people) * t(technology)2
As we approach the level of technology that would permit utter world destruction both the number of unfit people and the technological/sociological "size" of the world-to-be-destroyed would increase. And the level of increase necessary to acheive the destruction of the world could not be acheived.
you know, I read this and immediately thought "Hey Ty, have you read about James? He's super paranoid (and rightfully so) about the machines taking over." And there he is. Crazy.
Ryan has been warning James about the robot conspiracy but I think that the warnings are futile. The robots can replace him and then, in his guise, start making crazy claims that destroy his credability and, thus, nullify his warnings about the Robot conspiracy.
My grandmother said the human race was doomed by the invention of the birth control pill. Becasue, according to her, educated and intellegent people would have less children and stupid people would have more and more. Thereby front loading the gene pool with stupid genes. My Granny Ruth was very wise, and also a little racist. (And by little I mean short.)
It's enought for me to consider Eugenics.
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It's enought for me to consider Eugenics.
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