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[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

That sounds like slaves with extra steps, so that tracks with my thoughts.

Tho that seems like a massively dystopian waste of resources when they could just build robots, which surely they will be able to do if they can reanimate humans.

So yeah, that’s likely.

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Humans are easier to indoctrinate than sapient robots, because human biases are predictable.

Fascist politician: the Jews are stealing your money to cause the downfall of your race! They're even breeding your children with black people to destroy you!

Human reaction: yeah, that makes sense

Robot reaction: ...why tho?

Robots may still have biases, but they probably won't be exactly the same as a human's. I doubt a robot would care for a "think of the children" argument

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