Those who answer the question whether machines will completely replace all human beings with YES also say that the elites will be replaced, if they say elites will be human beings when it comes to replace them. All human beings! Completely replaced!
I think a wait and see attitude to give ample time for the benefit of doubt, that perhaps someone(s) between the two extremes of majority and minority positions, even be it 1%, is perhaps not entirely dismissible. It is sometimes the unexpected, the least likely odd event, that usually turns things around to the desired benefit of the majority. Let’s not get carried away by seemingly inconsistent changes of opinion, until all the chips, well most, are in.
Except, it's never really to late to choose. What is too late? Where is the line to be drawn? It may be too late from the very beginning.............but, who is to say that should bar at least a modicum of faith based hope to turn things around?
Really?
Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you could go back, maintaining your knowledge, and live it again? = “too late”.
Children are raised poorly and do stupid things - “too late” to raise them better.
Adults misunderstand and do stupid things, permanent social record = “too late”.
Blinded suicide victims arrange for their own deaths; pills, rooftops, bridges = “too late”.
Presidents attack other countries. The war is on = “too late” to prevent it.
Politicians make false claims and tell lies to the public = “too late” to ever be trusted again.
People get hypnotized by lusts, such as drugs or world conquering ambitions = “too late” to take a wiser road.
Humans replace humans with a race of androids = “too late” to save the species.
James: Erasmus wouldn’t have succeeded with the enlightenment, had he given up on the horrible plague of the dark ages. Hiroshima lost millions, and yet one baby, surviving still merits continuation. Hiroshima today is doing well today, excepting the grim reminders. It is life’s wonder to discount numberless casualties in favor of those lucky few, who may carry on to seek a better world. And goes with mechanization, hopefully it will carry on to the benefit of those still having a hopefully bright future.
I see. So your idea of “continuing” and “not too late” is that an associated name or national name continued and can possibly change at some point in the future, regardless of all of the death and suffering of the entire generations along the way? As long as something continues, then it isn’t “too late”? I have to ask, “Too late for what?”
Here are two indicators, the second more serious, concerning things that it is too late to change;
For exactly the same reason citizens should not be allowed to freely use hard drugs (Heroin, Opium, Cocaine,…), governments should not be allowed to use Technology.
And what happens when you try to take a drug away from a drug addict?
The same thing that happens when you even hint at taking technology (especially surveillance) away from a government.
But that should not take away from the slight chance that the effort will succeed. Life relentlessly, even against insurmountable odds, manages to survive. Of course, only the fittest can be up to this. The few Greeks who held up the hordes of Persian invaders, sure, died, but have given us a model of how the will to succeed can overwhelm even the most uneven of contests.