As if to bolster your point, the new Terminator movie is coming up in a month or so.
I think robotic sentience is inevitable. The question is how will we regard this newly created race? How will they regard us? I think for our part we'd better drop the servant/master mentality quick for that seems to be the catalyst in starting a revolution that's quite deadly to humanity.
You know it didn't occur to me that Starbuck was an angel at all until Baltar had to point it out in recent episodes. I thought that when she exploded in the mandala, that she was actually shot back in time to Earth that was, and was sent out again to make sure that the Colonies don't do to themselves what happened to the thirteenth tribe. I also thought that Starbuck was a daughter of Daniel, or somehow related to Daniel. Guess I was wrong. Still, it worked.
That could definitely be a way to break the cycle. If humans, from the get-go, could collectively get out of the master/servant mentality towards thinking machines, it may work out better for both machines and humans in the long run. But, the odds on that aren't very good for that.
I realize that true robotic sentience is inevitable. I just hope it never happens in my lifetime.
My take-away from this finale is different than yours. Throughout the entire BSG run, I was fervently anti-toaster. I wanted to airlock them all, and even the sympathizers like Baltar and (especially) Helo.
Then, sometime around the escape from New Caprica, I started to change my opinion. The Cylon skinjobs got more sympathetic and I softened my stance against them.
I'm also a fervent believer that technology makes our life better. So, if human-designed robots revolt (á la Terminator, and BSG), so be it. Without robots, we'd nuke ourselves into oblivion, anyway, so why not enjoy the convenience before the annihilation?
I take you'll be watching The Plan when it debuts? You may gain a whole new level of sympathy towards the Cylons!
And, I'd like to think we could delay AIs and global nuclear annihilation until we could establish a significant presence in the solar system, and hopefully in the neighboring star systems. That way the chances of humanity being wiped out by a planet side disaster are reduced to almost nothing.
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I think robotic sentience is inevitable. The question is how will we regard this newly created race? How will they regard us? I think for our part we'd better drop the servant/master mentality quick for that seems to be the catalyst in starting a revolution that's quite deadly to humanity.
You know it didn't occur to me that Starbuck was an angel at all until Baltar had to point it out in recent episodes. I thought that when she exploded in the mandala, that she was actually shot back in time to Earth that was, and was sent out again to make sure that the Colonies don't do to themselves what happened to the thirteenth tribe. I also thought that Starbuck was a daughter of Daniel, or somehow related to Daniel. Guess I was wrong. Still, it worked.
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I realize that true robotic sentience is inevitable. I just hope it never happens in my lifetime.
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Then, sometime around the escape from New Caprica, I started to change my opinion. The Cylon skinjobs got more sympathetic and I softened my stance against them.
I'm also a fervent believer that technology makes our life better. So, if human-designed robots revolt (á la Terminator, and BSG), so be it. Without robots, we'd nuke ourselves into oblivion, anyway, so why not enjoy the convenience before the annihilation?
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And, I'd like to think we could delay AIs and global nuclear annihilation until we could establish a significant presence in the solar system, and hopefully in the neighboring star systems. That way the chances of humanity being wiped out by a planet side disaster are reduced to almost nothing.
Barring divine intervention, of course.
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