Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 26/01/2025 02:24, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

As for the "thin layer of technocrats" mentioned below,
   won't need to BE any within maybe 50 years or so - the
   "AI" will manage everything. This is the monster we
   have made .......
 

Ah, but what happens when the AI fails?
I think we are more tending towards the Morlock/Eloi duality.
The pampered sons and daughters of the days randon 'Slebs' will wander around in a paradise blissfully unaware of who or what maintains  the world that they exist in so indolently
Or perhaps it will resemble Mick Farren's imagined world (see the Quest of the DNA Cowboys, et el) a surrealistic landscape where you can order anything through the internet from Stuff Central, the only downside being that some sort of machines are eating away at the fabric of reality itself to make it for you...
Or perhaps it will all simply collapse back into barbarism. As the fact that we have created a civilisation  which  its average human product is now both utterly dependent on, yet has absolutely no idea how to build or maintain.
CF Joseph Tainter.
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de M. de Voltaire