Reply #117: see, he wants a world of self replicating machines.

[Javaman]

we build the first one, and away we go!!! LOL

The problem is this with that moronic theory, other than making exact copies of itself, how does the robot know what type of robot to produce for demand? It doesn't that's were humans come in.

I think kelly wishes for a world like in the movie Wall-E where we humans become fat tubs of lard skating around sleds drinking giant slurpies. LOL While our every whim is taken care of by a robot of one sort of another.

The problem with Kelly's concept is so laughable.

So suppose we create such a master machine that makes all the robots we need to do everything we need. Two things arise, one we need an endless amount of materials to supply this machine so it would keep producing. Because, if it thinks on it's own and knows what robots to make, then it will demand material from us to make those robots. The second is, if it keeps demanding materials, that would mean it is self aware and that means, we become its slave to keep it going.

so many sci-fi writers have postulated on just this scenario hundreds of times and it always ends up with the same conclusion. We become its slave. Or aka slave to technology.