>>11712090>flash memory does not degrade so long as it has a source of power, and even then, it takes tens of thousands of years to degrade said memory.Flash memory has not been around for tens of thousands of years, so you can't possibly know that.
Its like when people said to buy new LED lightbulbs because they should last 100s of years, but half the LED lightbulbs you buy die within two years.
>>11712598>man-machine hybrids belong will have no need for such human weaknesses as love, compassion, ethical feelings, esthetic appreciation, or desire for freedom. Human emotions in general will get in the way of the self-prop systems> if the latter are to remain competitive they will have to be altered to remove their human emotionIsn't being competitive and feeling victory a useless human emotion by the previous standards? If they don't need physical or emotional sustenance, what would drive them to compete or even act at all? Why strip them of all their good emotions like empathy, but none of the bad emotions like warmongering?
>>11712624>the machines will only need to outperform them in making the technical decisions that have to be made for the purpose of promoting the short-term survival and propagation of the dominant self-prop systemsAgain survival, desire for reproduction, and domination are human emotions that digital machines wouldn't need since they could just simulate everything internally and don't require any external sensors to interact with most aspects of reality.
