Gotta be honest, I thought that was the reason.
Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 1 week ago
benefit humanity as a whole
The Borg from Star Trek fills that requirement. My headcanon is that the people from its home planet made an AGI with the given goal of “benefiting humanity as a whole”, and it maximised that goal by building the Borg - making humanity as a whole by connecting them to a hive mind and forcibly assimilating all other species to benefit humanity as a whole.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 1 week ago
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I heard someone report Thiel talking about something similar to this, but I could have misunderstood. Either way, listening to him speak; he definitely is cuckoo bananas.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 6 days ago
So can we expect ChatGPT to become a shareholder hive mind then?
karashta@piefed.social 1 week ago
Oh what a cool take!
I always liked to think of the Borg as being almost more like an emergent property of a certain level and type of organic/inorganic interfacing.
So it’s not that one species was the Borg, all are in potentia. And every time a species commits the same error or reaches the correct level of “perfection”, they find themselves in a universe where they were already existent.
Like a small hive self-creates, opens its mental ears and is already subsumed into the greater Borg whose mind it finds.
I like that it adds almost a whole new level of arrogance to their statement, “Resistance is futile.” They believe it not only because they are about to physically assimilate you, but because every advance you make brings you potentially closer to being Borg through your own missteps.