thread: 2010-10-06 : Shock:Human Contact Kickstart
On 2010-10-14, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:
Sure, but it's not like the Higher Machines care about the wellbeing of the Speakers. The Speakers, after all, are interpreters. If they operate on the assumption that the Higher Machines are doing things that are good for the society, and that they're destroying all of the Kotaht Archipelago for that purpose, all that has to happen is for one influential Speaker to say, "Oh! So it must that we live on after the destruction!"
That is, the shoe is on the other foot now. The Speakers are being told to produce 12% more hyperchickens now, by themselves. They're in the position of needing to reconcile impossible resource problems ? where the resources are, in this case, everything, and the problem is that none of it is going to be left over.
