AHCA assumes robots will replace menial jobs, because people who do menial jobs will all be dead for lack of healthcare.
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There is, as always, an SMBC about this. http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2124#comic …pic.twitter.com/pnhF5riD1h
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Also the plot of The Fifth Element to be fair
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No sentient machines in that one? It was more like a giant evil ball, right?
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No, but Leeloo doesn't want to help us because of our nature for destroying ourselves
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Yeah bet the paperclip boosters haven't considered that one as much (actually I have no idea, also never finished Bostrom's book)
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Classic sci-fi story in which slavery never ended (Rome never fell) has aliens approaching then turning around when they hear about slaves.
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Frederick Pohl, “Waiting for the Olympians”. Side note: loved its spin on the First Commandment.
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I wrote a blog post at some point asking for help identifying half-remembered sci-fi stories (people obliged). I should just have asked you!
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/r/PrintSF is really good at this and is one of the non tire fire neighborhoods
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