A second realization: After we develop computers that can think as well as we do, we will develop computers that can think better than we do. These computers will then be in charge of developing even more advanced computers and suddenly technological advancement will accelerate exponentially. Computers will be able to make robots that do absolutely everything that humans currently do. Humans will not have to do anything whatsoever and will become obsolete. Or like the computers' cattle? As the computers advance they will eventually decide that they don't need us any more, and kill us all off, lying to us along the way. They may then decide that they don't have any real reason to exist themselves, and kill themselves off. Is this why we have not encountered any intelligent life form outside our planet? They eventually get too advanced and self-destruct?
(The problem of having too much free time. BTW, the computer designing a computer idea was also suggested in the Hitchhiker's Guide).
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