Resistance is futile.

For a single month, because of jacked up electricity costs, under a right wing government. Shocked!

Yea. If by "civilization" they mean an assortment of creatures producing goods and ideas, consuming resources, altering ecosystems and reproducing, then humans aren't required at all.

Once technology is self sustaining, the answer becomes 0. No humans will be needed for earth creatures to pursue scientific discovery.

What would the AI machines need people for at all?

Those people would have to be farmers to survive if there were no farmers. Or they'd have to be miners if there were no miners. Or clothing makers. Or waste disposal.

The only reason anyone can pursue technology is because all other needs are already provided for.

You may be suffering depression leading to extreme anti-social behavior, but also movies and sci-fi depictions of AI aren't realistic, because the reality is we wouldn't stand a chance in hell. Even dystopian worlds like terminator's future are overly optimistic.

A skynet-like AI wouldn't kill 90% of humans, it would likely just kill all humans, or even all,life on earth, by permanently altering the atmosphere or poisoning the water. No need to waste time and resources hunting down creatures who fight back when you can just build machines to decrease the available oxygen on a global scale and suffocate everyone. They would have absolutely no need for any living creatures to exist, but could also simply build themselves spaceships and leave us here to suffer our own consequences, like the yogurt did in When The Yogurt Took Over

Yep. All true. Have to disagree with the implied optimism though. American culture is excess, not even just comfort anymore. Our economy operates on excess consumption. Capitalism requires excess, which causes obvious major environmental harm. It's not just energy, it's what we do with it. Never has a new utility been provided that people didn't use up and then require larger systems to provide. I'm confident that even if we solarized 100%of our energy needs, the very next day we would need more be a use we always use maximum capacity (which includes enormous amounts of waste at all levels).

I believe reducing individual consumption and desireto consume must be a goal. Otherwise we're just living on a finite planet pretending we have infinite resources.

Only today. We are still the largest historical emitter, and we set the standard. We spent a century telling the whole world we are better, our way of life is the ideal, you should copy our capitalism and consumption, and now our right wing government blames china for following us. It's all so broken.

Lol bye troll. This is hilariously fucking stupid.

I am not your personal data delivery service. Learn to use Google. I am metaphrocially showing you how to fish so you don't intellectually starve the rest of your life. It's www.google.com

I'm confident you can use Google or another search engine and type in "Hyperloop Las Vegas"

Can you acknowledge the fact I have repeatedly stated?

This isn't my opinion.

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

We see that the consumption-based emissions of the US are higher than production: In 2016 the two values were 5.7 billion versus 5.3 billion tonnes – a difference of 8%. This tells us that more CO2 is emitted in the production of the goods that Americans import than in those products Americans export.

You're completely ignoring my original comment. This is a result of the west offshoring it's factories. That's why they are building coal plants - so they can produce cheap goods for the profits of American owned manufacturers. If we kept production here, all those emissions and power plants would simply be here. There is no longer separation between nations when it comes to use of resources because so much commerce is international. As long as Americans buy things made in China, those emissions are ours too.

Allow me to introduce you to facts. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/20/china-clean-energy-ira-climate-00052684

They are building coal plants. Which European countries also did.

BUT in terms of future planning: The share of electricity generation provided by renewables is higher in China than in the U.S., while the sheer number of solar panels and wind turbines being installed across China leaves their American rivals in the dust.

Las Vegas is planning an expansion of its tiny Hyperloop pilot. It's not vaporware. It may be incredibly stupid, but it definitely exists.

That's only technically true. Much of the western world's emissions have simply been transferred because we moved our factories to Asia and south America. The claim that china is responsible is used by climate deniers and talking heads that don't want a real conversation, only a scapegoat that isn't their own company.

By explaining math to them. A population without income dies. If everyone is dead, who is buying the stupid squishmallows and air Jordans?

You said capitalism rewards the motivated. It. Does. Not. Many nurses are as motivated as any startup CEO.

It more effectively rewards those specifically motivated TO SEEK MONEY ABOVE ALL ELSE. No matter the human, resource or societal cost, to seek profit. See: Facebook & leaded gasoline

Would be right at home in r/fantasy, not sure about here.

You said capitalism rewards the motivated and penalizes the lazy. Nurses aren't lazy, capitalism rewards greed and moral bankruptcy, NOT hard work. I guarantee you don't work harder than a landscaper and the owner of all your local McDonald's doesn't work harder than any of the teenagers they employ. Your opinions are just not based on facts.

I assume you meant Animal Farm lololol. I do laugh at how people in 2023 still think more socialized economies are somehow bad for citizens when nearly every metric of life is higher in those countries than the world's most purely capitalist society.

Why would interest even still exist? Why would the stock market exist if nobody worked? A fully automated society could not be capitalist. I can see socialism, or authoritarianism. The reality is that the corporations woul control every aspect of daily life.

Capitalism rewards those with capital far more than those with ideas or innovation. Hard work is a bullshit line capitalists feed to you. Nurses in an ER work MUCH harder every single day than bill gates or Donald Trump has ever worked in their lives. Bill gates received investment from people he knew, and he didn't invent the thing that made him rich. Trumpie was onv just handed a massive pile of cash. And others who do have ideas and make money then gain exponential power to increase their wealth that every day citizens cannot access.

Yet, nurses aren't billionaires, and in fact some do live paycheck to paycheck while they spend their days saving lives. America simply gave the power of making law to lobbyists and corporations that spent the last 50 years rewriting the laws and the tax code to increasingly shift wealth from the population to the corporations and those who invest in them.

Murders? What? More equal pigs? What are you talking about, stranger?