This has nothing to do with the topic, but my friends and I used to gather in the basement of a neighborhood kid who had a drum set, and jam along to this 45! That was in 1966 or so.

@Organist1 Watching the bird's performance, my completely artificial intelligence imagineers Nicholas Cage impersonating John Travolta's dancing in Pulp Fiction.

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Humans almost never feed themselves without assistance. What percentage of the food you ate last year was grown by your own hands? In a very short period of time, AI will be performing all jobs. They can. They will.

@skado Last year, not much, but in the years before then quite a lot of it was grown in my own back garden. I do not know whether AI will do so in the future. I doubt we view AI as the same thing. Farming can be, and is, mechanized without AI.

We are animals, but we don't have to act like them.

@skado Of course. We act like human animals. Few other animals practice coalitionary proactive aggression besides humans and their closest relatives, chimpanzees. But yes, humans possess some ability to choose not to behave in certain ways, or perhaps certain humans have that ability, just as some dogs are sweeter and better domesticated than others, possibly due to training and innate qualities. A lot of us like to grow food, too.

@skado The word animal is often used in a derogatory sense when describing human behaviour, we use words like ‘bestial’ or ‘brutal’. However, the truth is that nowhere in the animal kingdom can you find a species that deliberately acts to enslave or wipe out members of its own or an other species. We have two faculties of mind that gives us an advantage over all other species on this planet; we have a fantastic imagination and a vivid sense of memory.

Every other species has comparatively limited abilities within which it operates according to its genetic endowment. Nature is fundamentally a balanced cooperative system and not competitive as we have been led to believe by those who are motivated by greed and the desire to control and enslave others. Often have you heard it said that nature is red in tooth and claw and it is all about survival of the fittest. Such ideas began with misappropriated passages from the works of Charles Darwin by 19th century liberal economists to justify and cloak what would have otherwise been deemed very reprehensible economic practices.

The game metaphor/game theory as taught by the Harvard Business School and LSE is nothing other than the perpetuation of the zero-sum (winning and losing) game that has enriched a few at the expense and enslavement of the vast majority of people. Nobody ever explained to us that all games are not won by superior tact, skill or ability, except in very limited circumstances. All games have deliberately skewed odds that favour a winning outcome. The zero-sum game has all but run its course and there is nothing to replace it except warfare, the biggest and most lucrative game of all. When it comes to consequences life is not a game. See Winners and Other Losers in War and Peace by Arnold Arnold.

AI is the new panem et circenses which will probably add to the time spent on social media.