IBM produce the next step of AI overlording

[Clarke]

Originally Posted by dstroudswan

I see your point, but the Na'vi rely very heavily on equality and community. Though I suppose that could be skewed in certain situations. Then again, Neytiri didn't seem much more well-off than any other, and she was the leader's daughter.

(I've shuffled this conversation off to another thread, FYI.)

But humans are stuck with democracy and majority votes instead of consensus, unfortunately, which means that it's inevitable that someone's going to be unhappy with any one decision.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? Humans aren't rational in the majority of times/places, after all.

And there are better ways of doing a lot of things in society, but they are all more expensive, and greedy corporate giants could care less about the environment - which I think is awful.

It's this, "humans are irrationally greedy" thing again, I'm afraid. I'd like to get rid of it, but don't know how.