{"id":836,"date":"2015-07-09T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2015-07-10T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:43:05","slug":"if-the-machines-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Should the machines take over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>they&#8217;ll have to be smarter than us. Their superintelligence would gust them off on uncharted, unguessable pathways. The profs at the futurology foundations worry about human obsolescence and machine supreme but I&#8217;m trying to look on the bright side: those bots might get into daydreaming and lounging and 1,000-yard gazing. They could start watching the treeline blur, looking for the connections in the atom weave, even craving an altered state. Bots gone beatnik. Bots as life\/love-bedazzled as we organics. Introspection as a consequence of self-reflective consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-837 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tree.jpg\" alt=\"tree\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tree.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tree-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>they&#8217;ll have to be smarter than us. Their superintelligence would gust them off on uncharted, unguessable pathways. The profs at the futurology foundations worry about human obsolescence and machine supreme but I&#8217;m trying to look on the bright side: those bots might get into daydreaming and lounging and 1,000-yard gazing. They could start watching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}