Ask A Genius 126 – Trump Administration Possibility Two
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/03/23
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Rick Rosner: Another possibility is that jerk conservatives manage to keep getting elected, and reinforce each other, and it doesn’t get better. There’s another possibility, which is that the future will happen to everybody and will tend to swamp the current shitty antisemitism with a whole other set of challenges. My conservative buddy is worried about the US being swamped by Muslim refugees, and that they will become 10% of the population.
Right now, we are at less than 1% Muslim. He listens to all of this stuff about the countries that do have a percentage of the population pushing – European countries – 10% of Muslims. He hears the lectures about life being Hell in those countries. But if you go to other sources that aren’t conservative or manipulative in that way, other sources say, “No, they’re not that bad. People acclimate.”
Regardless of whether that 10% level is terrible for the country or not, I tend to think it is not that terrible. Before the population of Muslims in this country reaches 10%, we will have hundreds of billions of AI running around in the country or plugged into stuff in the country. You will have your robot girlfriends, and your Cortanas, and Siris, and sidewalks with chips, and refrigerators that ask if you want more yogurt.
It will be a very woke up world. People’s concerns – racist people’s concerns for the most part – about issues surrounding Muslims will be dwarfed by the issues associated with AI.
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