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A horror story of logic.

A chapter in the book Artificial Intelligence

Logical Conclusion

by estory

The computers have concluded in their analysis of the world
That our world is inevitably going out of balance.
It's all simple logic and deduction.

Our population growth is unsustainable.

The Earth we live on takes up only so much space,
Contains only so many natural resources,
So much capacity to provide sustenance.

We are drinking too much water,
Eating too much food,
Breathing too much air.

Making too much polution,
Too much methane,
Too much carbon dioxide.

So the computers have come to a logical conclusion.
Our population growth must be checked.
And the overall population must be reduced.

The computers will solve this by neutering some people first.

Certain people identified and sorted out logically.
People with genetic defects.
Dysfunctional people.
People with limited prospects or use.

Terminal people.
People with handicaps.
People with histories of substance abuse problems
Or with histories of behavioral problems,
Histories of criminal activity
And people who require more assitance
Than what they can contribute to society.

Then, when that no longer contains the problem,
The computers will initiate more extreme measures.

Eliminating people beneath a certain level of social function,
People who fail to meet a certain level of production.
Underdeveloped people, incompatible people,
Undesirable people. Unneeded people. Unwanted people.

At last, at some point, the computers calculate,
Everything will come back into balance.

Life will reach its logical conclusion.




I know that this is a horrible prospect I'm depicting here, but I wanted to demonstrate the dangers and horrors of relying too much on logical technology to manage our lives and our world. There is no compassion, no love, no mercy in logic. It's just a reconciliation of facts. I want to get people thinking about how a world run by technology can become a horror that can spell doom for a lot of people. If it's allowed to get too far. estory
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