Or, if the elite consists of gentle- hearted liberals, they could decide to play the position of good shepherds to the remainder of the human race. 1659. Let's play carpenter, first we get hammered, then I nail you. If man isn't adjusted to this new surroundings by being artificially re-engineered, then he might be adapted to it by an extended and painful technique of pure selection. 178. Whatever else would be the case, it's certain that technology is creating for human beings a brand new physical and social atmosphere radically completely different from the spectrum of environments to which natural selection has tailored the human race physically and psychologically. Eventually a stage could also be reached at which the selections necessary to keep the system working will likely be so complex that human beings will likely be incapable of constructing them intelligently. The machines is perhaps permitted to make all of their own selections without human oversight, or else human control over the machines may be retained. 173. If the machines are permitted to make all their own choices, we can’t make any conjectures as to the outcomes, as a result of it's unimaginable to guess how such machines may behave. Either of two instances might happen.
