: A passing thought, the likes of which I recall has been touched on before:
: why is there a market for slaves in a space-faring galactic civilization
: that really ought to have robots that are better-suited for that kind of
: thing?
: What if the answer is that all races out there have either experimented with
: AI themselves or know people who have done so, to disastrous results:
: namely, rampancy. So nobody trusts automatons above a certain dumb level
: of intelligence, and they turn to slaves in lieu of them.
Maybe it's scarcity: there could be a lot less metals and lithium to seize in the universe than flesh and bone.... nah, that doesn't make sense. The fermi paradox says otherwise
