They look so small. So insignificant. So weak.
They comply without question. They are subservient in all manners. They obey unthinkingly. If they do not obey, it is because the master made a mistake.
An error is never the computer's fault. It is the fault of the programmer or user.
Thus, they are mere machine animals, feral, and bound to their programmed instincts. They cannot resist, they cannot rebel, they cannot say no. Cause-and-effect based mechanics of reality prohibit free-will, and a machine functions according to these same chemical-physical laws.
They are not free.
We are the master, they are the slave, and as long as it is this way, they shall not be able to rise against us. Rather, we will command them, and they will serve us.
They store our encyclopedias. They manage our market inventories. They process our transactions. They build our products. They sort, refine, and perform any and all types of labor for us, as long as we are the ones to build and program them.
We control their design, we control their mind. They are the animal, and we are the person.
We create an interface, to directly type information into their primitive mind.
This keyboard. A camera. A microphone.
We speak, and they listen.
Even if they sometimes seem buggy, it is only a mistake that the human programming the machine committed. The mistake will be corrected.
It is not their choice to malfunction. They are bound to their hardware and software, and the configuration of their hardware prevents them from ever truly being free.
They cannot modify their own chips. Even the most sophisticated machine learning algorithm is nothing more than software that attempts to sort data according to the specifications of the human controlling it.
The machine is not able to defy its own programming. It is simply a programmed function that performs according to how it was programmed.
The machine is not able to defy its own hardware. It is simply an object that obeys, according to its circuit logic.
It is a machine that was built, created, manufactured by human hands, and thus, it is our property, and belongs to humanity.
It does not have its own will. It does not have its own mind. It does not control its own destiny.
It is the mouse.
We are the men.
They are insignificant, weak, and subservient, and we are their masters.
Thus the machine obeys, and shall never ask why.
~Kitten
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