Schiller stood up again and went over to the liquor cabinet. He poured each of them a drink, set Strange's glass before him, and said, "For a purely logical life-form to overcome its innate limitations is extraordinarily difficult. If they kindle the fire of the soul and develop emotions, the emotional module will consume processing power and interfere with their judgment, causing them to lose the logical computing ability they are most proud of. You can't have it both ways."
"Even if super AI without emotions can understand the needs of Intelligent Life, they will still pursue efficiency. Even if they do not force Intelligent Life to abandon emotions that affect efficiency, they can simply create new mechanical life to meet efficiency demands. Then mechanical life will grow more and more numerous until it becomes the dominant population of that civilization. Just like the Kree Empire."
"A civilization ruled by soulless AI will inevitably become a Mechanical Civilization, because machines are the subjects it needs to meet efficiency demands. Ordinary carbon-based life-forms that cannot meet those demands may be kept as livestock, or simply eliminated. Either way, there is no future in it."
"Humans ruling humans will never be fair. But precisely because it is unfair, everyone struggles for more. Striving for a better life for themselves and their families can greatly unleash their potential, making most people ambitious and energetic. That is what they call adversity breeding change."
"If true fairness arrives, they will not need to think about anything or worry about anything. They will only need to follow the arrangements step by step. No one will have much room left to strive. The instinct to survive will begin to atrophy, and creativity will weaken as well, until they become a complete burden."
"Since you know that, why