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What could be considered barbaric or backward in a few hundred years, if technology advances, uninterrupted by any disaster or popular anti-intellectual movement (i.e. a new Dark Age)? :

 

1. Reproduction through sex and then carrying a pregnancy to term could be a thing of the past. In the distant future, it is very possible that children can be grown in lab environments, using donated sperm and eggs, without the need for a mother to endure the stress or risk of carrying a child inside of her for 9 months

 

2. Marriage will be rare. The stronger and cheaper that social safety nets become, the less need there will be for legal commitments enforcing relationships. The more life like AI driven robots become, the less need men and women will have for each other, with regards to using each other for sexual gratification or emotional support.

 

3. Subjecting anyone to low skilled strenuous labor will be unthinkable. Given the degree of automation and AI development, it is conceivable that doing any sort of manual labor will be considered about as necessary, a few hundred years from now, as using a mule to do modern day delivery of material to construction sites.

 

4. Enduring education solely for the purposes of getting a job won't be common. Since AI is developing so fast, a few hundred years from now, it is possible that many of the higher skilled jobs will be supplanted by it, thus more and more people maybe free to pursue education more for enlightenment sake, as opposed to using education as it is used today, as some form of drudgery that one must endure to obtain a "practical job".

 

5. Warfare for resources and land will be relegated to history. With advances being made in renewable energy production, more efficient/cheaper methods of desalination of salt water, and the introduction of genetically modified plant strains that require less resources, modern warfare that is driven by the need for fossil fuels, water shortages, and land will be rare.

 

6. Religion as we know it will be obsolete. While the superstitious mentality that drives people towards religion will always persist, atheism will become far more pervasive, and the few who still embrace a supernatural perspective will adopt far more benign, and less politically potent forms of religious belief, than the current forms of monotheism that are wreaking so much havoc on the world today.

 

7. National borders will be erased. Current political distinctions between countries will be eradicated, since language barriers can be erased with AI that can automatically translate what one is saying, and competing for resources can be a thing of the past.

 

8. Male/Female gender norms will be gone. While we are starting to see a slow erosion of these differences already, our increasing reliance on technology will make gender norms unnecessary.

 

9. Learning through the arduous effort of rote memorization won't be necessary. The more and more that we learn about brain function, and the more advances that are made in our ability to interface technology with our own biology based neural "circuity", the more we can move away from the painstaking task of studying to learn something, and the more we can receive information like an imprint.

 

10. Mortality itself (reference #9), as a result of aging, will no longer be of any concern for us. If information and behavior can be imprinted by rewiring the brain to replicate another brain exactly, it might be possible, in a few hundred years, to never die. As soon as a person ages, assuming we don't come up with the means to halt aging, we can make a duplicate brain using improved computing power to do a 3D mapping of ones neural circuitry, and then imprint that mapping onto another brain of a genetically engineered biological host. (i.e. think Altered Carbon without the dystopian overtones)

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Let us concede, for a moment, that the law of love, and the condemnation of tyranny and oppression seem logically to involve, as a result, the condemnation of slavery; yet, if slavery is afterwards expressly mentioned and treated as a lawful relation, it obviously follows, unless Scripture is to be interpreted as inconsistent with itself, that slavery is, by necessary implication, excepted. The Jewish law forbad, as a general rule, the marriage of a man with his brother’s wife. The same law expressly enjoined the same marriage in a given case. The given case was, therefore, an exception, and not be treated as a violation of the general rule. The law of love has always been the law of God. It was enunciated by Moses almost as clearly as it was enunciated by Jesus Christ. Yet, notwithstanding this law, Moses and the apostles alike sanctioned the relation of slavery.

The conclusion is inevitable, either that the law is not opposed to it or that slavery is an excepted case. To say that the prohibition of tyranny and oppression include slavery is to beg the whole question. Tyranny and oppression involve either the unjust usurpation or the unlawful exercise of power. It is the unlawfulness, either in its principle or measure, which constitutes the core of the sin. Slavery must, therefore, be proved to be unlawful before it can be referred to any such category. The master may, indeed, abuse his power, but he oppresses, not simply as a master but as a wicked master.

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Uchuu.no.Kishi.Tekkaman.Blade.full.49700

 

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https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-considered-taboo-to-play-as-a-Drow-in-Dungeons-and-Dragons

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http://lesswrong.com/lw/85h/better_disagreement/

 

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We tried to reproduce the issue, and found that the Windows Update assistant would change the settings in the Windows Update service when it starts updating your computer, and unfortunately, disabling the Windows Update service can only stop the Windows update in Settings, instead of the Windows Update Assistant.
Would you please try to perform a clean uninstallation of Windows Update Assistant on your computer? Just follow the steps below:
1. Press the Windows logo key + R at the same time, type appwiz.cpl, and press Enter.
2. Find the Windows Update Assistant in the listed programs, and right click Windows 10 Update Assistant.
3. Click Uninstall, and confirm the uninstallation.
4. Open File Explorer, and click This PC.
5. If the Windows Update Assistant is installed by default when you install your Windows OS, go to the file where your system is installed, normally it's This PC > C drive > Windows > Windows10Upgrade, then delete the Windows10Upgrade file.
If the Windows 10 Update Assistant is installed separately, you can go to the file where the Windows 10 Update Assistant is saved, and delete the installation file. It's normally named as Windows10Upgrade.
6. Go to This PC > Windows, delete the files named UpdateAssistantV2 and UpdateAssistant.
Then try the method 2 in the article to stop the Windows Update service, and restart your PC to see if it works.

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