If we suppose that our world is evolving to a point where the majority of monetary wealth is held in the hard assets form of cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin being the fundamental base currency...

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  1. then we may be evolving toward a world in which whoever holds the most bitcoin holds the most power to build, maintain, or destroy. tid:2480 (1) (hivelink)
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In short, all technological societies may be destined to create a world in which the capacity for all physical acts including labor and war is merely a function of wealth.

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A society with the ability to create and use androids for all physical labor will also be able to use androids for violence, war, and destruction.

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Who is directing the army of androids? Who is setting the long term goals and assigning meaning to any metrics for monitoring progress towards such goals?

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At this point, androids will be able to build and maintain all aspects of a growing and expanding technological society. The only question will be...

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At some point, our androids will be able to replace all human labor involved in the process from start to finish of building and maintaining all tech infrastructure.

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Suppose we are able to build and maintain androids at a reasonable and ever decreasing cost.

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Suppose humans invent an android that can navigate the physical world, touch, create, manipulate, and build things as well as any human.

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Teslabots and androids. Implications for biological life.

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Teslabots, blockchains, AI, war, aliens, and the inevitable events in the evolution of a technological society.

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Dangerous Ideas

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