Comment Re:The return of the Luddites (Score 1) 32
nature already prevents that. We don't have it now, and we will never have it. It's just not possible.
Nature hasn't solved the problem of directly transferring learned info in one brain to other brains, each cycle has to reinvent the learning process almost from scratch*. But e-brains can be readily cloned, giving it an edge over nature (as known).
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Trump clones. It would be an entropy accelerant bigger than any the world has ever seen, as we are used to dealing with a just handful of evil dictators and demagogues at a time. And the DonBots could be made smarter than the current Don so that they wouldn't get distracted by dumb shit like ballrooms.
* Instincts are transferred, but they don't seem powerful enough to solve the issue. Maybe in a billion years or so nature might invent a way to directly transfer learned knowledge to offspring, but we don't really know. Given enough time and environments, I bet natural selection could solve it, but whether it can evolve in say 50 million years or take many billions is unknown. Re-learning is a resource drain on an organism such that there is a survival advantage of evolving knowledge transfer.