Kind of, yes. But asymptotically so. In the sense that, the high priests of the AI koans drop off to negative infinity, with zero crossing having occurred in the 1990's, and from there, positive infinity came crashing in, and the vanishingly small number of digital immigrants persists above zero, and never goes away completely.
So the nigerian princes, and the chain letters will always be there, and fantastically stupid people will always exist, but selective pressure will lop off enough of their heads over time, that fewer and fewer unfit specimens will manage to reproduce.
This doesn't account for captive cattle, though. And for livestock, we know the rules are fundamentally different. Natural laws do not apply.
Verizon is a good example of a feedlot, replete with antibiotics, and horomones for growth and lactation, but no genetic engineering (yet). Fiber optics and anti-net-neutral-deep-packet-inspected video and quad-copter-drone-enforced DRM is like the graduation from bolt gun slaughter to anal electrocution. The slaughter house advances its automation, but by the time we're ready to genetically engineer the cattle, the meat will be grown in vitro and assembled into hamburger patties by pipettes.
So, pretty soon, I expect to have a Verizon subscription to a big mac vending machine in my living room, and I'll never leave my house. I'll earn my living breaking captchas in order to mine block chain credits that prove I watched advertisements for cars so expensive I can't even steal them, and for that, I can scrape together enough proof of work to authenticate half a big mac a day, with no special sauce. Which is fine, because I never need enough caloric energy to get off the couch. Just enough to flip over to avoid bed sores. Sounds fair to me.
So the nigerian princes, and the chain letters will always be there, and fantastically stupid people will always exist, but selective pressure will lop off enough of their heads over time, that fewer and fewer unfit specimens will manage to reproduce.
This doesn't account for captive cattle, though. And for livestock, we know the rules are fundamentally different. Natural laws do not apply.
Verizon is a good example of a feedlot, replete with antibiotics, and horomones for growth and lactation, but no genetic engineering (yet). Fiber optics and anti-net-neutral-deep-packet-inspected video and quad-copter-drone-enforced DRM is like the graduation from bolt gun slaughter to anal electrocution. The slaughter house advances its automation, but by the time we're ready to genetically engineer the cattle, the meat will be grown in vitro and assembled into hamburger patties by pipettes.
So, pretty soon, I expect to have a Verizon subscription to a big mac vending machine in my living room, and I'll never leave my house. I'll earn my living breaking captchas in order to mine block chain credits that prove I watched advertisements for cars so expensive I can't even steal them, and for that, I can scrape together enough proof of work to authenticate half a big mac a day, with no special sauce. Which is fine, because I never need enough caloric energy to get off the couch. Just enough to flip over to avoid bed sores. Sounds fair to me.