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<blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5595193" data-attributes="member: 51930"><p>Which parts specifically?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are loads of people like this already. They're called old people and sick people. You try shoving them out an airlock and see how you do.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My experience of addictions, and people who have them, shows me that there are people who would be content to just sit in their room and replicate, for example, heroin or crack. Cocaine rats, with a button that dosed them with cocaine every time they pressed it, are an example from an actual series of experiments. Every time a button gets pressed, they dose themselves. Spread it out to randomly every few presses, and they'll keep pressing until they get it. They will press the button literally thousands of times until they get a hit. It's the reward mechanism. </p><p></p><p>Check out people addicted to slot machines: they will keep pulling that lever in order to get a "hit" from the occasional "win". They're like the cocaine rats mentioned above.</p><p></p><p>I'm not arguing that people will be able to do nothing all day in community, but that people will find ways to be alone with their resources and just dose themselves in some form or another via replicators. So folks will abandon communities with their replicator, FOR their replicator.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And yeah, the infinite power source would be nice. </p><p></p><p>Any word on how zero-point energy works, or should work?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fireinthedust, post: 5595193, member: 51930"] Which parts specifically? There are loads of people like this already. They're called old people and sick people. You try shoving them out an airlock and see how you do. My experience of addictions, and people who have them, shows me that there are people who would be content to just sit in their room and replicate, for example, heroin or crack. Cocaine rats, with a button that dosed them with cocaine every time they pressed it, are an example from an actual series of experiments. Every time a button gets pressed, they dose themselves. Spread it out to randomly every few presses, and they'll keep pressing until they get it. They will press the button literally thousands of times until they get a hit. It's the reward mechanism. Check out people addicted to slot machines: they will keep pulling that lever in order to get a "hit" from the occasional "win". They're like the cocaine rats mentioned above. I'm not arguing that people will be able to do nothing all day in community, but that people will find ways to be alone with their resources and just dose themselves in some form or another via replicators. So folks will abandon communities with their replicator, FOR their replicator. And yeah, the infinite power source would be nice. Any word on how zero-point energy works, or should work? [/QUOTE]
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