there were three basic, legitimate desires: to belong, to procreate, and to work—everything else was toxic and superfluous. But had it succeeded? The early founders had focused their efforts on getting rid of unnecessary choices, arriving at the extremely simple (and truly ingenious) conclusion that human suffering and the worst of all human instincts were intimately connected to the ability to imagine. There was a time when robots were modeled after humans, but now it was the other way around.
