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> To the extent we are seeing the beginning of a battle between artificial intelligence (AI) and humanity, I am 100% loyal to people. Perhaps I'm just jaded or
by ihsw 11y ago
> To the extent we are seeing the beginning of a battle between artificial intelligence (AI) and humanity, I am 100% loyal to people.
Perhaps I'm just jaded or cynical, but fuck people.
We, as a species, are the greatest threat to ourselves, and we are our greatest asset. An individual may be brilliant, and and large groups congregating together into governments that empower hundreds of millions of individuals may be the greatest feat our species has accomplished, but there is just so much instability across a wide spectrum of life.
We, as a species, are approaching the limit of what 7B people on this planet are capable of. Globalization is piquing and revolutionary growth will pique with it, and maintaining the rate at which we grow will be accomplished by broad-sweeping reforms with the end-goal being tearing down inefficiencies -- starting with economic.
We, as a species, absolutely can bring a first-world quality of life to everybody, so why shouldn't we?
We, as a species, absolutely can cooperate and govern on a global scale, where such cooperation is codified into law, so why shouldn't we?
The answer is that we don't want to because we can't handle giving up control to those other people because they don't have our best interests in mind.
How do we face the future? By letting go of our ill-conceived notion that we are fit to govern ourselves in the current manner, and accept that operational control of various aspects of humanity (eg: supply chain management, namely natural resource allocation and food distribution) will be automated, and as such outside of the purview of human judgement.
- kaybe 11y ago> We, as a species, absolutely can bring a first-world quality of life to everybody, so why shouldn't we? Not with the current lifestyle and the given ressources.
- astazangasta 11y agoNot with the current technology and the given resources. Most of the biomass on the planet lives happily in its means. We need to think like that. That means building with carbon, not metal.
- adrianN 11y agoMost of the biomass on the planet is in a constant struggle to increase its means and usurp its competition. Humans are just really good at that game.
- throwaway999777 11y agoBetter the devil you know.
- d883kd8 11y agoI disagree. You are probably being downvoted out of disagreement. (d_-1?) I'd like to thank you for contributing your perspective in this reasoned and impassioned advocacy for authoritarianism.
- ihsw 11y agoIt's not authoritarianism, it's trust. We already trust large aspects of our lives to machines, it's time we take that trust to the next level. If and when it happens, nobody will miss having to manage large fleets of container ships that currently move hundreds of millions of dollars of goods per day. If and when it happens, nobody will miss having to manage large fleets of trucks, vans, and cargo planes that currently move hundreds of millions of dollars of goods per week. If and when it happens, nobody will miss having to find and drill for oil and nat-gas. If and when it happens, nobody will miss having to raise and slaughter farm animals. If and when it happens, nobody will miss having to tend to land for our apples and oranges. Freedom of movement will diminish, in exchange we will achieve riches nobody ever dreamed of.
- StavrosK 11y agoThis is completely off topic, but this is the first time I saw someone say "pique" when they meant "peak".