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I don't know what's going to happen with this project of his, but this certainly is an interesting article: >Sitting cross-legged on a dirty, formerly cream-co
by hellofunk 11y ago
I don't know what's going to happen with this project of his, but this certainly is an interesting article:
>Sitting cross-legged on a dirty, formerly cream-colored couch in his garage, Hotz philosophizes about AI and the advancement of humanity. “Slavery did not end because everyone became moral,” he says. “The reason slavery ended is because we had an industrial revolution that made man’s muscles obsolete. For the last 150 years, the economy has been based on man’s mind. Capitalism, it turns out, works better when people are chasing a carrot rather than being hit with a stick. We’re on the brink of another industrial revolution now. The entire Internet at the moment has about 10 brains’ worth of computing power, but that won’t always be the case.
- coldtea 11y agoRegarding slavery that's a fatalistic attitude that's not very good for the advancement of human societies. The other side of the coin of his "technology outgrew slavery, and thus we got rid of it", is that if tomorrow's technology demands some moral monstrosity, to "work better", we can't but bend over and accept it. Neither human struggles (from the civil war to MLK and Rosa Parks), nor desires and leadership come into any of this, neither is "working better" (towards what? for what purpose? etc) defined.
- hellofunk 11y agoI agree. But still quite an interesting article, one of the more entertaining reads I've had in a while.
- tim333 11y agore >slavery ended is because we had an industrial revolution that made man’s muscles obsolete I think that's basically wrong also. It fits better with the advent of the printing press than the steam engine.