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yes of course -- and i don't mean this facetiously, but "that's why they call it science fiction". as for your second point -- i'm not sure it's not happening
by SocksCanClose 11y ago
yes of course -- and i don't mean this facetiously, but "that's why they call it science fiction".
as for your second point -- i'm not sure it's not happening right now.
- jacquesm 11y ago> as for your second point -- i'm not sure it's not happening right now. That's both the curse and the beauty of it. As the perpetrators of such a scheme you could totally get away with it and we'd all be as oblivious about it as could be. Johnny has ambitions to go and make some real and unfortunate changes, let's give him a really well paying job and shower him with toys until he's distracted to the point of giving up his ambitions. Manipulation works better the more subtle it is and the longer before a certain course of action the smaller the deviation from the path to avoid the course of action entirely.
- SocksCanClose 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
- SocksCanClose 11y agoand i agree and tell my friends who ask "so, AI this year?" that in fact we're a long way away. in fact, potentially infinitely long, if you think that while we may create simulacra of consciousness, without understanding what it means to be human (at least cognitively), we may never be able to create its digital parallel.