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When you talk about the future, there's only one thing you can actually do and that's believe (not in the religious sense), because it is uncertain. Especially
by LockAndLol 7y ago
When you talk about the future, there's only one thing you can actually do and that's believe (not in the religious sense), because it is uncertain. Especially sensationalist expressions like "self-driving cars will never happen".
Making absolute statements, especially about the future, is not a mark of an intellectual or of intelligence. But everything is relative.
- paganel 7y agoBelieving in self-driving cars is believing in AGI, and if some people find not believing in that “sensationalist” then it all kind of proves my point. I also don’t live in the SV bubble, maybe down there the AGI church is stronger, I wouldn’t know. I strongly recommend Jacques Ellul’s “The New Demons” [1], and Ellul’s works generally speaking. [1] https://www.amazon.com/New-Demons-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0816402663 https://www.amazon.com/New-Demons-Jacques-Ellul/dp/081640266...