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As with so much Silicon Valley stuff, I think the latest evangelizing for AI is probably just laundering military and counterinsurgency tech as some kind of uto
by AndrewBissell 6y ago
As with so much Silicon Valley stuff, I think the latest evangelizing for AI is probably just laundering military and counterinsurgency tech as some kind of utopian consumer godsend. Obviously AGI will remain a pipe dream, but what we will get is autonomous robotic soldiers with no conscience (that can be counted on to put down unrest without questioning their orders), or listening software that can monitor everyone's communications to identify targets in real time.
- wmf 6y agoMy main thought after seeing Elysium was "if the robots are so advanced, why not use them to help people?" Healthcare is just a big as the military, so why would the robot makers turn down that opportunity?
- AndrewBissell 6y agoWho owns the robots, and what are their motivations?
- wmf 6y agoI thought ruthless capitalists were in it for the money but maybe the cruelty was the point all along.
- m___ 6y agoThere was never in history a quest for the benefit of what is now a surplus population that has as only asset to pollute, contaminate, be parasitical and cannibalistic. Whatever stands for AI(no real definition in the lead text, just suggestive blabla), will be at the benefit of the immediate and power of the established few. Our "elites" are, were cockroaches. Between them and the latter surplus population there is a margin of whoring societals with some wackoo agenda not surpassing their primary drifts. The lower on the food chain, the cruder the desires for basic comfort.
- mrkramer 6y agoI think the end goal of human society is full automation and immortality. In the process of coming to that there will be all kind of problems, challenges, dramas and chaos. But once we are there it's kinda all gone and done.
- AndrewBissell 6y ago> Once we are there it's kinda all gone and done. The ends justify the means? Forgive me if I don't agree that some small sliver of sociopathic elites getting to live forever as nanite clouds or whatever excuses genocide euphemistically referred to as "dramas and chaos."
- mrkramer 6y agoFor example wars, colonization, and inquisition were dramas and chaos but after them and sometimes with the help of them came progress and innovation. Medieval Church had monopoly on education and knowledge but still believed earth was flat and prosecuted brutally anyone who opposed them. French Revolution was bloody and messy but it brought democracy and decentralized education which afterwards led to tremendous progress and innovation.