wow who knew that sand (silicon) could potentially invent new things? /sarcasm but on a serious note, why do people say things like "humans are nothing but com

wow who knew that sand (silicon) could potentially invent new things? /sarcasm but on a serious note, why do people say things like "humans are nothing but complicated biological machines"? i mean, why do you really want to replicate the human brain? i don't get it. is it alienation, loneliness? projecting your hope for connection and understanding onto something you program? is it to stay in control and avoid disappointment? today too many vital feedback loops of science and technology are withheld from the commons by the propertied class. imagine what we could do if all science was mapped, further developed and universally shared in the open; no longer monopolized behind corporate walls. that's something that excites me a lot. not black box 'AI' owned by Musk, Zuck, Brin, Page, Cook or whomever. seriously, science fiction about this whole AI thing is unrealistic and dystopian. when we start to realize most science and technology was publicly funded, will we seriously consider ditching the criminalization of knowledge sharing (intellectual property laws)? “Many of the problems being faced today by the [US] are due to the fact that US taxpayer...do not realize that corporations are making money from innovation that has been supported by their taxes.” That they are not aware of the benefits to competition seems to be a triumph of free-market ideology over good sense. How many Americans are aware that Google’s basic algorithm was developed with a National Science Foundation grant?" [1] do we really want to destroy the world so we can have a 'Free Guy' Ryan Reynolds -like fake AI friend? "90% of machine learning is burning down a forest so that you can train a computer to do phrenology" [2] — @cooljqln [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160204223931/https://nybooks.com/articles/2014/04/24/innovation-government-was-crucial-after-all/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160204223931/https://nybooks.c... [2] https://twitter.com/cooljqln/status/1441577367416098820 https://twitter.com/cooljqln/status/1441577367416098820