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> collectively as a species we're going to start feeling a whole lot less special. If that's the case, expect a massive backlash from the spiritual types, whic
by toyg 4y ago
> collectively as a species we're going to start feeling a whole lot less special.
If that's the case, expect a massive backlash from the spiritual types, which basically means every other person. The centrality of man is essential to the abrahamic religions that dominate the planet, and other ones too will struggle to come to terms with seeing ghosts in the machine. I suspect organized religions will find ways to officially ostracize Machine Learning over the next decade. They'll form an alliance with people whose jobs are threatened, and pass laws to smother or ban research and deployment.
I am not a believer in an "AI revolution" or singularity, I think they're still one step up from parlor tricks, and anyway the world can evolve as fast as it can devolve (a nuke or two and we're in the ancient world again), but it feels inevitable that we're going to experience some significant neoluddite movement very, very soon.
- echelon 4y ago> I am not a believer in an "AI revolution" or singularity Check back in 12 months. I bet my entire life -- not just the sum total of my earnings -- that this the moment humans duplicate the spark that makes us who we are. And from there, God only knows what is possible. Every day it improves. And it's not stopping.
- coldtea 4y ago>And from there, God only knows what is possible. A few different kinds of dystopia, mainly.
- echelon 4y agoToo many doomers in this world. Tilt your head up and stop looking at the ground.
- coldtea 4y agoThat happy-go-lucky attitude is how people end up in the ground...
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoNever stop an adversary when he's making a mistake, and all that.
- Rapzid 4y agoWill dystopian fiction get worse or better? These are the pressing questions of our time.
- Rapzid 4y ago> I bet my entire life I would hedge that bet.
- coldtea 4y ago>If that's the case, expect a massive backlash from the spiritual types, which basically means every other person. Which, regardless of the existence of god or not (which is irrelevant) sounds very smart. Basically a great evolutionary defense mechanism! Hopefully the non-spiritual types wont doom themselves and everybody else to AI-slavery or annihilation...
- ben_w 4y ago> The centrality of man is essential to the abrahamic religions that dominate the planet Do they really dominate? They're big and all, but both economically (and to an even greater extent by population) China + Japan + India are also pretty substantial, and not predominantly Abrahamic. And even in the west, religiosity is in decline. > inevitable that we're going to experience some significant neoluddite movement very, very soon. Absolutely agree, the discourse from those artists who vehemently dislike AI art speaks to this. How powerful they are, I do not know. But they are there, they don't like what they see, and they have already turned the counter-arguments into bingo cards.
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