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I think the future will be a large group of Amish like who will be pacifists and shun technology and a group who live in the citadel with AI creating everything
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
I think the future will be a large group of Amish like who will be pacifists and shun technology and a group who live in the citadel with AI creating everything in their consciousness. Deeply unhappy but addicted to the rat race.
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- skummetmaelk 3y agoThe future?
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- webkike 3y agoOk
- TeMPOraL 3y agoShunning technology on its own won't lead to pacifism. Otherwise, what you described is pretty much a typical fantasy setting.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoI think even the little that we have seen from chatgpt is a sign that generated content will always be heartless, poor quality but people will be ok with it and adopt it. So I think it would make sense that eventually this will break the market into two.
- aik 3y agoOr… you view it as just another perspective just like that from a human coworker where most ideas are throwaway but you take what you like and leave the rest. Understandably we all want AI to be perfect but what we have today is much more human.
- isk517 3y agoSturgeon's law ("ninety percent of everything is crap") is well known, and a lot of money has been made and time spend consuming a significant chunk of that 90%. AI only needs to be better than 90% of that 90% to succeed.
- 082349872349872 3y agoWhen anabaptism was new, there were also many non-pacifist sects, but those eventually all failed to survive the conflicts they got into the with the wider non-anabaptist world.
- pilsetnieks 3y agoNeal Stephenson's Fall [1] is by far not his best book, however, the first part has a chilling depiction of societal divide into Ameristan and, for lack of a better word, the blue states that feels entirely plausible. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell
- msisk6 3y agoI just finished the audiobook version of this on a long drive through the heart of Ameristan. Very plausible. Remember Moab!
- lph 3y agoIt's a shame, the Ameristan near-future dystopia parts of Fall were quite good, but the virtual world plot became increasingly silly. My mood would pick up whenever I landed on a chapter that got back to the "real world" plot.
- stuckinhell 3y agoI'm slowly coming around to this conclusion as well.
- PakG1 3y agoI told my wife that we should consider being farmers in the future. She said we'd starve to death. Can't figure out if I agree with her.