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Yes they did. That is typical of tech companies: it's amazing that people actually believe it. But that's our societies attitude: new tech is an improvement. It
by vouaobrasil 3y ago
Yes they did. That is typical of tech companies: it's amazing that people actually believe it. But that's our societies attitude: new tech is an improvement. It's a faith stronger than most people have in their god(s).
- fragmede 3y agoUnfortunately we can't put the cat back in the box, so even if you don't have that attitude, what are you to do? join the Amish? new tech isn't always an improvement, but we can't uninvent things, just like we can't unsee things.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoSlavoj Žižek made a great point about this. He said that we have been conditioned to believe that anything is possible with technology and science (cure for cancer, limitless energy, flying cars, teleportation), and we have ALSO been conditioned to believe that nothing can change sociologically. ("The world will always be the same.") But that conditioning is not actually true and perhaps you are exhibiting it: we actually can change things. I can already think of some things we could do: (1) Form an economic coalition that bans the use of AI, and squeezes out AI. Actually, the general public attitude towards AI is already ambivalent enough so that this might work. (2) Form a revolution against modern tech-controlled society. This would obviously involve a lot of things, but it could involve mass public activity against AI companies.