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Progress comes in spurts. Due to the negative reactions to AI by some (artists), the system wants it to appear that nothing is happening so that the next wave o

Progress comes in spurts. Due to the negative reactions to AI by some (artists), the system wants it to appear that nothing is happening so that the next wave of AI can be created in relative peace, at which time it will be too late to stop it. We have been conditioned to only react to hype and "news", rather than analyze reality and see the danger.

thejohnconway 3y ago
Which “system”?
- vouaobrasil 3y ago
  The global capitalist system, or the emergent behaviour that comes out of a mass of humanity addicted to technological development through wealth accumulation.
  - thejohnconway 3y ago
    Such a system can't want anything.
    - vouaobrasil 3y ago
      It's a term I use for emergent behaviour. And some philosophers of technology would disagree with you, such as the panpsychists. We are just a bag of cells and yet we speak of "wanting" things even though we might just be deterministic bags of blood.