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Negative trade-offs are not directly related to individual products, but to the technology they depend on and the technology that can follow from them, plus our
by vouaobrasil 2y ago
Negative trade-offs are not directly related to individual products, but to the technology they depend on and the technology that can follow from them, plus our tendency in capitalistic society to invent whatever can be invented for incremental advantages. For example, AI note taking (benign) requires AI (overall bad) and can imply future technologies (greater surveillance). The bad parts cannot be separated from the good in modern global capitalism because we have no oversight mechanism to do so.
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- ImPostingOnHN 2y agoCyber augmentation already exists, and it's going to be used for what it's going to be used for. In my case, it's being used in the way I described, increasing the depth of human connections. So the question is, how does my usage result in "human beings to become more mechanical and less empathetic towards life"?
- vouaobrasil 2y agoI'm really not interested in your use case. Only in the effects caused by technology on average, summing all positives and negatives.