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Predicted horrors aren't real horrors either. But maybe we don't have to wait until the horrors are realized and embedded into the fabric of society before we
by saulpw 2y ago
Predicted horrors aren't real horrors either. But maybe we don't have to wait until the horrors are realized and embedded into the fabric of society before we apply the brakes a bit. How else could we possibly be vigilant? Reading news articles and wringing our hands?
- XorNot 2y agoThere's a difference between the trolley speeding towards someone tied to the tracks, versus someone tied to the tracks but the trolley is stationary, and to someone standing at the station looking at the bare ground and saying "if we built some tracks and put a trolley on it, and then tied someone to the tracks the trolley would kill them! We need to regulate against this dangerous trolley technology before it's too late". Then instead someone builds a freeway because it turns out the area wasn't well suited to a rail trolley.
- saulpw 2y agoThe tracks have been laid by social media and smartphones, we've all been tied to the tracks for awhile and some people have definitely been run over by trolleys, and the people building this next batch of monster trolleys are accelerationists.
- talldrinkofwhat 2y agoI think it's worth noting that we can't even combat the real horrors. The fox is already in the henhouse. The quote that sticks with me is: "We've already lost our first encounter with AI" - I think Yuval Hurari. Algorithms heavily thumbed the scales on our social contracts. Where did all of the division come from? Why is extremism blossoming everywhere? Because it gets clicks. Maybe we're just better observing what's been going on under the hood all along, but it seems like there's about 350 million little cans of gasoline dousing American eyeballs. Make Algorithms Govern All indeed.