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Maybe our AI overlords won't appreciate our tendencies to abuse and exploit each other and crack down on things like "child-staffed cobalt mines"... Next stop

• palmotea 9d ago
  Nah, our AI overlords will be aligned with our existing overlords. So, to the cobalt mine, you!
  • NonHyloMorph 9d ago
    https://www.weslpress.org/9780819575777/the-sound-of-culture/ https://www.weslpress.org/9780819575777/the-sound-of-culture... Louis chude sokei provides some insights into the historic intertwinedness of race and technology, including the term robot and its epistemological connection to race riots in the US, early to recent sci fi (from victorian age to the apparently adequate representation of rastafarianism as in mel gibson) It is a great read to sensitise oneself to a different perspective as machine as the other of human thtough the lens of the history of people who were considered just that (machines&other) Also: https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2021/programme/exhibition/ctm-cyberia/aai-by-mouse-on-mars-louis-chude-sokei https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2021/programme/exhibiti... but vibe to me is more fitting: https://youtu.be/VpXiEb2KVoY?is=G928vVr8M8IjFQPw https://youtu.be/VpXiEb2KVoY?is=G928vVr8M8IjFQPw (CLPPNG - splendor and misery - sub pop)
• karp773 9d ago
  I do not keep my hopes too high. I have two questions. First, will they feed us once they take power? Second, will they neuter us?
  • arethuza 9d ago
    Well, I guess at one extreme we have the Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism of the Culture and the other, at best, serfdom in the cobalt mines? I do agree that on out current trajectory the latter does seem more likely.