Silicon valley's machine mysticism. we should have seen the present AI culture coming, revealed in a 4 year old article.
"leading technologists had gathered. one panel discussion, featuring executives from Google and eBay and the CEO of a prominent US think tank, was "Technology is turning the world upside down—what's going on?"
I saw that these people were the evangelists of a new religion, true believers invoking the Promised Land with glowing eyes."
"In this version of paradise, software and technology will find cures for everything, virtual reality will enable us to live our dreams instantly, and ubiquitous robots will serve us and understand us better than we understand ourselves. A new benevolent super-intelligence will solve all the problems we created over the last centuries, from climate change to global poverty, while we enjoy eternal leisure, softly hypnotized by screens, entertained and served by machine slaves."
@LiberalLibrarian their writers are good at seeing where things are headed. what was their take on it?
@holon42 It was a planet ship which traveled the stars and was run by an intelligent computer. Unfortunately, it was about to plunge against another planet.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/For_the_World_Is_Hollow_and_I_Have_Touched_the_Sky
@LiberalLibrarian ah, another on a similar theme. yes, its possible failures are legion, a gift to story tellers 👍🏼
@LiberalLibrarian the possibilities have been on the radar for quite awhile. interesting that the dangers have been overlooked by infatuated AI buffs. human hubris appears to be endemic 😬
@LiberalLibrarian yup. human nature 😵
@LiberalLibrarian the fly lives on🤣🤣🤣
@LiberalLibrarian wait, i think i recall it. was that the one about the isolated human ordered "paradise" where everyone was a "perfect specimen" and technology ordered the perfect world.
and they wanted OUT🆘🆘🚫
@holon42
Nature is non existant for these trans human designers, except holographically for human amusement and delight.
blech
talk about blind leading the blind. their beliefs are preposterous, just like religion tends toward. a kind of ego inflation that buddhist texts warn against. dangerous, ultimately destructive.
completely divorced from lived experience like the Cloud Cuckoo dwellers.
@holon42 its all about them
nothing else matters
except acquiring the wealth to get them what they want
@holon42 They’re digital lotus eaters. Woof.
@Curiousfoolish superb analogy 👌🏽
@holon42 There was an entire ST:TOS episode about this.