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."
@holon42 its all about them
nothing else matters
except acquiring the wealth to get them what they want
@pennyphilosophy
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.