I don´t usually quote Richard Spencer, once dubbed Amerika´s most dangerous Nazi, but he may have a point here. We have met the enemy, and guess what? He´s us!
>>>I don't think AI will kill us physically, in any of the apocalyptic, Hollywood-fantasy ways that people imagine.
>>>I do accept that AI will destroy a great deal of information work that currently employs millions of people; the impact of that remains to be seen. >>>The real AI threat is to culture and art. >>>It is now easy to imagine billions of people entertained unto death, perhaps with VR goggles, with "culture" that is algorithmically designed to hit pleasure centers, but which is utterly vacuous, lacking meaning, myth, narrative, insight, and passion. The girl eating digital hotdogs on TikTok for money is the real image of technological domination, more than any evil nanobot or an AI-generated nuclear war. >>>We have programed the AI, and the AI is programmed to serve us. We are thus the problem. The problem of technology is a problem of the human psyche.
Yes, within the human psyche indeed. This clean/unclean dichotomy has to go as well. All sorts of dualities, mine/yours, I'm high born, you're a dirt bag, my religion says to destroy all heathen which means your religion. For crying out loud! What is it that predisposes the human mind to swallow whole the Super Ego parent message and proceed to Lord it over everyone else? Lack of feelings of self-worth? If not taking of material goods, labor property etc., what then?
ReplyDeleteI decided to take a refresher and read Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (Paul Reps) and paddle a little canoe of thought across the ocean.