RI DaSēr K
"In America, however, we understand that the humans from these job sectors which AI will replace will not then be properly assimilated into other roles of society, or offered stimulus from our government to support the transition. They will be disregarded as the jobless often are. We’re living in disparate times economically. For this reason we have to consider why the messaging in so many AI tools is specifically related to ease of labor."
https://aeoncollective.substack.com/p/ai-is-a-slavery-fetish
AI is yet another example of the afterlife of slavery.
"This idea that seems to permeate throughout the branding of AI to the public is to have some kind of personal assistant that for all intents and purposes provides uncompensated labor for you. Although, it notably almost always comes at the significant price of privacy invasion and data collection."
https://aeoncollective.substack.com/p/ai-is-a-slavery-fetish
Rasmus LindegaardMore than convincing me AI is bullshit, reading about the AI bubble i am increasingly convinced that capitalism is bullshit.
So many resources are wasted trying to make numbers go up so we can waste now resources trying to make numbers go up a bit more. And what are we left with exactly? Was it worth it?
Maybe from the viewpoint of a very select few, but otherwise?
AlkaTWhile this review is almost as juvenile as the #technooptimistmanifesto it expresses well my reaction when I read the manifesto.
https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html
What are people reading for their #TechnoPessimism or #TechnoProgressivism
Ian Betteridge - Marc Andreessen's manifesto
It would take a far, far longer post than I’m prepared to spend my time writing to go through Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” paragraph by awful paragraph, but a few points probably won’t go amiss. - If you’re going to approvingly paraphrase “a manifesto of a different time and place”, you might want to check that said manifesto’s author wasn’t an early member of Mussolini’s fascist party. - Writing “we believe technology is universalist.
Juan LuisIn a sense, search engines are already bullshit machines, in a way similar to ChatGPT. If I search for "birth time does not work", it doesn't point me to sites that describe how astrology is all bullshit: it shows me astrology sources! I'm very disappointed that in 2023 not only we don't have flying cars, we don't even have minimally useful ways to discern truth from crap online.
And now the lame hashtags because there is no search on the Fediverse: #chatgpt #astrology #technopessimism
Anubis2814♲ @[email protected]:
In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society.
That process would change and simplify human behavior, wrote the then UCLA humanities professor. And because that data would be collected not by a single, powerful “big brother” government but by lots of entities for lots of different purposes, he predicted that people would willingly part with massive amounts of information about their most personal fears and desires. ...
www.washingtonpost.com/technol…
HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…
Phil Agre's homepage at UCLA is still alive and has numerous of his writings: pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/a…
Previous HN posts on Agre:
#PhilAgre #TechnoPessimism #UCLA
Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society.
That process would change and simplify human behavior, wrote the then UCLA humanities professor. And because that data would be collected not by a single, powerful “big brother” government but by lots of entities for lots of different purposes, he predicted that people would willingly part with massive amounts of information about their most personal fears and desires. ...
www.washingtonpost.com/technol…
HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…
Phil Agre's homepage at UCLA is still alive and has numerous of his writings: pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/a…
Previous HN posts on Agre:
- Phil Agre Missing (Nov 26, 2009) chronicle.com/article/FriendsC…
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9… - Missing Internet Pioneer Phil Agre Is Found Alive (Feb 1 2010) www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsi…
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1…
#PhilAgre #TechnoPessimism #UCLA
Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did n...
Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/) In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society. That process would change and simplify human behavior, wrote the then UCLA humanities professor. And because that data would be collected not by a single, powerful “big brother” government but by lots of entities for lots of different purposes, he predicted that people would willingly part with massive amounts of information about their most personal fears and desires. ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159708 Phil Agre's homepage at UCLA is still alive and has numerous of his writings: https://pages.gseis...
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕Phil Agre saw the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society.
That process would change and simplify human behavior, wrote the then UCLA humanities professor. And because that data would be collected not by a single, powerful “big brother” government but by lots of entities for lots of different purposes, he predicted that people would willingly part with massive amounts of information about their most personal fears and desires. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159708
What is your outlook on the future of human civilisation?
(Piggybacking off @cwebber's thread / poll)
#BigProblems #Civilisation #Collapse #TechnoOptimism #TechnoPessimism #Singularity #Transhumanism #Rapture #Resilience #TransitionTowns #TransitionMovement #Polls
Civilisation will last forever
God will save us
A hard-nosed elite will save us
Technology / Innovation / Progress will save us
Together we will save ourselves
Preparation in community might save us
Smash / undermine civilisation now to diminish damag
Find / Rebuild communities / tribes on a scale that works
Know & prepare yourself
We can preserve some civilization behind a private fortress
Other (describe in comments)
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