@ebbot 2/2 advantages are widespread. Often, too, the disadvantages for the local group are barely perceptible (to public opinion) and the global advantages for the population carry much more weight. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia
@ebbot 2/2 with an absolute risk. This is why all technical development that increases infinitely a risk that is hypothetical but absolute seems to me to be totally reprehensible. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

The question...what is the point?
It's a good question. Bezoszon gave one answer to the #trump hold on the #tech #bros and assorted sycophants. Oligarchy, I would think, might show more cajones. Even our #dystopia is disappointing.

Come on now.
https://youtube.com/shorts/k6iIKgu934o

jeff bezos gives his thoughts on donald trump

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@ebbot 2/2 socially. Its only logic is the simplistic logic of artificial machines. Technocratic competence is that of experts whose general blindness envelops specialized lucidity. Socially and politically, technocratic action can only be mutilated and mutilating. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia
If a venture carries with it a considerable potential risk, even if this is not normally foreseeable or short-term, the course of wisdom is not to undertake it. This principle would suppose full mastery of the situation and disbelief in progress. For this reason there is no chance that it will ever be applied. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia

From Futurism: "A #CEO of a #Bank Just Said Something So Ghoulish About Its Plans for #AI That He’s Now in Full Damage Control Mode"

https://futurism.com/future-society/bank-ceo-ai-damage-control

'... he wrote an internal memo to employees attempting to explain away his remark that he would be firing thousands of workers and replacing the company’s “lower-value human capital” with AI ...'

#Enshittification #Technofeudalism #Dystopia #Ethics

A CEO of a Bank Just Said Something So Ghoulish About Its Plans for AI That He’s Now in Full Damage Control Mode

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters scrambled to defend his earlier remarks about replacing human workers with AI.

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Ist es nicht krass, dass wir nun schon anfangen, für BOTs(!!) Bewerbungen zu schreiben – statt für Menschen?! Wenn wir dem nicht aktiv Einhalt gebieten, reden irgendwann nur noch Roboter miteinander. #Dystopia

// @realn2s @cdonat

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Ist es nicht krass, dass wir nun schon anfangen, für BOTs(!!) Bewerbungen zu schreiben – statt für Menschen?! Irgendwann reden dann nur noch Roboter miteinander. #Dystopia

// @realn2s @cdonat

@ebbot 2/2 rational this (by no means hypothetical) eventuality would cause us to stop all nuclear research and application. But even though the world perish, we will not arrest technical progress. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #technology #dystopia