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    - Maybe TECH will save us?

    Started by K-Dog May 29, 2024, 10:44 AM

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    K-Dog

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    May 29, 2024, 10:44 AM
    No tech won't save us.  Their vision is not worth a nickel, plugged or otherwise.

    Accelerationist people have reified their speculations to stroke their own egos.  There is absolutely no basis for their claims.  They are worse than doomers who think all feedback loops run away to exponential destruction.  But math does not work the way they desire.  And that actually is a good thing. 

    Think of it this way.  If Guy McPhearson is one side of a coin, Gil Verdon is the other side.  It is the same ignorance but it is the other side of the coin.  Doom and gloom Vs Happy Happy Joy Joy.  The spy Vs spy of views taken to an illogical extreme.

    The smartest guys in a room are not so smart if they do not know they are trapped in a room.  Accelerationists are in a room with a locked door.

    The consequences of reification are not trivial.  Consider this, without sex there is no gender.  Yet some people think a man can have the soul of a woman or that a woman can really be a man inside, despite the evidence of the universe being otherwise.  And this belief of the ignorant is ruining lives.

    There is only one word to describe this sophomoric thinking.

    NUTS

    Making reality from fiction and speculation is nuts.  And people do it all the time.  Believe in the unreal.  People believe in realities that rot away as soon as their brain dies, thinking that their realities are more real than the actual stuff of stars.  Private realities last only as long as the brains that constructed those realities.

    Accelerationsists are more than equally nuts.  Not once in this video (which I have playing while I write this) have there been any discussion of limits.  This is irresponsible.  This is Guy McPhearson irresponsible.

    Dominant nerd alpha does not impress me.

    What fucking good does it do to have the intelligence of god when you don't even know what problem you are suppose to solve???  I actually find dominant nerd alpha repulsive.  The Marxist in me has serious problems with the accelerationist vision of Gill Verdon, and some of the things he said.

    I have my own accelerationist vision.

    In five years Gill Verdon and others will be saying the singularity (an impossible concept) is right around the corner.  And they will be saying we need to have quantum computing at the same time millions of people are starving to death.

    It is quite bougie to talk about solving the worlds problems with future technology because that discussion is impossible to have without ignoring the problems we have now.  Believing in future solutions for current problems postpones solving those problems.  It admits problems exist, but solutions now are back-burnured.  The candy-apple future is the focus, and current reality is ignored.

    What does this mean?  It means that people will suffer and die because of the insensitivity of people like Gill Verdon who will be discussing simulations inside of simulations inside of simulations while people die.  Topping it off, they will interpret the situation as proof of their natural superiority.

    What is quantum computing?  Does anybody really know?  Gil is supposed to be an expert on QC, but if you ask him what it is, all he will do is talk about its potential, and at the end of the day you still won't know what quantum computing is, or what it has ever done.  All you will know is that it will save the world someday.  Whatever it is.

    And that is total bullshit.  But if Gil's B- understanding of thermodynamics hits you in an agreeable mood thinking Gil is smart will be a natural response.  That is his goal, to impress you.  Press the right buttons.  Play on your natural inclinations.

    I looked hard for content in the video.  All I found was bullshit.  I think Gil is a charlatan who demonstrates humanity is a failed experiment.  If wishes were horses fools would ride, and Gil has a pony. 

    Quantum computing seems to be incompatible with self-reflection.

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