Quote from: K-Dog on May 29, 2024, 10:44 AMI 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.
Don't sugar-coat it, Dog. Tell us what you really think. lol.
Seriously though, I am in complete agreement with your sentiments, I have an involuntary PUKE response when I hear futuristic drivel about "singularities", "accelerationists", "neural integration", "quantum computing" and any other techno sounding Giga-Nano-Bullshit-Teraflops they use to augment their fantasy world with. They remind me of some of the really smart guys in the Philosophy department I occasionally would chat with about existence and Christian Apologists who all used really obscure words and confusing grammar to obscure the fact that they were saying absolutely nothing. All those hours spent memorizing the dictionary and it has all the substance of a bag of hot air.
It's a bit like Marvel Comics Iron Man technology or Thor explaining to his Mortal girlfriend that "Science and Magic are the same on Asgaard". lol. Really smart guys so want to believe science fiction ideas that violate all the laws of physics that they turn their brainpower loose on cold fusion or light speed engines and figure they can solve the problem and make it work. AI is a honey trap for people with this mindset, because they believe all problems have a solution that can be thought out, so if they just had a little augmentation from a quantum computer with neural integration into their brains, they could solve all the world's problems. It ain't so because the problem is a practical one which is too many homo saps on a finite planet. It's a problem of corruption and greed and the fact that as a biological organism, homo saps grow, reproduce and exploit their host environment just as all other animals do, and in the absence of a predator to keep their numbers in check, they over populate and exhaust the environment. It's happened over and over again throughout history on smaller scales, this time it's the whole planet at once. You don't need a singularity to tell you what will fix the problem. Dead People.
The only thing I see coming out of AI is a whole lot more power consumption, even more powerful and invasive surveillance technology and even more centralized control of the society by fewer powerful oligarchs as they are able to take middle managers like Presidents, Senators, Prime Ministers and MPs and replace them with AI systems that will direct the society to their benefit. Human journalists will disappear and all the newz will be manufactured by AI, backed up by Deep Fake Audio and Video clips. Leaders will be Assassinated but live on as AI creates new speeches and video appearances after they are dead. AI has great potential to further imprison humanity, not to free us.
The main hopium I have is this period of AI fueled hyper-Fascism will be short lived as energy systems fail and the supercomputers shut down. Then we can get on with the dieoff and hopefully have enough left for a few million meat packages to start over.
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