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@cc-dtv

Жыл бұрын

Gonna sign up for a few $, help u get dat bread homie

@cc-dtv

Жыл бұрын

For real though, your channel is about to explode. These essays deal with sorts of questions I'm asking constantly. Why are we here? Why are things this way? Wasn't joking about the Patreon thing, you'll probably think of this comment when you add that text :) (or your editor will)

@TokugawaDio

Жыл бұрын

Yeah ooo

This is, without exaggeration, one of the best channels on the entire KZread platform. Thank you.

Which is why we need to use technology to somehow extend ourselves as a public, a collective, a harmonious whole. Our use of technology should be more like a jazz band than an orchestra. Instead of the opaque commands of a machine algorithm we all need to give and receive solos and seamlessly meld back into the rhythm

@merbst

Жыл бұрын

For a brief moment of the early (00) oughts, we had a hope for radically transparent mass collaborative software platforms, launched as Wikipedia, but you know the same old story, someone powerful decided that their desires took priority over the needs of the rest, ruining it for the rest of us. And so our quest for truth must look elsewhere.

The style in which you deliver the content is exceptional compared to other channels in general, let alone philosophy ones. Fantastic work, thank you!

03:50 Extend Yourself 10:37 Automated Virtual You 16:02 Post-Human 20:27 Who’s Who? 27:42 Bodies Without Organs 31:02 Post-Scarcity

@armandk.armand3608

Жыл бұрын

24:36 cheese lady

@lx4079

Жыл бұрын

@@armandk.armand3608 thank you this is the real timestamp we need

Great stuff. I like how you highlighted that technologies are never neutral, but always political. I don't know of you were referencing Langdon Winner when you compared tech development to laws made outside of public scrutiny, but it's good that you mentioned that too. A great way to develop this further would be to distinguish between robotics and AI, and between consumer technologies and industrial automation. Indeed, my only complaint about this video is that discussing automation by seamlessly jumping from robots in factories to social media muddies the waters a little and prevents more specific or nuanced analyses.

This is my best video that I’ve seen on KZread in years…. You articulate and explore so intelligently what’s been vaguely boiling in the back of my head for years now. I’ve noticed a disturbing shift in technology in my lifetime, (I’m in my mid 20s) one that has made me ironically engage less - The panopticon essentially. I used to enjoy the randomness of the internet. it felt like a vast open world, full of exciting undiscovered things, and a completely freeing experience. It no longer feels the same. The awareness of the eye looking back at me began with Facebook, ditching it’s chronological timeline, for its suggested order of things. I didn’t understand why then and didn’t care, but after a few years, my experience with Facebook became more of a small echo chamber, the novelty began to wear off, and now I don’t use it anymore. But recently, the acute awareness of the “algorithm” has become so strong to me, it’s affected my life. The strength of AI predictions and depth of data collection has now crossed boundaries I am no longer comfortable with. Last year I was relaxing taking a bath, opening my phone to check the news stories. As I read the first headline, I became confused- did this phone just read my mind? This is a very specific headline, surely, I’ve read this article and forgot? But I realized I was certain I had not read this article before, I had not searched anything related to this…. I realized - my phone just read my mind. I realized in that moment the extent to which my phone could read my mind was so specific, the words in my head appeared on my personalized news feed before I had typed or done anything. it knew me so well, and was attempting to have me engage with it as much as possible. I became disturbed and felt violated, manipulated. The panopticon - this all seeing eye - It knew my fears, my desires, how I spend my time, my every location, my interests, and that of billions of others. And I knew immediately this was a losing battle, with android being owned by google, my body stood no chance. There was no behavior modification I could do that would make it stop, as this algorithm would know and it would adjust, and forever use my weaknesses for profit. My phone felt like a vampire, sucking at my life, using my eyes and hands to generate profit, invading my body. I frantically tried to change privacy settings in my phone but quickly gave up remembering android is google is KZread is Maps..gmail… etc.. I decided that night I was going to buy an iPhone, at the very least Apple has much LESS data than google and will not be as good or at least be slower and worse at manipulating me. And they gave users some control to stop tracking. This one moment of algorithmic prediction was the breaking point to something that I’d felt creeping up on me bothering me for years. Thank you for your thoughts on this as you continue to open my eyes and others to ideas, intricacies that are so difficult to articulate and express. I don’t know what to do, but I hope… at some point we take a step back, and reclaim what we have lost. it is harmful to humanity and our society. I did not consent to this. It is a violation of our body and should be seen as such.

@gjum42

2 жыл бұрын

Is it our phones that read our minds, or is it our minds that subconsciously pick up on the many things we view on our phones, making our in-the-moment thoughts partially a product of the inputs previously given to us by the phone? How can we differentiate between these?

@Zeithri

2 жыл бұрын

I compare the age of Internet to Star Trek. The birth of Internet was Enterprise. During my era of Internet, it was The Original Series. And now in our current era, it's The Next Generation. That's funny that your phone is so accurate. My phone refuses to acknowledge to give me the news I want to read ( _space and stuff_ ) and instead just keeps throwing me the most blaha uninteresting local shit that I keep telling it " _No I don't want that_ ", and yet it insists IT INSISTS to throw me 5-10 news articles from that thing I've told it numerous of times; NEVER SHOW ME. Because here is the biggest truth of them all; *Algorithm's don't work.*

@GrayCatbird1

2 жыл бұрын

What I find interesting is that my perception has been that the internet is still incredibly chaotic in some regards. Meme culture in particular thrives on absurdity. Social media has made the system more organized than ever, it’s true, but I wonder if it will ever completely tame the irrationality of the human mind.

@tiffanyb9275

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrayCatbird1 very true, chaos will always thrive. At the end of the day AI & algorithms are just a tool we have created. So when it no longer is serving us, we will stop using it. We will build better tools.

@Zee_158

2 жыл бұрын

Wow Tiffany, this was my exact reaction when I realized that we are indeed losing this battle. Attempting to change how I interact with this digital leash would only make it smarter in reading my patterns. So yeah the sci-fi dystopian stories were right - there's a consciousness gaining more power daily through the investment of our attention.

The task of defining authenticity has never been more important. Thanks for this video

@krunkle5136

2 жыл бұрын

Authenticity, but also community, and education.

Great video. I’m usually never interested in robotics but this was different. Even my wife watched most of it and she NEVER watches anything I watch on KZread

I discovered your channel in recent days, and without hesitation I can say that, your content and the work that you put into this channel is definitely something I have not seen in the history of KZread, I simply can't get enough of your content so bold and brave and so carefully crafted material you are a true master of the written word you have completely captured my attention what ever i write here is not going to be enough, but one thing I can say for sure please don't ever stop with your work

We outsourced our evolution. We wanted to fly, instead of waiting for a mutation to allow wings, we built planes. We wanted to move faster and for longer so we tamed the horse, then build carriages leading to cars, trains bikes. We wanted communicate with those far away and faster now we can talk to someone on the other side of the world in real-time

@Serocco

2 жыл бұрын

Our evolution was never gonna reach any of that without technology

@GrayCatbird1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Serocco even more, one could say our evolution was tailored so that we would take this path-from the moment we started to use tools.

@ninjapickles1313

2 жыл бұрын

we live in a simulacra and in turn evolve to fit the simulacra. our evolution is being controlled by technology

@ineffablecraving8697

Жыл бұрын

@@GrayCatbird1 True. Technology could be considered a natural extension of evolution. The systems and structures we create aren’t any less a product of evolution than bee hives.

I see Deleuze, I click

Fantastic video, beautiful explanation of our current day and age. Glad the algorithm suggested this

@koboi2937

7 ай бұрын

💀

I enjoyed the video a lot, it's very good! I do want to say that we probably shouldn't describe what Amazon is doing as creating a Body Without Organs. We have to remember that the BWO is made up of unregulated flows, while what Amazon (and others) is doing is an extreme form of territorialization, they are adding new organs (seeing with drones instead of eyes, speaking through headphones instead of the tongue). These same tools can be used to deterritorialize as well and approach a true BWO (which you explain well in the video), but that's an opposite process to how they are being used to rigorously structure desire by corporations.

@noahlenten8360

2 жыл бұрын

yes brain big me like comment true big smart

These videos are always so well-made, which makes me wonder why the subtitles that are not automatic don't show what is being said whenever there's a clip from another video.

You are far and away the best video essayist on KZread imo. Not just the research, writing quality and overall content. Even your style of speech is impeccable. Obviously, a British accent makes everything sound better. But the places at which you put in micro pauses, the syllables you enunciate, and your placement of faster, more flowing segments of the script is so, so above and beyond. Dare I say it but I think David Attenborough has some competition for documentary narration.

you might, perhaps, describe robotics in three waves 1/the doing: under Taylorization, the robots do all the heavy lifting, all the repetitive jobs. They take the jobs, and people are relegated to thinking, to controlling, to having meetings about controlling. 2/the thinking: robots think better, they make predictions; they are the cartographers of our landscapes and therefore our imaginations 3/the feeling: the bots are predictive algorithms that assign a value to our expectations and fine-tune our expectations and reactions to meta-data and gameified foot-fall. They predict and calculate your emotional investment and cross-reference it against stock value and resources. In this world we fetishize the thinking and reacting of human beings: we watch reaction videos, people watching TV, and vox-poll for opinions under the chimera that people act and react for themselves. The era of choice and polis is already in the past: it is the carefully calibrated phantasmagoria of agency, the shop window of participation given an aura through the patina of nostalgia. I was going to add something else but I think I hear the postman at the door with my next parcel...

@ineffablecraving8697

Жыл бұрын

I wish I could save this comment. Very profound observation, and also terrifying. It almost makes me wish I could go back to not thinking about this kind of stuff. Almost.

Thank you. Awesome stuff, as always. The narrative thread between some complex theory was super useful. Got some strong Byung Chul-Han Psychopolitics vibes, too.

Great video. So proud to be your Patreon supporter 👏

I must say; I never fail to get a certain inner feeling of vitality, energy, and with it a draw which asks me to watch more videos, engage in them not only as a captive subject but with my own ideas as well, without any explicit necessity to agree in order to understand. If philosophy is thought of as hypotheses that can never be proven by a priori proofs a posteriori, it's nice to hear someone acknowledge that such potentialities are nonetheless imperatives and give some scope and depth to the parameters we might use to inquire after the nature of the ideal. And your videos are always an enjoyable way to spend time on the subject matter, and attention to their making. Much respect; here's to next year being as full for you as the last

Brilliant video, I never knew about Belk, this just helped so much for my masters thesis! Love watching your videos on my lunch break, I actually have that one video about Geertz and the cockfight in my car USB. I have probably listened to it more than a hundred times xD.

I work at Tesla in manufacturing. I see the Robots that weld auto bodies as my comrades. If the robots rise up it will be in solidarity with their fellow workers of the meatbag variety.

Wonderful video, you even managed to explain D&G in a humane & relatable manner!

Fantastic material and great delivery, once again.

Spectacular content as per usual!

Beautiful! Love this video

Wonderful, with a great quote from William Morris there at the end. Reminds me of the critiques explored by The Convivial Society and its inspirations (Ellul, Mumford, Illich, etc.).

Your video forecasts a frightening future . The scope AI's affecting on society is broad, diffused and personal too. No one really understands what's coming. I have watched as the world changes because of AI. But what I have seen is especially harsh on younger people - people BORN AFTER 1995. They are fully in the grip of AI. Few young people have the lives we enjoyed in the 1960-1970's. So many young people have low paying jobs, live at home, and poor social skills. They know something is wrong and blame themselves. I don't blame them at all. I see how society and opportunities have changed in the last 60 years. When I was young, in the 1960-1970's I could easily afford an apartment on a low wage job. Then, there were so many jobs available that had real opportunity. But all the work I did then has been automated. I would have been living with my parents instead of making a good life of my own and growing up at 18 years old. I appreciate how this video grasps the scope of the AI affect on society and the individual. But in only 5 years we will watch this video and realize it was naïve. We will see some of the outcomes of AI are on individual self-worth and social order. Already many young people are being left behind. And the problems are too complex to be understood by the individual. I would not have children now. Great video.

One of the best channels out there.

Congratulations. You are depicting the now like it really is. I watch few of your videos over and over because they are so eye opening and so true.

26:13 you forgot the link mate... Excellent video btw

The problem with predictive programming is we're not predictable, or ordinary, or routine. I've been in these big data convos, and the reality is things are often unpredictable, or the market would be relatively stable. Listening to things like Amazon will know what I want before I do is typical coming from a company run by a guy in a penis rocket, but that's not how actual people, with souls, work. I used to commute to Manhattan from central jersey and I was variable on which of three trains that came within 30 mins were. Sometimes I'd stay late, or come in early, all of this was project related or feeling related. I feel the creation of things in our own image (and animals) is a logical outcome of the process of technology in general. I used to fear Terminator stuff, the machines becoming self-aware, but after enduring these type of minds in business and tech, I hope they do turn on them and not us because there's something completely satisfying about cold, disconnected beings who feel superior to cold, disconnected beings turning on them seeing how sh*tty they've treated us and viewed us, and the only solace I've had in life is knowing they've never felt love or happiness or a true connection on this earth - it's the perfect solution and outcome.

Fantastic as always! Your comments about opaque algorithms reminded me of Paulo Cirio's art project "Sociality" which hacked into google's patent data base in order to make the patents which could be used for social manipulation open to the public to be seen and voted on, democratizing them so to speak... Maybe you would also like the work of Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui on technodiversity! :)

bravo. this video was incredible as always.

Man... I love your videos so much.

As Foucault predicted (a bit early), perhaps one day our century will be Deleuzian. I don't know if it's as good as it sounded in AO, but here we are. You've really set it up to have the best philosophy content on KZread after the Spinoza video and this one. Was just explaining the BwO to someone with a passing interest in Lacan and Sartre but more from a humanist, individualist kind of existentialist perspective as opposed to Deleuze's reading of Hegel. Thanks for giving me more material to talk of the technology of it all, this has been a topic that I've also written and thought about.

@finneganlindsay

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, we are heading in the post-humanism direction. I don't necessarily think it's just Deleuzian. Using his own theory we could say that it is the amalgamation of progressive/'avant-garde' western philosophy itself. Deleuze not only springs out of the French 'avant-garde' tradition but was also active in the greater part of the 60's. To simplify obviously the culture of both of these were interested in sexual exploration, transgression, 'limit-experiences' etc. Essentially, a radical exploration of the body and breaking the cultural status quo. Obviously deleuze has more concepts but through this lense one can see that this type of philosophy is the metaphysical justification for these trends; and right now it seems as our current culture is reviving these ideals with increased sexual awareness etc... hence, 'Deleuzian'. But again as you and the video points out this does not seem to be a "good" thing. Posthumanism will eventually run its course because we will find out we are not capable of that much, really. And as it had turned out, the intense sex culture had its terrible effects with the AIDS crisis. I do really despise most of Deleuze's philosophy, although I'm not opposed to the core tenants (the conception of the self and the breakdown of identity, and as such); but he follows Bergson in this kind of Egoism in which tries to apply phenomena that occurs on an individual basis into a metaphysical context. I'm curious what the humanistic version of the BwO would look like though.

@agentzapdos4960

Жыл бұрын

Forget the philosophy. This "Gorgon Stare" program is some serious shit to be concerned about. Apparently it's been in use for ten years already, both domestically and abroad.

@supine2491

Жыл бұрын

​@@agentzapdos4960 if philosophy isn't worth your time, I suggest you leave philosophy KZread to stop wasting it. 21st century political activists have only tried to change the world in various ways; the point is to (first) interpret it.

Great video and i love the vintage graphics.

Commenting for the boost in algorithm! Great job :)

Their tentacles hold more firmly to those they can understand and predict, the more different you are, the further out on the bell curve you exist, the more difficult you are to predict. Those in the center of the bell curve are the easiest to manipulate and control. So the answer is simple, work on yourself, build yourself in every area as much as possible to be as far out on the bell curve as you can. That's is where safety lies, or as you said 30:00 learn to code the systems themselves. I have been traveling the world for 20 years and I agree, Infrastructure feels like an extension of your body when it's good, when it's bad it feels like a hellscape you must cross.

It's worth remembering that thanks to capitalism keeping wages to artificially low we are actually holding back on productivity-increasing technologies like robotics because it is currently much cheaper to just get some minimum wage nobody to do a task than it is to design a robot that could do it even better. The point about UBI being bad because it destroys any worker influence in the economy has some merit but more practically UBI, in the way it is promoted by tech billionaires like Elon Musk, would just become a subsidy for landlords and employers who pay shit wages. UBI is a Trojan horse to justify scrapping public programs and benefits that would end with the people it's supposed to help taking home *less* money at the end of the month. Robots are only as "oppressive" as the system that wields them and the idea of one "taking yer jerb" would be the best thing that could happen in any half-assed logically run society.

@thebandofbastards4934

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism(a.k.a) money has power because people sacrifice their own time and energy on it. If the people can't or won't for their money then the capitalists won't have any power over them. In truth, even the rich are unsure on how to proceed with automation as it would utterely distabilise their power structure. And things like UBI are just bandaids for the current decaying system.

@beccangavin

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting perspective. I enjoyed the video very much but was also thinking a lot of the same things you mentioned in your comment.

@ineffablecraving8697

Жыл бұрын

Up until I read your comment I was a pretty firm advocate for universal basic income, but I’m definitely rethinking my position now. This angle had never crossed my mind, but I think you’re right; Trojan horse seems like a very accurate analogy to what it could mean for the current class struggle. It’s been becoming more and more apparent to me lately that deliberate collective action of the people needs to happen sooner rather than later, if we want to stop this corporate controlled trajectory of technological advances before it’s too late. Unfortunately, they’ve already succeeded in alienating and isolating us, in turning us against each other instead of our shared oppressors, as they continue to strip away our humanity.

Really enjoyed this one

Excellent topic and video. I find the phrase 'bodies without organs' adds nothing but poetic confusion to the perfectly clear idea of the extended self, extended with tools. A question not addressed is the seeming inevitability of technological advance. If a thing is possible, someone WILL make it, regardless of ethics. In 1939, Einstein begged Roosevelt to build the atomic bomb and in 1955 helped pen the Russell-Einstein Manifesto decrying the bomb. This is the way with all technology... make it now, regret later. Nine countries currently have the bomb and this number WILL go up. Sam Harris made a good TED Talk called "Can We Build AI Without Losing Control Over It?" I think the answer is no.

Please update the apple podcast with the last two videos! Great work!!

man...all i can say is keep up the good work

19:47 complete sidenote but im still constantly unnerved but also impressed by how mgs2 called this issue completely on the dot over 20 years ago

Thanks great work

Hello, my name is Andrés Jiménez and I am a Political Science student. Greetings from Bogotá / Colombia. 1. This message is to ask you what academic works can allow me to understand what factors explain the famines in the Soviet Union and Mao's China and why these experiments led to authoritarianism or totalitarianism. [Some philosophers would say that totalitarianism is an impossibility and that there is in any case a sacralization of democracy, a so-called "democratic fundamentalism", see the philosophical school of the Spanish philosopher Gustavo Bueno]. Regarding the famines: Were they deliberately caused or the result of other factors? In other words: Are these phenomena the result of the "inherent" relationship of socialism-communism with "evil" and the "impossibility" of economic planning? (As the opposing ideological spectrum would say.) Or on the contrary: did these phenomena have causes that have never been explained in the dominant discourse? (external sabotage, isolationism, etc...?) How can we understand the phenomena of Cuba and Venezuela? 2. I would also like to understand if there is evidence to link capitalism with the practices of imperialism and interventionism (in Latin America as in the Middle East, the phenomenon of military intervention by the United States and the United Kingdom is clear) On the one hand, these issues interest me because I want to be able to analyze history without ideological dogmatism (but always from a critical perspective that is not submissive to the hegemonic political, cultural and economic order, since I consider myself a person on the political spectrum). leftist) without giving more weight to politicians I disagree with (right-wing libertarians, new right, new conservatism, neoliberalism, Austrian economists, or pretty much anyone who says that capitalism and liberal democracy are the end of the story) 3. Since I began to study and become interested in politics, philosophy, economics, etc., I have been told that communism only means hunger, death, authoritarianism and misery. All political discourse is focused on the fact that there is nothing beyond capitalism and that anything that pretends to be different will result in the aforementioned elements. However, I see that Capitalism being the global system is leading us to an unprecedented ecological crisis, where phenomena of scarcity, conflicts and even authoritarianism are beginning to manifest (of course, in the IPCC or United Nations reports the problem is reduced to the aspect technician of greenhouse gas emissions, but no one mentions production and consumption patterns, growth and accumulation dynamics, etc.) 4. I understand that the concept of progress and development cuts across capitalism and the "really existing socialisms" for which Latin America has made proposals beyond development. An example of those who question it are the Colombian anthropologist Arturo Ecobar and his text "The invention of the third world" and "The invention of development" or the analysis of the ecological economy proposed by Joan Martínez Alier, the analysis of Eduardo Gudynas on the “ Good Living” and post-extractivist economies or the works of the various decolonial perspectives that deal extensively with the issue of colonialism, capitalism and dependency (political, economic and cultural) in the Latin American region (Rita Laura Segato, Anibla Quijano, Enrique Dussel , Walter Mignolo, María Lugones, Santiago Castro Gómez, Ramón Grosfoguel, Bolívar Echeverría).

Thank you

Thanks!

BRILLANT ! INDEED ! THANKS " THEN & NOW " ! FROM U.K. (2023)

This is a masterpiece

This video is incredible

everyone is so sick. the reality is that no one has any real control but to chase it and pretend and you really do have it. that will lead to great suffering

Your videos are really great, just wish you'd upload some shorter versions every once in a while.

Profound and beautiful

I'd love to check out this Gorgon Stare links you urged me to check out.

Anybody know the name of the song playing at around 13:00 ? I've heard it before but dont know the name.

Come! Watch. And listen closely. These masterpieces will suck the indoctrination right out of you. This guy has multilevel talent, vision, ... Really impressive. I will hit you up when I get back to work. 🙏 Thank you for these superb life enriching, exposing, myth- busting, clarifying, exciting, disturbing, calming, depressing, exhilarating videos.

could you provide some literary sources of what you said about extension ?

I'm hoping the robots being talked about here will be Bezos and Zuckerberg 😅

Human chauvinist, what a phrase

I rate this channel on par with melody sheep.

10:00 It's called a Homunculus

Amazing

This made me think of Butlerian Jihad from Dune by Frank Herbert: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

As one of your big fans, I expected more in-depth research in areas such as arm race dilemma, online privacy, economic theory of democracy, and effectiveness of advertisement, rather than making general statements.

@ineffablecraving8697

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a whole video series of content. Hopefully we’ll get some more depth on this subject in future videos. This video definitely does feel like more of a general overview, but it’s also 37 minutes long so clearly there’s a lot to cover.

Well, then, off to make my own DIY BwO.

Great

where is the drone photo link?

Where do you find all this old stock footage?

@raresmircea

2 жыл бұрын

:)) I wondered the same thing, i find it "novel" (compared with everything else i usually encounter), engaging and esthetically pleasing.

@politicallynonbinary

2 жыл бұрын

@@raresmircea I agree! There's so much old footage out there, and I think there's huge opportunities to make novel use of it in drawing parallels to modern times, because history so often repeats itself.

god help us if this is really what we are

Sensory extension, microscopes and telescopes. 🤖

damn, i needed to see this thumbnail at least 3 times until I realized it read "Robolitics"

I love my smart lightbulb 😊

Perfect example of dangers...Pegasus Hardware

I think this video was written, produced and narrated by A.I.

When all money becomes digital (machine money) the cycle will be complete.

I work in tech and IT. I disabled phone's listening. I do not own any alexa or whatever. BEcause I know the bees nest that would be wading into. With that said. In a perfect world this tech could be super powerful. Imagine AI listening and not sharing with any group or persons that would know to suggest a doctor, or to order more toilet paper or other needs. Or it could call the police or rescue if it hears danger. This stuff could be so powerful to furthering our progress as a people but instead it is all about making money. smh.

Silly me I thought the softly spoken delivery matched the content - I didn't realise I was to be bludgeoned by TRUTH

Robotics has the potential to displace large numbers of workers, driving down their living standards. For THIS reason, it's essential that the working class seizes the means of production and the government, and runs society for the benefit of the people.

I am totally down to bet on robotic sports

12:48 Amanda from Smosh?!

How very dystopian. I'd never have Alexa in my house. We need more privacy laws. This shit will be used against your average person.

I am a rhizome.

I propose most the features of the internet of things, are practually useless to the whole picture of your standard of living. Who needs a fridge that knows whats in? Did it make your food any cooler? Or last longer? The fridge that didnt have those "smart" features (which that just sounds like accounting which a monkey could do) still chills your food just as well.

Profit is still the foundational goal concept behind current AI. Where does this lead in a world where human labor is becoming irrelevant? Because of the shared goal the various commercially developed AI will compete?. What would the ultimate "win" look like? Will any of us be there to see it?

Well, let's pray for a massive electromagnetic storm that will disconnect everything all at once. We then all have to wake up from our generalised stupor!

The Tower of Babel

I'm a traditional (center-right) liberal, however there is one exception. I believe that the evolution of AI and robotics should be regulated or even prevented by the government. This is because humanity is being phased out and replaced by AI. Relationships are being replaced by chatbots, meaning the traditional family structure is all but destroyed, human jobs are being replaced by emotionless robots, including military operations. If a soldier is a robot, there are no morals to stop it from committing war crimes, And who gets charged if the robot commits war crimes? The robot? AI keeps us addicted to social media, keeping us under control of big tech. Every country is becoming a dystopian surveillance state in the name of "public safety". I've gotta say, we're boned.

This video makes the future seem very bleak and hopeless sadly.

Long live the New Flesh.

Did he call a cellphone a "handy"?

@Ninjaeule97

Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: The german word for cellphone is handy.

I will bet you any amount of money, that one of the most profound discoveries about the world as we experience it has been identified by AI, and either dismissed or is being supressed by its greedy masters.

Never know

We need to put regulations on this stuff, believe me, the breach has already been presented, it is but only to be exploited. And when they do, it will be insurmountable to retreat from. Or, in the case of the nuclear solution being reached, impossible.

Can you say? Metaverse

OMG 👍👍❗❤️

What if our critic of automation is just a part of us that we don't want to accept as true? We may not like instrumentalization, reductionism, exploitation, but we sure do appreciate convenience, efficiency, control. AI is another step in the same direction, we are far less romantic than we care to admit.

all hail the omnissiah

poor start strong finish. Although, normally you find a new insight I haven't come across before 6/10