Look we all fell unsettled by this concept in our current climate...
But you know as soon as attractive rich people start getting that shit installed in their heads every ounce of taboo or criticism will fly right out the window.
Society is run by tits and ass. Dancing in stupid little videos.
See this is the shit. I never would either. But Iām also against AI. Not on principle, but just based on the state of the world, tech companies, capitalism, complete disregard for human dignity, etc.
But itās interesting because pushing back against AI or this stupid shit, people scream āanti progress!ā and nonsense like that. Hey, Iām all for machines that could end human labor. Butā¦thatās not where weāre going. Not any of the available information should lead anyone to believe that AI will do anything but help the rich become richer, spur on productivity while relegating humans to menial maintenance work. We arenāt moving toward UBI and life of leisure and art. Weāre barreling toward dystopian cyberpunk hellscape.
How can anyone think implants will do anything or serve anyone except advertisers and data collection companies? Have we gotten smarter since we had access to all data in our pockets? No. Weāve gotten dumber and meaner and angrier and more depressed and disillusioned than ever. Butā¦weāre pressing that pedal all the way to the floor, huh? Quadrupling down on this fucked up life to further alienate ourselves from everyone else and beam shitty memes and angry Twitter screeds directly into our brains. Nah. Thanks.
Call me when youāve toppled capitalism. Then Iāll be down for helpful workhorse AI andā¦well, I still probably wouldnāt put a chip in my brain. But either way, this isnāt anti-progress. This is pragmatic realism and pessimism about furthering tech douchesā visions for humanity.
Oh, and the planet is still fixing to cook us alive. Can weā¦figure that out first? Thatād be greeeat.
Goddamn tech bros lose it at anyone who doesnāt full heartedly embrace their Star Trek aesthetic that has no Star Trek principles underlying it. They want us to act like they personally brought us to the year 2300 when really weāre not even at the Bell riots yet.
Have we gotten smarter since we had access to all data in our pockets? No.
That's a really tough thing to answer, because first you'd have to define what you mean by "smarter". The biggest problem with talk about intelligence (artificial or otherwise) is that different people have different ideas of what it is, and a lot of people can't even nail down what they mean, much less agree with anybody else on what it is.
Weāve gotten dumber and meaner and angrier and more depressed and disillusioned than ever.
Sure doesn't look that way to me. Compare QAnon to the Satanic Panic. Or 9-11 conspiracy theories to JFK conspiracy theories. Sure, it's much easier to spread bullshit than ever before, but it's also easier to debunk bullshit than ever before.
Compare QAnon to the Satanic Panic. Or 9-11 conspiracy theories to JFK conspiracy theories. Sure, itās much easier to spread bullshit than ever before, but itās also easier to debunk bullshit than ever before.
ā¦is it? I donāt think it is. In the 60s, you didnāt have JFK conspiracy theorists in office. On tv. Yeah, Satanic Panic was based on junk science and was being hawked on the news. But we still have that still today plus people who think the stuff that used to be in supermarket tabloids AND THEN SOMEāand itās a not insignificant number. Sure, there have always been crazy people, but their delusions didnāt spread so widely, werenāt accepted by impactful blocs of people amassing power.
I mean, youāre right. Itās impossible to quantify. And it seems weāre pretty much limiting this discussion to the US, so look at all the studies showing the deep division. Look at the far flung conspiracy theories becoming mainstream. Look at the level of political discourse. Look at test scores. Look at the out of control crises going on every day.
My point is this tech and access was supposed to have made us smarter. And it absolutely did not do that. Weāre just as dumb if not much dumber. I mean, statistically, we are dumber. Unhappier, more disillusioned and depressed and anxious and pessimistic than ever. Sure, itās possible weāre not worse off than before and now weāre just measuring these things more acutely. It the point is weāve advanced leaps and bounds and the idea is that the tech was supposed to better us. Instead, it heightened inequality and hurt us all. Mentally and physically.
