Wārith al-Dīn on Nostr: In the context of OpenAI's recent announcement: The hypercapitalist future is only ...
In the context of OpenAI's recent announcement:
The hypercapitalist future is only just beginning.
The cyberpunk futures famously dreamt up – Altered Carbon, 2077, Blade Runner – approach. The corporations listed here will run a fraction, media will have its fraction, commerce its fraction. The corporations remain stratified for now, there is still enough power in the federal government to possibly antitrust their dreams away. When Oracle, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia control the back-end of society in unity; with Meta and an enslaved TikTok exerting front-end domination; Amazon, Apple, Google running the commerce, advertising, and the social AI world; and the three large equity players like Blackrock and Fidelity and Vanguard controlling where the fiat-dollar goes and what it's worth; we may see consolidation yet.
Fear not, they already function as one. That they will set their eyes on a stronger currency of control is inevitable. We are approaching a very boring, quiet dystopia. Medicine will be fully commercialized. The arts will be brutalized. Human wit will be written out. A dajjalic future wherein it is physically real but reality is just a subversion of truth at every turn. It won't be so colorful and technological as some dream. They dreamt in the 20th century of flying cars and living on the moon. We dream now of cybernetic arms and exporting computerized consciousness to husks. It will be boring and gray. Gray with an A, not an E, on a global level.
The children will have genius level understanding of technology but not a clue in the world of true knowledge. More than ever your born class will dictate your future. People will willfully abdicate their power, even perhaps their weaponry, for a future promising security and greatness. And it will all be boring. Don't dream of Arisaka Tower, don't dream of never-ending life as a digital conscious. It will be today, just more enslaved, people lonely and hoping for an artificial spouse who can fix that. Nothing will change but it will all look different.
There is no preventing this, no running from it. Either the end times come first or we will live to taste the beginnings and our children and their children will be born into a lived reality. Islam, then, is fortitude. Protection against the Gray. Navigation in a changing world, just as the world changed before. We must adapt to it. Find a SAIF watering hole, or be assimilated.
The hypercapitalist future is only just beginning.
The cyberpunk futures famously dreamt up – Altered Carbon, 2077, Blade Runner – approach. The corporations listed here will run a fraction, media will have its fraction, commerce its fraction. The corporations remain stratified for now, there is still enough power in the federal government to possibly antitrust their dreams away. When Oracle, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia control the back-end of society in unity; with Meta and an enslaved TikTok exerting front-end domination; Amazon, Apple, Google running the commerce, advertising, and the social AI world; and the three large equity players like Blackrock and Fidelity and Vanguard controlling where the fiat-dollar goes and what it's worth; we may see consolidation yet.
Fear not, they already function as one. That they will set their eyes on a stronger currency of control is inevitable. We are approaching a very boring, quiet dystopia. Medicine will be fully commercialized. The arts will be brutalized. Human wit will be written out. A dajjalic future wherein it is physically real but reality is just a subversion of truth at every turn. It won't be so colorful and technological as some dream. They dreamt in the 20th century of flying cars and living on the moon. We dream now of cybernetic arms and exporting computerized consciousness to husks. It will be boring and gray. Gray with an A, not an E, on a global level.
The children will have genius level understanding of technology but not a clue in the world of true knowledge. More than ever your born class will dictate your future. People will willfully abdicate their power, even perhaps their weaponry, for a future promising security and greatness. And it will all be boring. Don't dream of Arisaka Tower, don't dream of never-ending life as a digital conscious. It will be today, just more enslaved, people lonely and hoping for an artificial spouse who can fix that. Nothing will change but it will all look different.
There is no preventing this, no running from it. Either the end times come first or we will live to taste the beginnings and our children and their children will be born into a lived reality. Islam, then, is fortitude. Protection against the Gray. Navigation in a changing world, just as the world changed before. We must adapt to it. Find a SAIF watering hole, or be assimilated.