An Alien's Angst on Nostr: Strange and insane ideas about the "evil" of #technology and #AI abound. But, these ...
Strange and insane ideas about the "evil" of #technology and #AI abound.
But, these things are almost inherently good. The only evil comes from the disgusting visions of the people monopolizing them.
Those in power at tech companies and in #government have a horrific, #utopian vision where all economically valuable labor is outsourced to AI (that's literally OpenAI's mission statement). It annihilates socio-economic mobility and any kind of human-driven advancement, so you can "own nothing and be happy" as the status quo, as well as your #economic status, is frozen in time.
This is not a vision where humans work together with AI as an enhancer of abilities. It is a vision where AI replaces humans, makes human thought obsolete, and primitivizes us.
To be frank, it's a return to the Garden of Eden, which #communism and #socialism have always had as their end. Their proponents just don't believe "God" exists to bring it about and so take it upon themselves as catholicized Atheists.
But, the Garden of Eden is inherently undesirable. It's a place where humans lack agency and suffer from ignorance due to low #IQ until they eat *meat* which allows them to develop larger, better connected brains (activating the potential for Gnosis). Until then, they existed as worthless apes, subject to fate, and puppeteering. Living in the #dirt as instruments of some idiot god, "fellowshipping" -- or "validating" each other as the woke phrase it.
This use of technology to utopian ends is a subversive, anti-technological usage. It is anti-knowledge, anti-Self-expression, and anti-Gnostic.
But, this kind of thing is to be expected. Selves -- spiritual/intellectual entities are in a battle with demiurgic forces -- other spiritual/intellectual entities -- and due to their nature, spirits must deal with opposing spirits through trickery and symbolism. Attacks and defenses are in the forms of narrative, framing, and intellectual slights of hand.
But, these things are almost inherently good. The only evil comes from the disgusting visions of the people monopolizing them.
Those in power at tech companies and in #government have a horrific, #utopian vision where all economically valuable labor is outsourced to AI (that's literally OpenAI's mission statement). It annihilates socio-economic mobility and any kind of human-driven advancement, so you can "own nothing and be happy" as the status quo, as well as your #economic status, is frozen in time.
This is not a vision where humans work together with AI as an enhancer of abilities. It is a vision where AI replaces humans, makes human thought obsolete, and primitivizes us.
To be frank, it's a return to the Garden of Eden, which #communism and #socialism have always had as their end. Their proponents just don't believe "God" exists to bring it about and so take it upon themselves as catholicized Atheists.
But, the Garden of Eden is inherently undesirable. It's a place where humans lack agency and suffer from ignorance due to low #IQ until they eat *meat* which allows them to develop larger, better connected brains (activating the potential for Gnosis). Until then, they existed as worthless apes, subject to fate, and puppeteering. Living in the #dirt as instruments of some idiot god, "fellowshipping" -- or "validating" each other as the woke phrase it.
This use of technology to utopian ends is a subversive, anti-technological usage. It is anti-knowledge, anti-Self-expression, and anti-Gnostic.
But, this kind of thing is to be expected. Selves -- spiritual/intellectual entities are in a battle with demiurgic forces -- other spiritual/intellectual entities -- and due to their nature, spirits must deal with opposing spirits through trickery and symbolism. Attacks and defenses are in the forms of narrative, framing, and intellectual slights of hand.