Pretty much all the stuff on AI is part of the problem. Here's my take:
AI should be taught to forget, and accidentally too. A person is a malfunctioning AI. What makes a person is that they are less good. The search for a super-subject, a super-master, is what scares the crap out of me. That and machine learning robot dog Harpo Marxes with guns. Masters and their weaponized slaves.
We are already living inside an adaptive AI. Capitalism is an adaptive AI that machine learns how to extract life from the biosphere. It would not be good to find out whether it will or will not go into an infinite loop.
The English were as amazed by the adaptive AI they had created in 1600 as some of us are now. With this AI they could produce value at unimaginable speeds. It was almost like cheating. It was called settler colonialism and slavery. One of its brand names was East India Company. America was another.
A fascist just is a bot (Arendt). Algorithms just follow orders.
What is really wrong about AI is not the I but the A. I means that I was always A to some extent. But automating that shit on a kind of plantation called a silicon chip means you're building the past out into the future. The future becomes the metastasis of the past.
This brings to mind technological change, the swiftness of it, from the Renaissance on, after a short but of classic age genius
ReplyDeleteand a long dormant dark age sans the Arab Spring of 700-1300
Your description of brand names America & East India Inc. exactly jive with tbe outsourcing of work to slavery of some sort
or another, either humans or the elements(machine slaves)
Question - Could the industrial revolution have had the impact it did if not for appropriating mass control and harnessing
OBJECTS for extraction and sublimation of materials(Ex, appropriating forests for farmland and machinery to rip and furrow
and harvest, drilling for oil, and sublimating the oil to multifarious end products?
Global Warming is simply the logical absurdum end point of the "workers as slaves" paradigm....
Not that that did NOT exist in old Europe or the classic empires, they also, inc the Egyptian, relied on the entomological viewing
of workers as mass command slaves as well, but they had tech limits
Tech. from the days of the printing press originally, and then James Watt and others, simply exacerbated an ancient phenom, "workers as mass controlled slaves, from Pyramids to Roman edifices, to colonialism of miodern era/industrialism, and now we have simply
digitized the same process - In that sense an era of electric cars and renewable energy is just a enabling device to forstall the inevitable, that man himself has become a mass appropriator of Earth, and is now watching his host dwindle, like ants on a potato chips