“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, October 31, 2015

Machines Are Out to Get Us, Because We Are Out to Get Stuff

Isn't this the basic problem with most AI fascination/horror? Aka anthropocentrism? Here's Ian again.

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