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maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

What strikes me about the present moment is that it feels like particularly bad timing.

I’m not so sure that technological developments follow a well defined path and like to think about what alternative timelines would look like, especially with humanity being better prepared for them.

For instance, I’ve figured for a long time that the internet was a few decades earlier than it should have been for our social and political development. Probably TV too.

AI just feels 100s of years too early. Like we’re only just getting to grips with post-capitalism and climate change as ideas let alone problems we can solve.

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halm@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Quite agree, but there is the other POV that “AI” has emerged just at the right time to distract us from doing anything about climate change and rampant late stage capitalism… That is of course the perspective of capitalist entities that really need to wrench another few decades of profit out of us before we die in sundry environmental disasters.

See also, “why it would be really convenient if we could upload our minds to a metaverse while the world burns and billionaires escape to Mars”.

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t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I think this is actually advantageous to us in a way, because clearly AI is something of a system shock to many people right now, whereas in a hundred years it may have not been nearly as apparent as the danger it is (and I don’t mean LLMs, I mean AI in general, especially for surveillance and weapons).

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- maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yea I hear. We’ll see I guess.
  
  Personally, I’m seeing much more falling in line instincts than anything else and fear that any “shock” and reaction is confined to bubbles without any solid culture and infrastructure to break out into any sort of effective movement.
  
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  - t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Luckily, revolutions have never required the majority of a populace to actively participate in to succeed, just a majority going “meh, sure”.
    
    But yes, I am personally also very worried that we’re reaching a point with technology that surveillance and violence will both be too easily applied and too pervasive for the revolution to overcome.
    
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