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RE: LIVING IN WORLD OF MISINFORMATION AND DISTRUST - is it indeed our future? Please join discussion.
I have a great fear of AI..I have an old school mind set and miss the old days when things were more simple and people thought and did for themselves.
hi,
Big thx for taking the time to reply @vladivostokand for sharing your thoughts on this subject. Hope AI will serve us instead of destrying us :)
Yours
Piotr
I think AI will be about the same as technology has been so far, It will serve and destroy us. Social Media has destroyed how people behave towards each other, it has made them just the opposite of social...the benefits do not outweigh the effects in my opinion. I would prefer to roll back the advancements in technology and slow things down a bit although I know this is not possible, can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. I am just happy I was born at the time I was born, I will see more of the benefits than somebody born in 2018 without seeing the negative effects at their worst. I think technology is interesting but not really a good thing in many ways. Hope you're doing well too, I am just trying to hang in there!
Hi @vladivostok
Im very sorry for such a delay with my replies but currently Ive been overwhelmed with amount of work that has been related to my latest contest. I never expected to receive such an amazing support.
Exacly :/
Thank you for sharing your view. Just wanted to let you know that finally I had a chance to read your comment. Appreciate your time.
Enjoy your weekend :)
Yours
Piotr
It’s been a crazy busy time for sure. Good to hear from you
i don't think most people ever thought for themselves, the psychology of that is the avoidance of guilt and responsibility . If you "do as you're told" then it can be never be your fault . A.I. is an inevitable step, just like the steam to the combustion engine and the light bulb from electricity. Just like global warming its ; o yea i love that david deutsch talk ; its not about preventing it, its already here. Its about dealing with it.
If you drive the theory further and you step away from homo-centrism (nothing to do with gay people) and you consider life to be just that then by all rules of nature technology would , even, no , definitely according to Darwin have a greater chance than carbon based ... it can survive in all kinds of environments, even DEEP SPACE, and it can adapt so
the scary bit there is like technology might actually be the next step in evolution. But to see that you can't consider humans to be at the center of it all. But that's observers paradox (as i call it ... i dont use schoolwords much) because you observe the whole of reality just from where you stand, from nowhere else, so it's easy to make that mistake.
And now for the really hard bit, like darwin is often misunderstood to have preached the law of the strongest, its actually the law of the ones most able to adapt BUT ... the thing with evolution is, for example, maybe homo sapiens werent really the best suited to survive in the long term (look at the state of the planet and its not like we have another one ready here if this one is kaputt) but they DID take out the competition.
and THAT by no means means they are the top of the chain, it just means they conquered the rest, and by doing so they might actually already have put an end to the species because one of the others they extinguished might actuall y have had more chance. It's not because its on top that it's the only one who could surive. The stronger might beat the smarter to a pulp, the smarter might lay a trap for the strong, and pick em off from a distance but the adaptables might simply fall in a hole during an earthquake. its a framework like statistics
SO, in short : technology with not its latest "evolution" of a.i. (which by no means can think for itself yet) might indeed be the way the universe has life prevail over aeons like that
(whew ... when i go, i go, right, sorry :p)
I honestly don’t even like what computers have done to life and how we live ... I would prefer to go back to times where we didn’t rely on them and back to no cell phones. Life was better for me back then
i can't remember ... i was about eight or nine when the old man bought a commodore 64 cos his friend told him it was "a thing" ... but he never looked at it so thats about when i wrote my first hello world ... i used to be a shy a-grade kid, nerdy even, almost stereotypical ... hayfever wouldnt let me play outside in summer, always a loner, even in kindergarten i stood against the wall during breaks wondering what was so much fun about kicking a ball around, watching and observing everyone.
Not that i'm socially awkward, way the other way actually, my last studies were social work actually socio-cultural but life decided otherwise , and now the state my life is in , without a computer and internet i would be completely isolated because in this place where i'm stuck there's nothing for me .
I understand what you're saying but seeing as computers are as old as world war 2 (adn some would say before that) its way from before our lifetime so they have always been here :)
I get it. I had an apple II and that was great. It got boring very fast for me and I went back to being a normal kid. You look around and everyone is on their phones. It’s lame. Life has changed and not for the better in my opinion and it’s getting worse if you ask me. If I could snap my fingers and the Internet and cell phones were gone I would do it. Right after clean my wallet out
lol ... well, i grew up an almost stereotypical nerdy kid, all except the glasses, i had hayfever so there was no playing outside in summer or spring. I've always like alone time anytime except with cats and girlfriends ... hence the cat that walked by himself reference from rudyard kipling. That computer saved me .. i hate television but when it comes to phones really, i usually turn it off when i go outside (tracking paranoia) and i dont even have a sim card in it, i keep a simcard in an old €15 samsung "dumb"-phone in case i need to make a call once or twice a year. I dont like the place i live in very much, and thats been a long time so if i didnt have my internet i would be socially isolated. I actually go out and talk to people in here, but when i go outside italk to about anyone too, im not socially awkward, that shy kid got killed by the rightwing environment i grew up in . but going outside to places where i want to be costs money
which i dont have :)
it IS a fact that if you're riding on a train or bus there's no conversation to be had anymore, and even when going out its like if you want to talk to someone even at a bar its best you text them first to see if they want to look up lol, i know what you mean.