I'm fighting—and I'm not alone—to raise awareness about data sovereignty and privacy, which stand in the way of Big Tech and governments' obsession with exploitation and control.
People are slowly realizing that centralization, accelerationism, data exploitation, automation, and artificial intelligence are taking many things away from them: jobs, identity, freedom, and privacy.
There are those who are already saying no; the most aware are arming themselves and will be the first to act in self-defense, and the critical mass will follow soon after. Am I being naive? I don’t think so—or at least I hope not—because that’s how it’s always been in the history of innovation.
Good question. I hope, the parent doesn't mean literal arms, that would make him a willing or unwitting troll.
Skynet was always a matter of time, it's simple systemic determinism. What we can do about it isn't as simple, unfortunately. It's possible to do something but it's neither simple, nor glamorous or painless, it would require people prepared for both complexities and hard life. Are there enough of them around? I dunno.
Skynet is a Cold-War era anxiety creation in the theme of "creation turns against creator", with roots in much older stories, like the Greek myth of Talos, the Prometheus myth, the Jewish golem legend, Frankenstein.
Why do you think Skynet (with its specific consequences) is a foregone conclusion?
> Why do you think Skynet (with its specific consequences) is a foregone conclusion?
Because we see it happening in real time? Hardware hoarding, scalping and centralization. Government not in control but under. Nobody doing anything remotely capable of stopping it. What other evidence do you want?
I wouldn't take that for granted.
I'm fighting—and I'm not alone—to raise awareness about data sovereignty and privacy, which stand in the way of Big Tech and governments' obsession with exploitation and control.
People are slowly realizing that centralization, accelerationism, data exploitation, automation, and artificial intelligence are taking many things away from them: jobs, identity, freedom, and privacy.
There are those who are already saying no; the most aware are arming themselves and will be the first to act in self-defense, and the critical mass will follow soon after. Am I being naive? I don’t think so—or at least I hope not—because that’s how it’s always been in the history of innovation.
Arming themsleves how?
> Arming themsleves how?
Good question. I hope, the parent doesn't mean literal arms, that would make him a willing or unwitting troll.
Skynet was always a matter of time, it's simple systemic determinism. What we can do about it isn't as simple, unfortunately. It's possible to do something but it's neither simple, nor glamorous or painless, it would require people prepared for both complexities and hard life. Are there enough of them around? I dunno.
Skynet is a Cold-War era anxiety creation in the theme of "creation turns against creator", with roots in much older stories, like the Greek myth of Talos, the Prometheus myth, the Jewish golem legend, Frankenstein.
Why do you think Skynet (with its specific consequences) is a foregone conclusion?
> Why do you think Skynet (with its specific consequences) is a foregone conclusion?
Because we see it happening in real time? Hardware hoarding, scalping and centralization. Government not in control but under. Nobody doing anything remotely capable of stopping it. What other evidence do you want?
What a nonsense. Didn't you read the babylon tower parable? Spoiler alert: no winners, just another economical disaster waiting to happen.
Can't help but think of Nick Land's Meltdown when I see a title like that.