So of course the oligarchy looks to the Terminator films as a template for the world they desire. Humans under high modernity were still herded by other humans, however enhanced by technology. In the new order, humans will be herded directly by machine. The significance of #AI is to a full spectrum elite curation of society, force applied at every level: physical, social, philosophical, emotional. They will find all the buttons we have and push them.
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In response to this postWhither then, when even marginal rebellion is inhumanly circumscribed? In the end, the only remaining dignity is not to comply. “No”.
This era fancies ethical dilemmas like the trolley problem. But these thought experiments predicate an empowered agency which will no longer be available to us soon. What we need to consider are *unempowered* agencies, which appeal to a higher level of entropy to which even regimes of mechanical steel must obey in time. Regimes fall. New things do occur.
If we are to be fatalistic, we should *choose* the parameters of our fatalism. If we are bound to regimes of coercion and force, the ethical imperative of trolley dilemmas *fails* us. When someone… some *thing*… has a gun to your head, sometimes the only dignified decision is to refuse all compliance, regardless of any consequential argument.
This is to say, the hypermodern says “trolley dilemma”. But there is a deeper level of recourse - a diamond hard “no” to the entire game.
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