As late capital descends into a dark age of cyberfeudalism, the people licensed to decide are tending toward changes which enable brute force above regimes of ideological complicity. The essence of rapid evolution in #AI lies in the desperate desire of oligarchs and their sycophants to enforce their decisions with mechanical reliability. This precisely because the limits of human discipline under ideological fatalism have probably been reached.
Consent can only be manufactured so far.
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Shufei 🫠
In response to this postSo 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.
Whither 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.
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