I Told You So
My quote from 2019
“I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very close. Once we reach the singularity, If we have the same motivations we have now — primarily power over people — things are going to be horrific” – George Hotz
How is everyone enjoying their singularity? How far is this going to go? Why are we letting the minds that invented fastpass run things? Who are we doing this all for again?
We live in a society. It seems a lot of people have forgotten this. So much stuff that’s being built just shouldn’t be built. You know technology could be good, right? It could all be like this and not like this.
Is everyone individually too weak to defect? Sounds like we need a revolution.
Update: someone in a tweet linked to schizoposting, 11 essays on culture by Alaric.
The future on this track is a dizzying spiral into an eternal war over nothing, lacking even the possibility of heroism or the grounding reality of pain. It is the recentering of power in such a sense that the very existence of power comes into question; it is totalitarian disorder, novel insanities as public religion, a paperclip machine for wetware whose sole purpose is the prosecution of a conflict long forgotten by even its leaders, fought in the liminal subconscious alone. It is the cryostatic suspension of mankind.
It makes clear the problem isn’t AI, it’s culture, and it describes the problem far more clearly than I can – a more modern update of this, which is also worth reading. The 2014 revolution was so real and it’s nice to see it described as such. How do we change this? Where is the soft gooey center we can strike at? How do we form a tribe against it?
