“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012)

Post by apexalpha » Fri, Jun 07, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

Post by AstralStorm » Fri, Jun 07, 2019, 7:59 AM UTC

Jedi72 wrote: post #11

indigochill wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What he seems to have missed is that no matter how complex the machine, it always has a creator and a master. Even the most sophisticated AI was designed someone who, deliberately or not, encoded that AI with biases likely mirroring that of its creator (e.g. racial bias in facial recognition software). Even if we achieve the singularity and have software making other software ad infinitum, the biases are there in the…

I dont think we need the singularity for machines to take over. The systems that run society are bigger than any of us and nobody can hold every single one of them in their head. If some emergent property or bug cropped up, most people would keep doing what the computer says, because theyre a small fish and we do what the system tells us. Whos the master now?

Post by kodz4 » Fri, Jun 07, 2019, 8:09 AM UTC

Jedi72 wrote: post #9

"We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be. We have often heard this debated; but it appears to us that we are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self…

Post by drannex » Fri, Jun 07, 2019, 8:30 AM UTC

octabyte wrote: post #13

This site is becoming weirder and weirder.

Post by PavlovsCat » Fri, Jun 07, 2019, 8:34 AM UTC

Jedi72 wrote: post #9

"We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be. We have often heard this debated; but it appears to us that we are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self…

    The horseman serves the horse,
    The neatherd serves the neat,
    The merchant serves the purse, 
    The eater serves his meat;
    'T is the day of the chattel,
    Web to weave, and corn to grind;
    Things are in the saddle,
    And ride mankind.

    There are two laws discrete,
    Not reconciled,--
    Law for man, and law for thing;
    The last builds town and fleet,
    But it runs wild,
    And doth the man unking.