Fractured musings on Tech, Humanity,
AI / 1 (the dark edit:))
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Does AI dream of humans or of being human?
* Jules Verne – I devoured his books as a child, dreaming myself into his world. Captain Nemo in his "Nautilus" - my ideal father figure. As the first author to center scientific and technological processes in his novels, he depicts a world where people live in peace and respect within a technological adventure. Technology is employed as an extension of human capability – but above all, to protect the human essence. Tech optimism as a shaping influence.
* "Paris in the Twentieth Century" - the tragic struggle of an idealistic young man for happiness within a relentlessly materialistic dystopia that the French capital has become by 1960. Jules Verne's last book, published posthumously in 1994.
* Mastering a prosthesis requires dealing with loss. My Friend in the wheelchair serves as a teacher, showing us that growth is multidimensional, and that real beauty is decouplet from standarts. How do the not constrained, handle losses: the loss of privacy, the loss of faith in liberal democracy, the loss of a naïve, utopian worldview amidst concerns for the future ? („Be more resillient!“)
* Belief in technology and AI presupposes a deterministic tech optimism
* I see a disappearance of our motivation to shape our future. Do we leave it to Technocrats to define how our world will look in the future?
* Extremism fills the void created by a lack of education – obsessive AI usage through their Fallibility can fuel new forms of extremism.
* The changing significance of technology: from industrial techniques that standardize to a technological postmodernity that reaches for singularity – the special, the spectacle, even. What remains still special for us today?
* Democracy cherishes the individual, while in a dictatorship, the individual is irrelevant. Does the same apply to technocracy?
* Technocrats want to reduce bureaucracy, but replace Huamans with *merciless AI pedants.
