"I dread the day when technology overtakes our humanity. The world will only have one generation of idiots."
Albert Einstein
Discussion
That’s already happened, but this quote is ignorant to the fact that technology can also be used as a tool to liberate and empower individuals, it connect us all towards a goal of achieving a global consciousness, that’s in my eyes what the Internet and Bitcoin is a step towards… further complexity and connectivity.
I partially agree.
Ted Kaczynski just like the cypherpunks knew how to see that technology would be used against us, only the cypherpunks believed it could be solved with the use of cryptography. At this point I am quite skeptical. I believe that through cryptography we will be able to have some freedom in isolated parts of our lives but not all people will be able to use these tools.
There is no distinction between nature and technology, technology is just following the universal law of novelty, look at the early stages of the universe for example, it started off as hot paslma and after billions of years of cooling, began to complexify into denser and more stable structures, now look around you with technology, it follows the exact same pattern of novelty, technology is just a neutral thing, for as long as you have imagination, open sourced software and a free will then the path of enslavement cannot take place, because truth always prevails. The truth does not require your participation in order to exist, bullshit does.
Where’s the distinction between artificial intelligence and intelligence? If it’s intelligent what makes it artificial?
It’s my personal belief that with certain technologies such as Ai, it will simplify our life to a point where we are enriched with imagination, because if non creative and automated stuff is being driven by machines that leaves us with spare time, we end up looking inward for ideas and are forced to use our imagination.
But nature is cruel, and the advance of technology will also be cruel in many ways.
Nature eventually finds equilibrium, and I believe Darwin’s theories are right but also flawed, the key to a species survival is adaptation and cooperation, we don’t survive without technology. It’s that simple.
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