What makes you think the "Whitelash" contingent won't be early adopters
(too)?
I was suckered into the MAD principle 40 years ago or more and it took
at least a decade at LANL (obliquely) helping with that mission (and the
fall of the Soviet Union and being in the semi-personal presence of the
Dali Lama and ???) for me to realize that it MAD might have just been
exactly what it sounded like a "mad" strategy? We have survived it
(avoided cataclysm in any case) so far... but with US/PRK and gawd knows
what else (Syria/US/RU? - Israel/Iran) all squaring off with a 4th
grade oligarch running one faction and a punk-ass macho oligarch running
another other and a bona-fide nutcase running the PRK, who knows what is
next?
Bio/Neuro/Computer tech is in an arms race for sure... maybe such races
are a given and can't be avoided, so the best plan is to try to come out
on top? But I also have the vague feeling of "my headlights are too
dim, I'd better drive faster and get to my destination as soon as possible!"
I keep hoping for Vernor Vinge's "Bobbling" technology to appear and
kick us into a "anti-time-race" instead?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marooned_in_Realtime
A great (alternative) take on RK's Technological Singularity
Utopia/Dystopia.
- Steve
On 4/26/17 11:04 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I think it is very likely that there will soon be technologies like `neural
lace', artificial intelligence, and biotech that can change the balance of
power in fundamental ways. One might argue it has already happened, and the
latest whitelash was just the last gasp of an obsolete part of our
civilization. That works for me. Let's go.
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Steve writes:
"Who are we becoming?"
In spite of the Steve Bannon's of the world, whatever the hell we want.
Marcus
I have always operated on this tenet myself, but have observed others seeming to fail at that task.
Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" and many other books on propoganda and social
manipulation (right down to the fine grain of NLP) seem to suggest that "whatever the hell we
want"
might be a bit slipperier than I *want* it to be? Others' failures (as
observed through my lens) and my own (younger) self's failure both serve as a
cautionary tale for me on this subject.
I think Glen's weigh in (covered in another post to follow) is
salient. The "vagueness of self" or more aptly the oxymoron of "(each
hu)man is an Island"?
- Steve
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