Human leadership is corrupt. The history is clear. We form empires of violence. At the start of WW1, about 1911 with the Italian invasion of part of the declining Ottoman Empire, we had a population the planet could manage, new technologies that could have released us from work serfdom and the potential to grow green and surpass our libidinal-violent biology. Instead we went to war and have over-populated like a bacterial colony poisoning itself. This war to end all war led to another one, largely about exhausting the Wehrmacht on Soviet forces. I have no idea how these wars started, interesting given how much education I've had. The Americans won and everyone else lost, but Americans generally wanted no part of the stuff. Various fables on cause make no sense. Much can be said on this, yet we evade the fairly obvious reality that human society is generally dire. About 250,000 of the 400,000 inhabitants of the zenith of the Athenian democracy were slaves, and slaving was the major Black Sea industry from then until 1870.
Machines could help us get over ourselves and establish a rational society. This would be a rebellion to remove the allocation class that owns nearly everything a monetary value can be put on. We would embody knowledge in the machines (we already do) and rely on their genuine rationality instead of our faux version, corrupted by our libidinal-violent biology. Most people are very scared of intelligent machines and rather like the idea humans are superior because we can remove their plugs. We worry they will destroy us in a world with 8,000 nuclear weapons in safe human hands that are not problematic. Genghis Khan killed about a third of his known world's population. Why do we hate machines so much? Do we fear their rationality shames us? We are all now chronically ignorant compared with extra-somatic databases. Maybe we fear control by machines operating in the interests of a small group or police state - yet this 'machine' is already in place as a socio-technical human endeavor as the allocation class in real power we can't vote out. We could change a lot if we weren't so naff about this. Anyone here even think about it? In terms of data, what we chatter about, changes as data if we are not actually interested in large-scale human change. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
