On 20/07/15 11:02, Jaromil wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, morlockel...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> The shift I mentioned is the shift from being managed/herded by a >> relatively large number of humans, to being managed/herded by a >> large number of machines controlled by a small number of humans, and >> the power pyramid becoming a very steep needle. > > I see. Very good point. > >> How do you classify builders of these power-multiplication machines? > > Trans-humanists?
That's a nice definition of transhumanism. The singularity they're looking for is less of an elevation of machine "intelligence" to the human level, and more of a simplification (i.e. reduction, delimitation) of human intelligence as a consequence of getting souped up in the machine in the process of "making it smarter" (i.e. dumbing ourselves down). Stuck in a memory theatre. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
