I have just watched the above documentary, I have to say it has left me feeling extremely 'schizophrenic'. I find it hard to be optimistic about the new technologies that are appearing and are expected. Its not the technologies that really bother me, its the damn monkeys behind the machines.
Its not hard to see that new technologies are first and foremost used to kill other people. The explosion in technologies that accompanied the I and II world wars was as a simple consequence of people wanting to be able to enforce there will on others by the use of exploding munitions and one on one combat to make the other bend to there will. People accuse me of taking Terminator or even the Unabomber to seriously. But what if..... Why on earth would any sentient computer want to keep us around. We need to remember that these 'thinking AI machines' probably wont exist on an empathic or emotional system, they'll use cold logic and in the light of cold logic we are just a virus destroying a planet, a planet we need to survive. Not a hard or difficult decision to get rid of a virus, but that is exactly how we will be seen by anything with a logic based brain. Even logic based humans end up pretty nihilistic.
I don't want to stop progress or even stop technologies from being invented. A moratorium on what we're actually trying to do. Why is it such a crime to stop and look around.
Friday, 19 June 2009
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Who Is the Attic Tramp
Q.The attic tramp is a real tramp.
A. No, I just dress like one and hope to travel as much as one
Q. What's with the Attic thing
A. I live in an attic. and spending quite a lot of time thinking and pondering making folk think I live in my head too much or in 'my attic' I thought it was a groovy coincidence.
Q. What do you do.
A. Currently unemployed. I think a lot, I read a lot and i hope to write a lot. I think We are heading down a strange and new path as a species and i want to write and talk about the implications of this.
Q. Are you one of those Reptile seeing conspiracy fruits.
A No but there are a lot of conspiracies not involving Reptiles, or Royal Bloodlines
Q. What do you do with your free time.
A Talk to Friends, smoke ciggies and generally be lazy.
Q. YOU HAVE FRIENDS
A. Yes i even have a girlfriend
A. No, I just dress like one and hope to travel as much as one
Q. What's with the Attic thing
A. I live in an attic. and spending quite a lot of time thinking and pondering making folk think I live in my head too much or in 'my attic' I thought it was a groovy coincidence.
Q. What do you do.
A. Currently unemployed. I think a lot, I read a lot and i hope to write a lot. I think We are heading down a strange and new path as a species and i want to write and talk about the implications of this.
Q. Are you one of those Reptile seeing conspiracy fruits.
A No but there are a lot of conspiracies not involving Reptiles, or Royal Bloodlines
Q. What do you do with your free time.
A Talk to Friends, smoke ciggies and generally be lazy.
Q. YOU HAVE FRIENDS
A. Yes i even have a girlfriend
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