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  • PhilosoDOOM@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m aware of his career and related, history.

    However it was Doctorow himself that mentioned his Burning Man attendance on a live tech podcast I was listening / watching 5 or so years ago.

    Here’s an excerpt from audience questions after a he gave on the AI Bubble (or Apocalypse as he puts it often), published on his blog Pluralist. Written by Doctorow

    “OK,” the young man said, “but what can we do about the crash?” He was clearly very worried.

    “I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that. I think it’s already locked in. I mean, maybe if we had a different government, they’d fund a jobs guarantee to pull us out of it, but I don’t think Trump’ll do that, so –”

    “But what can we do?”

    We went through a few rounds of this, with this poor kid just repeating the same question in different tones of voice, like an acting coach demonstrating the five stages of grieving using nothing but inflection. It was an uncomfortable moment, and there was some decidedly nervous chuckling around the room as we pondered the coming AI (economic) apocalypse, and the fate of this kid graduating with mid-six-figure debts into an economy of ashes and rubble.

  • PhilosoDOOM@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Here’s an exerpt from one of his public talks about the AI bubble. From his Pluralist blog.

    “OK,” the young man said, “but what can we do about the crash?” He was clearly very worried.

    “I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that. I think it’s already locked in. I mean, maybe if we had a different government, they’d fund a jobs guarantee to pull us out of it, but I don’t think Trump’ll do that, so –”

    “But what can we do?”

    We went through a few rounds of this, with this poor kid just repeating the same question in different tones of voice, like an acting coach demonstrating the five stages of grieving using nothing but inflection. It was an uncomfortable moment, and there was some decidedly nervous chuckling around the room as we pondered the coming AI (economic) apocalypse, and the fate of this kid graduating with mid-six-figure debts into an economy of ashes and rubble.

  • PhilosoDOOM@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The Author’s Note section of State of Fear, Michael Crichton made numerous predictions that some of which have come true thus far.

    It was published in 2004

    One of which is that any climate change related legislation implemented by one party, will eventually overturned / reversed when the other party takes power.

    Nothing is more inherently political than our shared physical environment, and nothing is more ill served by allegiance to a single political party. Precisely because the environment is shared it cannot be managed by one faction according to its own economic or aesthetic preferences. Sooner or later, the opposing faction will take power, and previous policies will be reversed. Stable management of the environment requires recognition that all preferences have their place: snowmobilers and fly fishermen, dirt bikers and hikers, devel-opers and preservationists. These preferences are at odds, and their incompatibility cannot be avoided. But resolving incompatible goals is a true function of politics

    He also predicted that in around 2100, people will be far richer, use lots of energy than ever before, and the global population will be much smaller.

  • PhilosoDOOM@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Corey Doctorow is an industry plant, anyone who goes to Burning Man and writes books like he does, has some major skin in the Techno Feudalism game.

    Edit:I can only offer what is revealed to me. It’s too much for me to handle. Our reality is planned out. AI is here to enslave us. It’s not just some financial scheme. Doctorow is part of what they call a “hoodwink”. I personally never use AI product, never have, but I see what’s coming. I believe the solution is to stop using smart phones completely.

    This is a bit unrelated but this is the cover or DJ Shadow’s Action Adventure. It has a track called “Reflecting Pool”. It was released in 2003. If this isn’t sufficient proof I don’t know what to tell ya.