There is another technology that produced a similarly startling mystery -- the ouja board, introduced in 1890. That one, we figured out. The messages came from the depths of the human minds attached to the technology. The answers to the three numbered questions presented in the substack article are not known to me, but, of course, the nature of the presentation inclines me to think that the answers are likely to explain more about the operation of human minds when they attempt to collaborate in teams connected by unfathomed autonomous technology than they explain about the technology itself.
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The Internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Root cause analysis gets me this far: The Internet is a consequence of the human race. The human race loves consequences. We cannot resist the allure of the search for advantageous consequences, even though we have declining brain size and increasing need for wisdom. It looks to me as if the fight for the wheel will include several factions of humans, several species of AI, and a jumble of alliances, hybrids, coalitions, strategies, conspiracies, and standoffs amongst them. The future is going to be just like a trip to the movies today -- nothing but sequels.
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There is another technology that produced a similarly startling mystery -- the ouja board, introduced in 1890. That one, we figured out. The messages came from the depths of the human minds attached to the technology. The answers to the three numbered questions presented in the substack article are not known to me, but, of course, the nature of the presentation inclines me to think that the answers are likely to explain more about the operation of human minds when they attempt to collaborate in teams connected by unfathomed autonomous technology than they explain about the technology itself.
First sentence says:
Root cause analysis gets me this far: The Internet is a consequence of the human race. The human race loves consequences. We cannot resist the allure of the search for advantageous consequences, even though we have declining brain size and increasing need for wisdom. It looks to me as if the fight for the wheel will include several factions of humans, several species of AI, and a jumble of alliances, hybrids, coalitions, strategies, conspiracies, and standoffs amongst them. The future is going to be just like a trip to the movies today -- nothing but sequels.