Epic Beard Man
Bearded Philosopher
There is no denying technology as it is an essential aspect of human life, and it is constantly improving itself with many human innovations which leads to societal advancements. As a consequence to shifts in technology, society changes, and along these changes comes to the changes in which we view our world. Intelligence augmentation and artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the philosophical approach to technology. because of our cognitive limitations, the creation of super-intelligence can enhance these limitations into a new sociological as well as psychological frontier.
Although technology proposes convenience through efficiency, opportunity, communication and medicine, it in opposition leaves us with laziness, a social divide, and becoming quickly becoming obsolete,. With the potential of artificial intelligence will we in essence open up our Pandora's box to our doom or our salvation?
Scholar G. Prisco recently stated:
"Getting things to almost work is much, much easier than getting things to work. Engineers know that even if you do 90 percent of the work in 10 percent of the time, then you will have to spend the remaining 90 percent of the time to do the missing 10 percent of the work. Same, of course, for money.
Which means that 90 percent wasn’t really 90 percent, because it left out all the boring details that take 90 percent of the money and the time — boring details like sustainability, operational robustness, error recovery, fail-safe operations and all that, without forgetting social acceptance, financial and political aspects.
That real AI seems always 20 years away indicates that perhaps we just don’t know enough to estimate the development timeline for something that is actually 200 years away, or more. A good analogy is Leonardo’s flying machines. Leonardo correctly guessed that machines could fly, but the actual development of flying machines took centuries and required different technologies.
I don’t buy the idea of a “post-scarcity” utopia (actually, I don’t buy any utopia). It’s worth emphasizing that, from the perspective of our grandfathers and people in poor regions, today’s developed world is a post-scarcity utopia because nobody is starving to death…”
“Without forgetting social acceptance” is the key. We could transform the entire world rather quickly, but the dislocation would be such that, perhaps, all the positive (that we now define as positive) would be negated."
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Although technology proposes convenience through efficiency, opportunity, communication and medicine, it in opposition leaves us with laziness, a social divide, and becoming quickly becoming obsolete,. With the potential of artificial intelligence will we in essence open up our Pandora's box to our doom or our salvation?
Scholar G. Prisco recently stated:
"Getting things to almost work is much, much easier than getting things to work. Engineers know that even if you do 90 percent of the work in 10 percent of the time, then you will have to spend the remaining 90 percent of the time to do the missing 10 percent of the work. Same, of course, for money.
Which means that 90 percent wasn’t really 90 percent, because it left out all the boring details that take 90 percent of the money and the time — boring details like sustainability, operational robustness, error recovery, fail-safe operations and all that, without forgetting social acceptance, financial and political aspects.
That real AI seems always 20 years away indicates that perhaps we just don’t know enough to estimate the development timeline for something that is actually 200 years away, or more. A good analogy is Leonardo’s flying machines. Leonardo correctly guessed that machines could fly, but the actual development of flying machines took centuries and required different technologies.
I don’t buy the idea of a “post-scarcity” utopia (actually, I don’t buy any utopia). It’s worth emphasizing that, from the perspective of our grandfathers and people in poor regions, today’s developed world is a post-scarcity utopia because nobody is starving to death…”
“Without forgetting social acceptance” is the key. We could transform the entire world rather quickly, but the dislocation would be such that, perhaps, all the positive (that we now define as positive) would be negated."
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