https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-06/donald-trump-is-the-singularity
Somewhat disingenuous on my part.
The article in itself is interesting, an op-ed piece for Bloomberg suggesting Trump is like a runaway AI. I was originally trying to come to terms with how Trump would affect the Technological Singularity. Generally, the idea is the overall driving force of accelerated change is immune to specific disruptions like this, but the thought of this administration was too disastrous and unbearable to not think it would cause a blip in the overarching scheme of things. While horrible at least we have seen good people still exist and the mechanism of government in the US still has some feeble but real control to the runaway Trump effect.
Too be sure, a Singularity is not immune to disastrous extinction events and the like. Some would say humans still have a measure of control, and that's possible, but for the most part, the path is almost irrevocable at this point..the aggregate weight of our activity and accomplishments are near critical mass.
Trump is an anomaly, though indicative of a natural instinct of humans--even in the developed western world--towards a knee-jerk reaction to high-speed change that interestingly is happening right now in multiple countries. Trump happening tells us we are moving too fast..people want to catch their breath and look backward. It's a biological one too, of our reptilian human brain unadapted as yet to the scale and qualities of the changes both technological and social. Let's simplify we say, almost subconsciously.
What's interesting is that this potential roll-back has spurred the preservation of data, fomented rebellion in tech circles in social media and with information exchange. They are using the very tools of accelerated change to preserve and accelerate it.
As I've pointed out before...politicians, ultimately only have a minor place at this point in the scheme of things. Sure there is bureaucracy everywhere in science and tech, and laws to accompany them but there is a fundamental misunderstanding of how things work and our direction. Generally, policy and laws are too slow to react to be damaging to accelerated growth. Trump's team is too dumb to know coal jobs are not the future or notice how since my last post here on this subject, the massive displacement coming from automation is more tangible and understood.
So is Trump a big runaway AI meme generator? Is this already dystopia? Well, Kurzweil recently updated his prediction for human level AI from 2045 to 2029. I have to say, I tend to disagree there, barring something in his Google research we don't know about. No, we're not near developmentally. With a little thought, a little less knee-jerking, Trump is an afterthought. A footnote. He's too impotent, too unaware, and I still don't think we are headed for a dystopia.
RAMA
Somewhat disingenuous on my part.
The article in itself is interesting, an op-ed piece for Bloomberg suggesting Trump is like a runaway AI. I was originally trying to come to terms with how Trump would affect the Technological Singularity. Generally, the idea is the overall driving force of accelerated change is immune to specific disruptions like this, but the thought of this administration was too disastrous and unbearable to not think it would cause a blip in the overarching scheme of things. While horrible at least we have seen good people still exist and the mechanism of government in the US still has some feeble but real control to the runaway Trump effect.
Too be sure, a Singularity is not immune to disastrous extinction events and the like. Some would say humans still have a measure of control, and that's possible, but for the most part, the path is almost irrevocable at this point..the aggregate weight of our activity and accomplishments are near critical mass.
Trump is an anomaly, though indicative of a natural instinct of humans--even in the developed western world--towards a knee-jerk reaction to high-speed change that interestingly is happening right now in multiple countries. Trump happening tells us we are moving too fast..people want to catch their breath and look backward. It's a biological one too, of our reptilian human brain unadapted as yet to the scale and qualities of the changes both technological and social. Let's simplify we say, almost subconsciously.
What's interesting is that this potential roll-back has spurred the preservation of data, fomented rebellion in tech circles in social media and with information exchange. They are using the very tools of accelerated change to preserve and accelerate it.
As I've pointed out before...politicians, ultimately only have a minor place at this point in the scheme of things. Sure there is bureaucracy everywhere in science and tech, and laws to accompany them but there is a fundamental misunderstanding of how things work and our direction. Generally, policy and laws are too slow to react to be damaging to accelerated growth. Trump's team is too dumb to know coal jobs are not the future or notice how since my last post here on this subject, the massive displacement coming from automation is more tangible and understood.
So is Trump a big runaway AI meme generator? Is this already dystopia? Well, Kurzweil recently updated his prediction for human level AI from 2045 to 2029. I have to say, I tend to disagree there, barring something in his Google research we don't know about. No, we're not near developmentally. With a little thought, a little less knee-jerking, Trump is an afterthought. A footnote. He's too impotent, too unaware, and I still don't think we are headed for a dystopia.
RAMA
