Comment by lo_zamoyski
16 hours ago
Borg logic consists of framing matters of choice as "inevitable". As long as those with power convince everyone that technological implementation is "inevitable", people will passively accept their self-serving and destructive technological mastery of the world.
The framing allows the rest of us to get ourselves off the hook. "We didn't have a choice! It was INEVITABLE!"
And so, we have chosen.
But history shows that it is inevitable. Can you give me an example of a single useful technology that humans ever stopped developing because of its negative externalities?
> "We didn't have a choice! It was INEVITABLE!"
There is no "we". You can call it the tragedy of the commons, or Moloch, or whatever you want, but I don't see how you can convince every single developer and financial sponsor on the planet to stop using and developing this (clearly very useful) tech. And as long as you can't, it's socially inevitable.
If you want a practice run, see if you can stop everyone in the world from smoking tobacco, which is so much more clearly detrimental. If you manage that, you might have a small chance at stopping implementation of AI.
this is a logical fallacy i think; nobody needs to stop tobacco full-stop, but we have been extremely successful at making it less and less incentivized/used over time, which is the goal...
[1] https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...