“Fiction is the lie, through which we tell the truth.” – Albert Camus
A cautionary parable of the twin existential perils of the unfettered, unregulated worship of technology, that has driven the threat of the 6th Mass Extinction from Climate Change, and now, the exponentially increasing reliance on dehumanizing, Artificial Intelligence.
It’s a long day’s journey in to light…so let’s get on with it…
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Something has gone horribly wrong. Our good nature has been thwarted by several forces, but I think the most powerful of them is the dominant political narrative of our times of self-interest and yes, greed, fueled by blind, unfettered, unregulated reliance, and worship, … indeed addiction, to technology, causing a failure to sufficiently respond to the twin existential perils of the unfettered, unregulated technology, that has driven the threat of the 6th Mass Extinction from Climate Change, and the exponentially increasing reliance on dehumanizing, Artificial Intelligence.
And now, … the enhanced existential threat posed from the fusion of a zeitgeist of self-annihilating Artificial intelligence with self-fulfilling, … End-times, Apocalyptic “White-nationalist-Christo-fascism”, overlaid on the undeniable effects of catastrophic climate change, only serves to enhance the potential for the 6th Mass Extinction, in orders of magnitude.
Unless, …
It is often said that technology is a “sword that cuts both ways. ” An idiom meaning a course of action, argument, or tool that possesses equally powerful positive … and negative consequences, or can harm the user as much as the intended target.
According to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
And so it is with technology … It “ghivith…and it taketh away” …in equal measure.
As a consequence of the inherent asymmetrical time-frame of perceived benefit ratio of technology, the initial, often highly seductive benefits, can obscure the long term detriment.
Because of the innate moral hazard of man’s insatiable greed and hubris, Artificial Intelligence is the epitome of an exponentially powerful technological sword that cuts both ways, with possibly, the potential, to debase and destroy civilization as we know it … … “the Final Cut!”
