@thecarpathian with all the problems we are facing, I'd love AI to solve ANY issues. We don't have the luxury of worrying about AI to become too smart. Just give me cold fusion already!
I miss scarcity
This is not a complaint. Or, if it is a complaint, it's half-aimed at me. Mostly this is a reflection.
In the old days, I got to know music really well -- in great detail, sonically, musically, reading all the credits, the liner notes, etc. A friend would have an album I didn't, so I'd go to his house to listen. We'd talk about the music. We'd talk about how album sides hung together or didn't. We were thrilled by double albums.
Now, a torrent of information is everywhere. I listen alone, often to a single song, often not listening to anything over and over again.
You will tell me, "That's your choice." I'd half agree. It's like agreeing that "It's my choice not to live off the electrical grid."
As I read and teach about AI, I am learning that our tools often prioritize speed and information glut. It seems, initially, like a cornucopia but it becomes a wash of "content." I must admit, I'm losing my talent for managing all this content, and I'm losing my love for it. And it's making me into a different person, somewhat, and I am not so sure I want to be that person. End of reflection.
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I highly recommend Sam Harris’s podcasts. He has a PhD in Nuroscience and as in depth interviews with the top experts in the field… the guys doing this. Interviews are two hours long each and there are probably a dozen. He carefully and deeply examines different educated points of view. For instance: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/379-regulating-artificial-intelligence https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/332-can-we-contain-artificial-intelligence https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/324-debating-the-future-of-ai https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/essentials/making-sense-of-artificial-intelligence |
@kennymacc 100% bro! The human element is being removed right before our very eyes. I yearn for the 70’s and 80’s and not because I was younger but because the world was a much simpler, slower place. And so much better, IMHO. I so miss going to malls especially during the Holidays. It was fun, festive, people were in great moods doing their shopping, spending time together-and this was the true point of it all. Everyone was engaged with each other chatting in lines, sitting in the food court talking to each other. That’s all gone now. When I do go to a mall it’s dull, dreary, everyone is completely oblivious and buried in their phones. Even in lines and sitting in the food court every single head is down with fingers moving 100 miles an hour…so sad… One of my co-workers (much younger at 27, I’m 56) asked if I wished I was younger because I throw my age out a lot😂. I said absolutely not, I wish I were older so I could retire now. I so do not want to be younger in today’s world. Now put me back in the 80’s and be young again, DEFINITELY! I feel blessed to have grown up when I did. Wouldn’t trade that or my memories for anything!
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