technology, bleak, potential existential dread
One of my more 'ambient' concerns about technology, as it stands today, is the degree to which it makes social development and evolution impossible.
Computer systems require for everything to be encoded in standardized formats, to function. Standardized formats require exhaustively defining the space of all relevant information and concepts that can exist.
Which means that we're rapidly locking ourselves into an ossified, immutable society where everything must forever work how it does today - organic development of novel and better things rapidly becomes impossible because its outcomes are not representable in the computer systems that now run our world.
Even leaving aside the question of "who defines the space of possible things that can exist", the mere fact that this must be exhaustively specified *at all* is, I think, a potentially existential risk for humans' ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
@serapath We don't have "capable AI" to begin with (and it's not clear that we ever will).
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technology, bleak, potential existential dread
@joepie91 i mean... i think AI is already useful occasionally.
yes it hallucinates and botches a lot of things too, but it often gets the 101 stuff right when ppl try to learn the basics in a new field.
i definitly try every few months and i can see how things get better.
not saying its perfect or super efficient, but yeah - the future will show
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
@serapath I repeat: we do not have 'capable AI'. We have a bunch of useful algorithms and a bunch of not-so-useful word soup and lie generators. That's it.
It is irresponsible to respond to concerns about the current state of technology with "well maybe things will get better in the future".
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
technology, bleak, potential existential dread
@joepie91 really?
i mean ... especially with capable AI, isnt it rather unnecessary to encode everything so strictly?