...I mean, how did the ancients figure it out? How did the stories evolve? Who were the ancients for the ancients to creatively conceive of? Are we being naive? Are we being punked? These are the profound existential questions we have to examine; inquiries we need to make of the us's .
Meanwhile, back at the Rancho Cookoo Loco the masterminds infiltrate the trusting and lusting humans. Damn them. They need to pay for what they done did...the bell done toll ya!
or power beyond what is reality is what is apparent...
I'm channeling miamizsun again...
this always happens when I prognosticate
so it is written, so it must be done...
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before." - Dr. Benton Quest
Its all been done before after all. We write the future and then edit the planned obsolescence to suit the storytellers. Human beings are nothing if not predictable aye?
...I mean, how did the ancients figure it out? How did the stories evolve? Who were the ancients for the ancients to creatively conceive of? Are we being naive? Are we being punked? These are the profound existential questions we have to examine; inquiries we need to make of the us's .
Meanwhile, back at the Rancho Cookoo Loco the masterminds infiltrate the trusting and lusting humans. Damn them. They need to pay for what they done did...the bell done toll ya!
or power beyond what is reality is what is apparent...
Its all been done before after all. We write the future and then edit the planned obsolescence to suit the storytellers. Human beings are nothing if not predictable aye?
My first reaction to this was to roll my eyes at how much he gets wrong in this lecture. He doesn't understand the technology he's talking aboutâand really, why should he? He's no expert, he's a showman. A huckster, like so many conspiracy theorists who've been trotted out to explain the dark secrets hidden among us, visible only to those capable of googling and editing video clips together.
But he goes beyond not understanding specific technologies; he fails to understand technology itself. He is personifying machines, assigning them human emotions, failings, vulnerabilities, and motives. He's afraid that machines will try to kill us all.
Which they'll do...why, exactly? Machines aren't subject to rewards and incentives like humans. They don't care. Humans exist, don't exist...they exist or notâall the same to them. They don't have pride or jealousy or hate. They don't feel compelled to make the world safe for their children and they don't have children. An autonomous machineâthat thing that scares him mostâmeans they aren't directed by any overarching command structure.
His superstition is not new. If even 1% of the doomsday predictions made by technological illiterates like him during my lifetime had come true I'd have been strangled by a corded phone, run over by a car on cruise control, crashed by an autopilot, mutated into a hideous insect by ( ( ( r a d i a t i o n ) ) ) from a microwave oven many times over by now. I can take comfort in the fact that he's wrong, but I can be alarmed that people like you find him credible.
That's the real threat: that our unwillingness to expend the effort required to understand what we're capable of will make us retreat to a state we think we do understandâstarving around a flickering campfire, fearful of the moving shadows outside.
Its all been done before after all. We write the future and then edit the planned obsolescence to suit the storytellers. Human beings are nothing if not predictable aye?
My first reaction to this was to roll my eyes at how much he gets wrong in this lecture. He doesn't understand the technology he's talking about—and really, why should he? He's no expert, he's a showman. A huckster, like so many conspiracy theorists who've been trotted out to explain the dark secrets hidden among us, visible only to those capable of googling and editing video clips together.
But he goes beyond not understanding specific technologies; he fails to understand technology itself. He is personifying machines, assigning them human emotions, failings, vulnerabilities, and motives. He's afraid that machines will try to kill us all.
Which they'll do...why, exactly? Machines aren't subject to rewards and incentives like humans. They don't care. Humans exist, don't exist...they exist or not—all the same to them. They don't have pride or jealousy or hate. They don't feel compelled to make the world safe for their children and they don't have children. An autonomous machine—that thing that scares him most—means they aren't directed by any overarching command structure.
His superstition is not new. If even 1% of the doomsday predictions made by technological illiterates like him during my lifetime had come true I'd have been strangled by a corded phone, run over by a car on cruise control, crashed by an autopilot, mutated into a hideous insect by ( ( ( r a d i a t i o n ) ) ) from a microwave oven many times over by now. I can take comfort in the fact that he's wrong, but I can be alarmed that people like you find him credible.
That's the real threat: that our unwillingness to expend the effort required to understand what we're capable of will make us retreat to a state we think we do understand—starving around a flickering campfire, fearful of the moving shadows outside.
That's good.When we see people sliding of the edge,we try to pull them back.Some can't be saved and just change screen names.And spew psycho stuff about politicians who haven't even ever been politicians.Just spewing psycho stuff.Hahahahahahaha.
