Hmm…so much to talk about, so much to stress about but I want to keep some semblance of coherency with this post…
So lets just go back to one of my original declarations that my life is controlled by robots, some of it by choice some of it not so much.
Earlier this week according to an article in my only semi trusted printed media outlet, BBC, there was this article.
Let me know when you get done reading it…
Done yet?
No seriously, read the fucking article you lazy fuck, because I’m not going to give you the cliff note of a cliff note.
Did you really read it?
Ok, fine forget you them, on with the conversations.
So it’s quite interesting that they have discovered some semblance of evidence for possible organic ‘lifeforms’ on Titan that could be contributing to it’s varied and stable atmosphere. I would love to see what would happen with some implemented terraforming on the moon. Commercial space exploration can quickly get us to a point of this being a viable option…but at the cost of…
OK…if you have read the article I linked to you would be wondering what the fuck I was referencing too…it was a test to see if you actually read the article or not.
Fucking read it!!!!!
Ok, on with the real thing, thanks for spending the same amount of time it would have taken you to originally read the article instead of going through my bait and switch thinking I would do it for you.
The biggest implication I am concerned about is using this advanced artificial processing power to disseminate information for people. Look, I understand when you type in ‘slavery’ in Google it takes a long time to get to an actual article about human slavery in modern and historical applications, as opposed to a bunch of malware Russian sites about bondage. That doesn’t mean we should rely on outside sources to further filter that information for us than it already is. I think the real problem with that concern is proper search etiquette. Just type in ‘slavery in America’ or ‘work conditions in modern China’…just be more specific.
Where my concern comes in is that people are contemplating the idea of using artificial intelligence to figure out what information to disseminate…this is about as promising in accuracy and completeness as asking the government to do the same thing.
The implications I see with this is a further buffering of information to the masses, a way to counteract an educated populace. We are already to the point where the majority of the population in America tunes in to narrow band frequencies to generate their opinions. They do so and are content to take the information at face value because they have decided to arrange their value system around it. This leads to the scenario of women voting for candidates who have histories of incredibly destructive policies towards women.
People choose not to question things that they want to hear, so they never look into the ‘facts’ being presented to them. When they hear thing’s that conflict with their ideals they turn to their trusted information sources to correct the facts for them, instead of researching it themselves. It’s too hard and there isn’t enough time for someone to look up the facts on a simple subject, especially if they consider making a balanced meal too time consuming for them to waste their time on. We have an increasingly growing population of citizens who will abandon everything else for the sake of perceived convenience.
To see what will happen when computers determine how much information we need in relation to what we are looking for view this.
I rest my case.
