RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11656805…
"The idea that you can simply feed every fact about a society into a chatbot and order it to "solve" the nation reveals a profound ignorance about the nature of political contests." - @pluralistic
- and the same holds true for the individual human being, of course; that's why societies are like that.
The prevailing ideas about AI / AGI are based on this fundamental misapprehension, that a sapient subject such as a human being can be solved in the manner of an equation.
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image With great power comes great solipsism: the more power you wield over other people, the less real they become to you. To rule is to see people as aggregates, statistical artifacts, as a means to an end.Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)
