“We are probably among the last generations of h****sapiens. Within a century or two, Earth will be dominated by entities that are more different from us, than we are different from Neanderthals or from chimpanzees. Because in the coming generations, we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds. These will be the main products of the 21st century economy.” - Yuval Noah Harari

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari

Jan 25, 2018

speaking at the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Yuval Noah Hararri's words are alarmingly prophetic

in this video, this guy explicitly uses terms and distinctions such as aristocrats vs commoners, capitalists vs proletarians, which umbrella do you think you fall under?

Harari writes about the "cognitive revolution" occurring roughly 70,000 years ago when H****sapiens supplanted the rival Neanderthals and other species of the genus Homo, developed language skills and structured societies, and ascended as apex predators, aided by the agricultural revolution and accelerated by the scientific revolution, which have allowed humans to approach near mastery over their environment. His books also examine the possible consequences of a futuristic biotechnological world in which intelligent biological organisms are surpassed by their own creations; he has said, "Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so"

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"Stephen Hawking warned that superintelligent artificial intelligence could be pivotal in steering humanity's fate, stating that "the potential benefits are huge... Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. It might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks."360

Stephen Hawking was disappointed by Brexit and warned against envy and isolationism.379

Hawking was greatly concerned over health care, and maintained that without the UK National Health Service, he could not have survived into his 70s.380 Hawking especially feared privatisation. He stated, "The more profit is extracted from the system, the more private monopolies grow and the more expensive healthcare becomes. The NHS must be preserved from commercial interests and protected from those who want to privatise it.

However, he argued that we should be more frightened of capitalism exacerbating economic inequality than robots."

Hawking was concerned about the future emergence of a race of "superhumans" that would be able to design their own evolution344"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/15/stephen-hawking-feared-race-of-superhumans-able-to-manipulate-their-own-dna/?variant=d846d44221ecba95

cnet.com/culture/stephen-hawking-says-we-should-be-more-frightened-of-capitalism-than-robots

the true benefits of artificial intelligence will, most likely,
not be distributed equally
and perhaps Hawking was alluding to this grim reality 🤔

for example: we are living at the height of a biblically severe economic inequality

"Economic inequality in the U.S. is large, growing and highly unpopular.1"

"Federal and state tax codes include little in the way of direct taxes on the wealth holdings of extremely affluent families and instead often favor sources of income that are derived from wealth."

itep.org/the-geographic-distribution-of-extreme-wealth-in-the-u-s/#_edn5

this tells us that our society is inherently anti-distributive in structure.

if anything, the monopolization of a true artificial intelligence (by whichever regime or private interest group) would probably result in the eventual demise of a significant portion of the global population

"Hawking expressed concern that life on Earth is at risk from a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, global warming, or other dangers humans have not yet thought of.302"

St. Augustine comments that the farmer was
"planning to fill his soul with excessive and unnecessary feasting and was proudly disregarding all those empty bellies of the poor.

He did not realize that the bellies of the poor were much safer storerooms than his barns."3

technology continues to develop at an alarming rate without many noticing

already artificial intelligence, in a relatively primitive form, is already causing havoc in favor of those who already have the most power:

"For tenants, the system upends the practice of negotiating with apartment building staff. RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money.

One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing.

Apartment managers can reject the software’s suggestions, but as many as 90% are adopted, according to former RealPage employees."

propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent

interesting how the landlords interviewed in this article characterized empathy as an obstacle? 🤔

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has opened an investigation into whether rent-setting software made by a Texas-based real estate tech company is facilitating collusion among landlords

we are slowly but surely transitioning into a Government by algorithm

propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-doj-investigation-antitrust

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink

hypothetically, if a neuralink device (or something similar) is successful in cultivating a super intelligent human-machine synthesis,

it is very likely that access to this type of machinery will be reserved for a select few

Research on brain-computer interfaces began in the 1970s by Jacques Vidal at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA.34

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface

can you imagine what they haven't shown us?

technology continues accelerating

"Recently, studies in human-computer interaction via the application of machine learning to statistical temporal features extracted from the frontal lobe (EEG brainwave) data has had high levels of success in autonomous recognition of fall detection as a medical alarm,6 mental state (Relaxed, Neutral, Concentrating),7 mental emotional state (Negative, Neutral, Positive),8 and thalamocortical dysrhythmia.9"

brain-computer interfaces, with the aid of machine learning, have already successfully achieved suprasensory capabilities that offer unparalleled and unprecedented advantages over other humans

"Hawking warned that aliens might pillage Earth for resources. In 2010 he said, "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."

we'll be the last homo-sapiens for a different reason imo

well yeah, the constant romanticization and fantasizing of THE SCIENCE ™️ and technology spurs on development of things like A.I, brain chips etc. with disregard for any of the consequences and/or moral implications (and if they are weighed at all, it’s usually an after-thought—this is also symptomatic of a hyper-individualist staunchly materialist society) transhumanism is sort of the logical conclusion to an extent

i don’t think A.I would necessarily get to a point where it crushes us out, but i wouldn’t be surprised if these technologies were leveraged to divide and discriminate amongst ourselves even more than we do now

just wrote a whole Plants Doompost™ bout how f***ed are but f*** it, yall already know

hug ya family n friends

Elon making a monkey play pong was all I needed to see to realize unfathomable evils were quickly approaching.

Those in control favor achievement and superficial ideas of 'success' over human survival and wellbeing.

How quick we develop philosophies outside of economic imperatives will greatly determine the direction of these technologies.

The current dogma that ai are human adjacent tools leads to destruction. A new dogma accepting the existence of an entirely new intelligence within our sphere is key. But folks can’t even accept humans of a different color so fat chance I guess.

"Humanity, he wrote, was entering “a new phase of what might be called self-designed evolution, in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA. We have now mapped DNA, which means we have read ‘the book of life,’ so we can start writing in corrections.”

“Once such superhumans appear, there are going to be significant political problems with the unimproved humans, who won’t be able to compete,” Hawking reasoned. “Presumably, they will die out, or become unimportant.”

in the excerpted material, Hawking did not elaborate on the disparities between “superhumans” and the “unimproved,” but an article accompanying the excerpt in the Sunday Times suggests that Hawking’s fear was specifically that “wealthy people will soon be able to choose to edit their own and their children’s DNA.” The article, by the newspaper’s science editor, draws a parallel to the 20th-century eugenics movement — premised similarly on the notion that human improvement could arise from genetic manipulation"

washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/15/stephen-hawking-feared-race-of-superhumans-able-to-manipulate-their-own-dna/?variant=d846d44221ecba95

Transhumanism is just the next step of evolution
We must embrace it instead of escape it.

I won

Transhumanism is a lie

It's over

what do you mean?

literally a soul trap in the physical world

I read his book on this and it's quite interesting. Seems like this whole s*** is inevitable.

the fish from gumball

“Some Neuralink rivals are having more success. Synchron, which was launched in 2016 and is developing a different implant with less ambitious goals for medical advances, received FDA approval to start human trials in 2021.

The company’s device has allowed paralyzed people to text and type by thinking alone”

globalnews.ca/news/9328626/elon-musk-neuralink-animal-deaths-federal-probe