This is terrific. I’ve been making this argument to people for years. Hardly anybody listens to basic logic anymore. Anyway - I’ve now read a few of your posts and your work is spot on and I’m looking forward to reading more. Thank you.
“It is this belief in a new digital revolution which gave rise to the much-derided article by Danish politician, Ida Auken – originally titled “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy, and life has never been better.” More popularly known as “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” It is a world of digital currencies and digital IDs, vaccine passports and 15-minute cities, electrification and driverless cars. All of it based around the “energy too cheap to meter” from wind turbines and solar panels, and all of it operated by autonomous artificial intelligence within the “singularity” of the “internet of things.”
It is a mirage, of course… one only visible to so-called “virtuals” – people whose lives and careers are now so detached from the material world that, were there not so many of them, could otherwise be diagnosed as certifiably insane. The real world, meanwhile, looks more akin to the second global collapse – the first being the collapse of the integrated economies of the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean empires sometime around 1186 BCE. The majority of ordinary people have seen their living standards decline over the past two decades – a process compounded and accelerated by two years of lockdowns followed by a year of self-destructive sanctions on key resources.”?
This is terrific. I’ve been making this argument to people for years. Hardly anybody listens to basic logic anymore. Anyway - I’ve now read a few of your posts and your work is spot on and I’m looking forward to reading more. Thank you.
Video explaining some newer details: A.I is B.S. - Adam Conover -> https://youtu.be/ro130m-f_yk
“It is this belief in a new digital revolution which gave rise to the much-derided article by Danish politician, Ida Auken – originally titled “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy, and life has never been better.” More popularly known as “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” It is a world of digital currencies and digital IDs, vaccine passports and 15-minute cities, electrification and driverless cars. All of it based around the “energy too cheap to meter” from wind turbines and solar panels, and all of it operated by autonomous artificial intelligence within the “singularity” of the “internet of things.”
It is a mirage, of course… one only visible to so-called “virtuals” – people whose lives and careers are now so detached from the material world that, were there not so many of them, could otherwise be diagnosed as certifiably insane. The real world, meanwhile, looks more akin to the second global collapse – the first being the collapse of the integrated economies of the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean empires sometime around 1186 BCE. The majority of ordinary people have seen their living standards decline over the past two decades – a process compounded and accelerated by two years of lockdowns followed by a year of self-destructive sanctions on key resources.”?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/03/01/paradise-postponed
Thank you for this very informative article. Assuming you wouldn't mind, I've patiently translated it to French and published it on my blog: http://skidmark.blog/2022/11/11/lintelligence-artificielle-est-elle-vraiment-intelligente-par-the-science-analyst/
Thank you! You have put in words something which was very hard for me to formulate.
Interesting and useful. Thanks for making this available to everyone.