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   Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 12:52:09 JST Jack Rusher

   “The [automatic machine/artificial intelligence] is not frightening because of any danger that it may achieve autonomous control over humanity... Its real danger is the quite different one that such machines, though helpless by themselves, may be used by a human being or a block of human beings to increase their control over the rest of the human race.”
   — #NorbertWiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 22:08:36 JST simsa03

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     A true 1950s banality, charcaterizing the problem(s) as one of omnipotent machines vs. omnipotent humans. That machines, like all tools and tech #infrastructure, create preferences, necessities, and practical constraints that contribute to and determine the options human beings have in their decisions, in fact, the human-machine symbiosis that is in existence since the Palaeolithic, is conveniently ignored in favour of a conception of man of free agency. That is rubbish. Not only with regard to man-in-environment constraints, but also with regard to an underlying scientism that relies heavily in its naïvety on a primitive 19th and 20th century Empricism.