Embed this noticesimsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 13:30:26 JST
simsa03The more times goes by the more "Until the End of the World", the motion picture by Wim Wenders from 1991, turns out to be an accurate prediction about the "Anthropocene": the merger of world and man-made experience until there is no place left for experiences not brought about by man himself. And when all the world there is is made up by man, it grows stale and bland, and loses all appeal for engagement, attention, and care.
With the usual outcry that #AI replaces "creative humans".
But what if AI would replace non-creative humans? Or when AI would relieve humans, whether creative or not, from dull labour? The angst about #AI is the panic of losing privilege, not exceptionality.
Embed this noticesimsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 08:02:36 JST
simsa03I'm baffled about #AI doomerism. AI will make us into slaves, will decide our future...? To me this sounds like a distraction from the fact that in capitalism I am already a slave, with no options, no freedom, where bureaucratically ordered and implemented practical constraints serve the upholding of judicial peace and guarantee of ownership. Perhaps it's only affluent people who now start to tremble about the prospects of #AI, people who in capitalism always enjoyed the illusion of agency, an illusion covered by a magically influx of prosperity and luxury. I never joined these comforts (and I wonder if I ever had the chance or opportunity to do so) and so I don't believe in agency and some divine right of ownership and the exercise of practical constraints onto others. But that's just me, and I am not fearing AI. Because for 500 years we already lived in a world that is AI, only embodied in different forms than semiconductors and globalised data transfer.
Congratulations! Well deserved. And thank you for all the good work you put into gnusocial.jp.
Embed this noticesimsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 13:39:05 JST
simsa03As I scroll through the "Explore" TL of mastodon.social I cannot but ask: What dumb shit is this fedi-site? Cat pics, Israel hatred (aka "Israel citicism"), more cat pics, Trump and US election... its like brainless X/Twitter, and as boring as Bluesky. "Social media" don't die because of being outrage machines (with or without behaviour triggering algorithms) but because of the utter boredom they create. Everything people ever had to say they already posted years ago when they first started using "social media". Now, dumb as fuck, people post like that.