I remember reading it many years ago. He made some good points - which is disconcerting.

Has anyone else read it? What did you think?

  • Ab_intra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I remember watching the Netflix series about him. I was shocked because I actually agreed with a lot of what he had to say about the society we’re living in right now. We’re at the brink of AI being a force that is no longer controllable. We’re seeing deepfakes and other shit that will ruin peoples life. And we’re moving towards a society where everything can be replaced with code.

    I myself have grown up to these changes and it’s insane how much our world has changed over the last 30 years. It’s shocking.

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      1 year ago

      I think the next hundred years will bring more changes to humanity than the last 10,000 years have. We have devised methods to gaslight ourselves; we’re moving into a world where the concept of truth is malleable and unknowable. The machines will get smarter, the rich will get richer. I’ll be 66 years old in about a month. I have many more yesterdays than tomorrows. I’m not looking forward to leaving this world, but I’m not particularly interested in being a participant in what comes next.