On: Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

[Razengan]

So we stop AI, uninvent it,

what then?

We go back to how it was before AI

And everyone will have a better life?

Let's hear your plan

[sriram_malhar → Razengan]

It isn't just AI. I would like a world without the poison of social media, without guns & bombs, without dangerous chemicals. Yes, in many many ways we'd be better off. We are accelerating the destruction of our planet.

I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear.

[Razengan → sriram_malhar]

> a world without the poison of social media

No radio, no newspapers, no town criers, no gossip at the alewife's house?

> I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear.

So your best move is to go around spreading that fear without offering ways to fix shit or inspiring anyone else to do so?

[sriram_malhar → Razengan]

C'mon, you know better than to invoke a slippery slope.

My best move is to influence the people I care about to reduce dependence on these things and seek happiness in non-tech things (where tech is defined as those controlled by corporations), from community, live life from first principles. You are forcing me to answer a strange binary ... propose a fix for the world at large, or let me continue with all this shit. The world isn't as black and white.

Anyway, I'm done with this thread.

[lowbloodsugar → sriram_malhar]

I would like to recommend, to both of you, Sarah Wilson’s I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World. I am heartened that both of you are still trying to find solutions. -https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241715900