Blinded by the light - Manfred Mann/Art by Robert E.
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Smoke and mirrors, along the lines of Col. Jessup's immortal line, You can't handle the truth! applies. This is where we are at regarding war, AI and climate change as reality doesn't care. As per Camus, the benign indifference of the world shows this take to be true.
This civilization is at a crossroad, the great filter is showing it's head, driven by incompetency and greed with man having access to tech most powerful and disquieting. As stated before in BRT, the betting pool on civilizations reaching this level of technology and surviving is razor thin as AI doesn't have to be sentient in order to destroy. All AI has to do is to follow patterns of behaviors of the people who run the tech as AI, at this point in time, is a masterful pattern recognition machine of the highest order.
Will we survive? ... The choice is up to us.
But a flicker
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