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comment by iammyownrushmore
iammyownrushmore  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Singularity or Bust

The only thing I ever come away with from discussions about "the coming Singularity" is feeling of unease when utopian language is used by the people engineering the technology who are in no way shape or form sociologists.

Of course, no one can accurately predict the effects of disruptive technology, but there needs to be some serious thinking about the work-a-day ramifications of a technology that will embedded into us and augment us in such an internalized fashion. This isn't the steam engine or airplanes or antibiotics or the telephone, this is actually scarier (I am not afraid to use that word) than that and with much deeper ramifications.

The whole field of AI has a pop culture interaction that is some low-level philosophical garbage, and high-minded engineering that is obsessed with the end product as, at best, a curiosity.