d8b5f9 No.2639
Is there any good literature/philosophy out there on the colossal uses and abuses of future technology (invisibility, mind control, nuclear weapons, AI) and how to prevent it from/reasonably assure against its happening?
Or is everything gonna go to shite?
____________________________
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.2647
A lot of classic sci-fi adresses some of those issues, but of course that's just fiction, not a scientific analysis of any sort. Asimov did create the so-called laws of robotics, but those don't actually work correctly, even within his stories. Sci-fi is more about problems and failed utiopias than sollutions overall.
If you've somehow never read any of it just start with the big names, like Dick or Lem.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.2706
Could probably find some sub-par buzzfeed articles.
>>2647
Them failed utopias, I love them.
but yea, sci-fi is your collection for this topic mainly. Don't think I could actually just give a book that has a plot revolving around this, but it is a common thing that pops up. Like the other anon said, start with the big names.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.3869
>why you can probably chill about strong A.I.
I just watched John Searle very simply explain why machines probably won't ever replicate consciousness. He triggered a lot of Google autists dreaming of waifubots, but the only criticism I have is he got tired and cranky and didn't refute every stupid question line-by-line.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.3879
>>3869
Ai has been disproved since chinese room
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.3880
>>3879
Literally what I linked to. Don't you know who invented it?
And if you're going to be a know it all, you should say Chinese Room disproves the replication of conscious A.I. Simulation of a human mind could be possible.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.3881
>>3879
hadn't looked at the link sorry
just saw strong AI
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.3885
>>3881
No worries. I didn't need to be so salty.
Welp, board is slow as shit, but at least we're polite.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.3922
On nuclear weapons, Günther Anders is a must-read. On the subject of A.I., Nick Bostrom wrote Superintelligence that discusses what would be the consequences of such an invention. I didn't read it yet, but it seems interesting enough.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.3923
>>2639
Jaron Lanier on current and future abuses of big data and computing to destroy the economy (amongst other things) in Who Owns the Future?
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.4517
>>2647
Yeah even Star Trek TOS had those themes, as a kind of modern aesop's tales but by a modern thinker (liberal Atheist). A lot of my ethical thought is still grounded in scenarios of pulp paperbacks I read in adolescence. It's always the newest medium that the censors are less aware of, and the newest medium is freest to be subversive. Sci-fi is full of allegories, and was the choice genre for liberals trying to bypass censorship in the USSR or the during America's Red Scare.
I wish philosophers would try to make their work more interesting and narrative rather than writing it like proofs only for autistic nerds. Even Jesus knew to use parables for expediency if you want to reach a large audience.
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
d8b5f9 No.4519
>Or is everything gonna go to shite?
no
Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.