One possible alternative to selling one's time is selling one's data. Still too cloudy for me, but there could be considerable economic purchase in such an economy where value is abstracted that much more beyond labor.
Just the result of sophisticated pattern recognition. People who view site X have n% chance of being interested in product Y. Much of it seems significantly more mundane and inconspicuous than many of us seem to assume.wait till you get the ads for things you only thought about then!! me and version get those all the time
no youre totally wrong. the internet thinks, it teases you, its conscious and in dialogue with you.Just the result of sophisticated pattern recognition. People who view site X have n% chance of being interested in product Y. Much of it seems significantly more mundane and inconspicuous than many of us seem to assume.
Which isn;t to say there aren't cybernetic visionaries out there who actually have big picture roadmaps. I just really don't think the global techno-system is as intelligibly integrated, nor are the agendas of governmental actors so coherent, as the prevalent paranoia seems to assume.
I think there could be some interesting products derived from this premise.Somebody already sold that idea on the UK TV show Dragon's Den a few months ago, so it's on it's way.
I think so too, but I think that is more of an emergent thing, something that arises from a collective, rather than something that is willfully steered by humans. Its a higher-order entity not unlike how a species is an entity of a higher order than a specimen.no youre totally wrong. the internet thinks, it teases you, its conscious and in dialogue with you.
Yeah I think machine learning can profoundly advance further yet without even needing to be self-determining or conscious.the debate is usually about whether "artificial intelligence" will reach the level of "real" (human) intelligence, but why should it, it seems to be going a long way while remaining artificial
sweetI do think that AI will go on to enable marvelous things
I'm sure there are plenty of examples of staggering volumes of data that private parties have more or less entirely at their disposal, at their own discretion, with little to no oversight.theres different levels to it but you would be surprised how centralised the data is eg all cctv footage in a city being linked
Yeah I think machine learning can profoundly advance further yet without even needing to be self-determining or conscious.
Just encountered a useful technical definition of consciousness, for what technical definitions are worth. It was a lecture by Christof Koch, who quoted Thomas Nagel.
"An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism - something that it is like for the organism.
I don't think we are near this with AI, as we seem to have a far way left to go with understanding our own brains and minds. I do think that AI will go on to enable marvelous things whether or not it qualifies in this technical sense.
well yeah that's what i'm getting at is that AI could operate based on business savvy and technical research instead of trying to recreate human intelligence and be quite effective, easy to imagine a dystopia on those grounds, it would never wonder what is it like to be a bat, for exampleAnd I do think that much of the technical innovation pertaining to psychological capture is done less out of malice than out of business savvy and technical research. Another sense in which we project ill intent (unless you consider single-bottom-line reasoning itself to be ill intent, which would be reasonable given our history) onto things that abide by a different rubric altogether.