> Mr. Haldane.. an attractive picture of the future as it f may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness... I should like to agree.. [but] a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me... sceptical. I... fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. #Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father #Daedalus, was destroyed
https://russell-j.com/20-Icarus-FofS.HTM
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> Because we do not live in the Star Trek-inspired rational, humanist world that Altman seems to be hallucinating. We live under capitalism, and under that system, the effects of flooding the market with technologies that can plausibly perform the economic tasks of countless working people is not that those people are suddenly free to become philosophers and artists. It means that those people will find themselves staring into the abyss
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein?
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