I think there are two roots to this problem that capitalism did not create, and the end of capitalism will not solve (in and of itself):
- the human organism is massively maladapted for the environment we engineered, and our hegemony is an ecological risk unto itself
- pollution
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So my feeling is, until we get really serious about how to solve a 10 billion plus population boom, or our ludicrous destructive capabilities vs. our very limited species-level coordination, or the staggering inefficiency of our tech, capitalism remains an academic issue.
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Here's the idea I don't trust:
The idea that people will get together worldwide and agree that capitalism kinda sucks and should be replaced AND that they figure out how to create a system that pollutes minimally, repairs ecosystems, distributes resources equitably...
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We're thinking in tandem, here. Some options:
- destroy/replace worst polluters & technologies
- asteroid mining & renewable tech
- kill 5 billion+ people, start over (ok, am half-joking)
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Here is something I can't parse well:
We can simulate, by some rudimentary criteria, the intelligence of certain not-so-quick animals. By combining that with superhuman processing speed, memory handling, clarity about goals etc., you can create pockets of superhuman performance.
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Yes, I am not suggesting these systems are conventionally intelligent.
I am suggesting they are embodied agents with force behind their decision-making structure.
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A dumb-ass-shit suppression drone with a directive to suppress dissent still has real-world implications.
But what happens when we network these systems and give them operational autonomy?
People laughed with gallows humor at the AI murder policy thing from the US army.
But what about when your AI murder policy is overseen by an AI legal system and AI mission command? What does it even *do*?
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We can see that human cognition fucks itself in our environment. But humans are full of biological redundancies and failsafe systems.
You can put a bunch of human-made complex systems into play and QA them to hell and back, but what happens when they interact organically?
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