Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou...
by glitchc on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:24PM
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I think that's what you need to realize. Technology is only one kind of tool in our toolbox for shaping humanity. Other tools include:
- Policy: With regards to technology, who's in charge, how we use it.
- Laws: How do we protect vulnerable (defenseless) people from the negative repercussions of technology.
- Philosophy: How we think about things, treat other humans, our environment.
And I'm saying all of this as a technophile. The same tool that got you into the hole is likely not the tool that will be useful for getting you out.
Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou...
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:33PM
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The tools you mention are also intertwined, with technology in particular being in the driver seat of changes in the other areas you mention. Therefore, it'll still be a necessary component of the solution, even if it won't be the only one.
Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou...
by glitchc on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:59PM
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I firmly disagree. While technology is certainly an enabler, either to implement the solution or to enforce it of a particular solution, it is not the tool from which the solution must be derived. The intertwining that you envision emerges when decision-making bodies look at a particular technology and decide how it should influence humanity.
Particular technologies are highly intertwined - both directly and causally - so you can't really micromanage this. You have to push for technological develoment as a whole, and trim developments here, encourage there. For instance, we wouldn't be talking about renewable energy sources were it not for coal furnaces and internal combustion engines that allowed the world to progress to the point we even can exploit renewables. In this case not only we need the ladder because of the spade, but we also can have a ladder because of a spade.