Re:Intelligence is everywhere: From AI to cephalopods
by thwoeir234324 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:14PM
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> nature and technology are not in opposition
No, nature and the "new" man are in opposition. This is precisely why "AI" is seen as a threat in the modern world: because the people who wield it can't be trusted (by others).
This comes down to our philosophical roots: everyone in the world today, more or less, are Christian (or more broadly, Abrahamic) in thinking, with the unshaken belief of a body-restricted self aka "soul". The rigid rules of religion are required for this particular reason: selfish-ness in this understanding does indeed becomes a curse to society.
Classical(1) Indian (and perhaps Egypt-Greece) philosophies have long understood the limitations of this thinking and destruction (and strangely, also prosperity) it leads to. More than this, the 'ditya' thinking is very obviously wrong, in much the same way that economics' usage of homo-economicus is.
(1) "Classical" because most Indians (and Asians broadly) are epistemically closer to the West than to their ancestors. The West mostly uses Indian traditions superficially for the inflation of their already inflated egos.
No, nature and the "new" man are in opposition. This is precisely why "AI" is seen as a threat in the modern world: because the people who wield it can't be trusted (by others).
This comes down to our philosophical roots: everyone in the world today, more or less, are Christian (or more broadly, Abrahamic) in thinking, with the unshaken belief of a body-restricted self aka "soul". The rigid rules of religion are required for this particular reason: selfish-ness in this understanding does indeed becomes a curse to society.
Classical(1) Indian (and perhaps Egypt-Greece) philosophies have long understood the limitations of this thinking and destruction (and strangely, also prosperity) it leads to. More than this, the 'ditya' thinking is very obviously wrong, in much the same way that economics' usage of homo-economicus is.
(1) "Classical" because most Indians (and Asians broadly) are epistemically closer to the West than to their ancestors. The West mostly uses Indian traditions superficially for the inflation of their already inflated egos.