before that they would have needed a large group of trained monks and some psychics to project voices.
there had been other half-techno ways to do this kinds of shit (like Inception, which uses drugs and other things). But only the QM-level (which was actually invented by the chinese) truly replaced the monks.
The scene: https://youtu.be/ZnxJRYit44k
Found it! : https://medium.com/swlh/bicameral-mind-humanoid-robot-with-g...
Also, imagine how good they will be at managing up, given human managerial behavior just becomes a useful prompt for them.
Fortunately, they can't be told what to vote. Unless you are in the US, in which case they can be told to incorporate themselves, earn money, and donate it to particular Super PAC's which is how its done now.
Seriously. Scary.
On the other hand, if Comcast can finally provide sensible customer support it's clear this is will be an historically significant win for humanity! Your own "Comcast" handler, who remembers everything about you that you tried to scrub from the internet. Singularity, indeed.
I already pointed out they can influence elections with money.
And bots are already used to influence on social media. AI bots are going to be insidious.
I think that’s pretty extreme hyperbole.
A temporary exception would be the economically still incentivized disruption of the environment. I say temporary, because at some point it will stop, by necessity. Hopefully before.
But I can relate to the deep frustration you are expressing.
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The problem isn't individuals, for the most part. The problem is that we build up systems, to provide stability and peace, and to be more just and equitable, by decentralizing the power in them. That way the powerful can't change them on a whim. (Even though they can still game them.)
But this also makes them very resistant to change.
Another effect is that as systems stabilize myriads of seemingly unimportant aspects within themselves, that stability represents the selection of standards and behaviors that give the system its own "will" to survive. That "will to survive" is distributed across the contexts and needs of all participants.
So any pressures to make changes, no matter how well thought out, encounter vast quantities of evolved resistance, often from invisible or unexpected places.
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My view, is that this cost of changing systems needs to be accepted and used to help make the changes. I.e. get all the CFO's of all the major fossil fuel companies in a room. Establish what kind of tax incentives would allow them to rationally support the smoothly transitioning all their corporate resources from dirty energy to clean energy.
It would be very expensive. It would look like a handout. Worse, even a reward for being a bottleneck to change.
But they are the bottleneck precisely because of all the good they have done - that dirty energy lifted the world economy. And whatever it cost to "pay them off" would be much less than not paying them off.
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The costs of changing systems needs be dealt with, with realism about the costs to get the benefits, and creativity and courage about paying for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
> Jaynes uses "bicameral" (two chambers) to describe a mental state in which the experiences and memories of the right hemisphere of the brain are transmitted to the left hemisphere via auditory hallucinations.
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> According to Jaynes, ancient people in the bicameral state of mind experienced the world in a manner that has some similarities to that of a person with schizophrenia. Rather than making conscious evaluations in novel or unexpected situations, the person hallucinated a voice or "god" giving admonitory advice or commands and obey without question: One was not at all conscious of one's own thought processes per se. Jaynes's hypothesis is offered as a possible explanation of "command hallucinations" that often direct the behavior of those with first rank symptoms of schizophrenia, as well as other voice hearers.