Have you read the Unabombers manifesto? (lemmy.world)

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I remember reading it many years ago. He made some good points - which is disconcerting.

Has anyone else read it? What did you think?

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[-] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I remember watching the Netflix series about him. I was shocked because I actually agreed with a lot of what he had to say about the society we're living in right now. We're at the brink of AI being a force that is no longer controllable. We're seeing deepfakes and other shit that will ruin peoples life. And we're moving towards a society where everything can be replaced with code.

I myself have grown up to these changes and it's insane how much our world has changed over the last 30 years. It's shocking.

[-] subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think the next hundred years will bring more changes to humanity than the last 10,000 years have. We have devised methods to gaslight ourselves; we're moving into a world where the concept of truth is malleable and unknowable. The machines will get smarter, the rich will get richer. I'll be 66 years old in about a month. I have many more yesterdays than tomorrows. I'm not looking forward to leaving this world, but I'm not particularly interested in being a participant in what comes next.

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