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1. dangerous art; AI-beings (YASMIN DISCUSSIONS)
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:12:02 -0700
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Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] dangerous art; AI-beings
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Dear Fellow Yasminers,
Please allow me to respond briefly to Bill Joel, Sofian Audry, and
Roger -- and with the inclusion of two of the self-promoting links
of which Roger and company have been so wonderfully tolerant:
Re Bill's concern about being "babied" by our software aps, I too
am deeply worried, and can foresee the day when, like H. G.
Wells' hapless Eloi, we lose a "nuts and bolts" knowledge of
what keeps our civilization operating. (See the video "Attention
Artsts of the Planet Earth" by filmmaker Oliver Barstow
( https://vimeo.com/274731207 ; transcript here:
http://www.space-machines.com/Attention%20Artists%20of%20the%20Planet%20Earth.pdf
)
I also share Sofian's unease at the idea that so much of our
crucial technology "belongs" to this or that hi-tech company --
but I think he would happily agree that his fellow author,
Google executive researcher Blaise Ag?era y Arcas, has
exhibited a heartening sense of personal responsibility
in this ( http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/6/4/18 ) essay.
And as to Roger's thought that our technology is becoming
semi-organic, I can relate: I myself developed a rash that
began to spread across my chest when my main
administrative computer recently became infected by a virus
that proved difficult to eradicate,
Glenn
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