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“Artificial Intelligence must directly relate to people and people's needs. The biggest challenge for designers, scientists, managers and engineers these days is to develop a language, a method of actually letting people participate in the design and architectural and technological processes. We have failed in that. This is not the fault of the people we are working for or with, but this is our fault and we have to think about that.” - Victor Papanek (remixed by samim)
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"Artificial Intelligence rests on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence" - Lewis Mumford, remixed
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"Technology alone is not an answer" - Victor Papanek
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"We make machines fit people because we don’t believe in squeezing people into machines." - Henry Dreyfuss, Designing for People (1967)
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Theory: When you have extremely intelligent people that experienced an extrem lack of love (in early childhood), you end up with a world of trouble.
Or simply put: Intelligence - Love = Disaster.Behind every predatory tech empire, imperial military or weapon of mass destruction - you'll find a group of people that are deeply suffering - mostly from a lack of love.
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Potent strategies against increasingly sophisticated automated "Denial-Of-Service" (DDOS) & "Social Engineering" Attacks against human attention & judgment (Fakenews, DeepFakes, Botnets, etc.) are Meditation (Attention Management) and Education (Digital Literacy) - not more tech
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Augmentation Technology can not only be used for human performance enhancement - but the very same tech can be used for targeted performance degradation at scale. As the cost of war is dramatically dropping, we must resist mindless hype & contemplate such questions earnestly.
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Given that the entire A.I industry is controlled by the high priests of capitalism (billionaires & organisation they own) - we must seriously contemplate if all these new intelligent machines won't mainly be used to amplify the worst of humanity: greed, inequality, crime, war, etc.
If our advanced intelligent machines are mainly used to sell & kill stuff, the outcomes are inevitably highly stupid. -
"You know enough to know what's not true, but you can't necessarily connect all of the dots to know what is true" - Richard Thieme at DEF CON 22 recalling a conversation with a friend from NSA
"Fancy computer models and convoluted technical language about War: Organisations like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Microsoft - their technical language is an obfuscation. As what they create is woven into everyday life - the devices & systems shed their tool-like qualities & become part of our very humanity" - Richard Thieme
"With the explosion of discoveries in the area of neurosciences will come individuals, political entities and countries that will exploit those findings for nefarious purposes. In the health sciences the enchantment market is growing offshore and is often hidden. Customers do not posses a diagnosable neurological disorder but they are seeking some cognitive performance advantages or want to prevent a probable decline. And in the performance degradation arena, advantages that intersect our core values as scientists and physicians are joined and challenged in new ways." - Christopher Green - Chief of biomedical & Life science division of CIA.
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"The old categories of composer, performer and audience are oversimplifications. There can be an infinite number of gradations between and combinations of them". - Laurie Spiegel
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It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - William Bruce Cameron
