I love this article. You say that the “deep skepticism” that “we” have towards the uses of AI (insofar as it opens the way to hyperreality) is grounded in our “core human preference for reality and resistance to simulation.” I don’t disagree with this at all. It’s worth noting however that your use of “we” seems to skirt a remarkable feature of today’s cultural landscape – i.e., the fact that not everyone shares this skepticism toward full-blown AI. Many do not. And I’m wondering what your thoughts are on that.
Reading between the lines of your piece, perhaps it’s not just the nature of our external world that suffers a precessive degradation. What about us, in other words? And what about those skeptics themselves? Not the ones who simply enjoy philosophical discussion and love a good argument. I mean instead the true believers in all this – the ones who reflect on themselves as creatures of technological postmodernity and find no reality within them or within those they are closest to? Is this a case of a worrisome dehumanization, or is it simply an up-to-date story of what the Buddhist monk discovers?
I love this article. You say that the “deep skepticism” that “we” have towards the uses of AI (insofar as it opens the way to hyperreality) is grounded in our “core human preference for reality and resistance to simulation.” I don’t disagree with this at all. It’s worth noting however that your use of “we” seems to skirt a remarkable feature of today’s cultural landscape – i.e., the fact that not everyone shares this skepticism toward full-blown AI. Many do not. And I’m wondering what your thoughts are on that.
Reading between the lines of your piece, perhaps it’s not just the nature of our external world that suffers a precessive degradation. What about us, in other words? And what about those skeptics themselves? Not the ones who simply enjoy philosophical discussion and love a good argument. I mean instead the true believers in all this – the ones who reflect on themselves as creatures of technological postmodernity and find no reality within them or within those they are closest to? Is this a case of a worrisome dehumanization, or is it simply an up-to-date story of what the Buddhist monk discovers?