Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison
Collector of lost things. Writer. Agents: Fiction & Non Fiction: @MWHamilton Screen: Nick Marston @TheCBG_ ewanmorrison.com United Kingdom Joined June 2009-
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When Big Tech talk about the inevitable AI/robotic future, they only talk of positive outcomes. Ask about negative outcomes & they insist these aren't inevitable at all. E.g AI controlled cities; lethal drones; mass unemployment; nanobot 'grey goo' Only good is inevitable. Why?
Amazing how the AI gurus all repeat each others claims and aspirations verbatim. Like they all share the same tick sheet. They say Artificial Superintelligence will: Create radical abundance - tick Cure all disease- tick Spread consciousness to the stars - tick Prolong life and…
A thing that we are forgetting - that it is possible to appreciate a beautifully written piece of writing – but to utterly disagree with it. Our libraries should be teeming with texts that may even despise, loathe or fear.
For too long Scottish politics has had an authoritarian idea of what the role of govt is. The belief has been that govt must control & shape people for their own good. We've lost the belief that govt humbly serves the will of the people. After the last fiascos this has to change
All species on earth should be genetically re-engineered so that they can no longer inflict or experience suffering - according to an actual existing transhumanist manifesto. That’s 2.13 million species to be remade so they no longer eat each other.
Here's the manifesto of the Transhumanist who believes that every one of the 2.13 million species on earth should be bio-tech re-engineered to no longer experiences suffering by killing & eating each other. "The Abolitionist Project" by David Pearce. hedweb.com/abolitionist-p…
People who “believe in super intelligent AI” often use the logical fallacy of stating a desired end as if it were a predetermined inevitability. - “it is unstoppable” they say “it will happen” “it is coming in four years….in ten years”. “This is the future” “the future is here”
Nemesis - the Greek Goddess of judgment & retribution - visited our country today. She administers justice against acts of hubris - when mortals overstep their bounds, into pride & arrogance. With her scales & sword, she intervenes to maintain the balance of the natural order.
The amazing Jan Švankmajer (1934) - Czech film director, animator, writer, playwright and artist.
The amazing Jan Švankmajer (1934) - Czech film director, animator, writer, playwright and artist.
What's the movie that must most importantly be "felt", rather than "understood"? I'll begin: Mirror (1975) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
What other life forms do you want to “make better” thanks to AI gene editing? Let’s be clear: this won’t actually happen, but the vision is the result of, and motivation for, a broader ideology that continues to expand in deeply troubling ways. It shuts down other possibilities.
What other life forms do you want to “make better” thanks to AI gene editing? Let’s be clear: this won’t actually happen, but the vision is the result of, and motivation for, a broader ideology that continues to expand in deeply troubling ways. It shuts down other possibilities.
"Girls on a Dune" by Léon Spilliaert. The introverted Belgian artist who lived and worked by the sea (1881-1946).
Classic-Tech-hype-fail. The Sinclair C5 ("one-person battery electric recumbent tricycle") launched in the UK in 1983, as an alternative to cars & bikes. It became a laughing stock, described as a "Formula One bath-chair". It flopped and the company went bust within two years.
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@KennyFarq @thetimes You may underestimate how Presbyterian Scottish culture is, regardless of the avowed beliefs of any leader. I’d put a paradoxical bet on Kate Forbes being more liberal and tolerant in practice than the Sturgeon-Green-Yousaf troika has been (in reality vs messaging)
@MrEwanMorrison Yup - and many supporters have bought into the idea that this is the government's job with great enthusiasm.
@MrEwanMorrison @TylerMo41608321 Again Ellul kept a distance from the French philosophical intelligentsia. He stayed in Bordeaux mostly. He certainly knew the works of most of the French philosophes and sociologues. Yet in Humiliation of the Word, as a former Marxist, he goes after most of them.
@MrEwanMorrison @webmasterdave @bjorn_stjerne 'The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".' ― André Gide
@JohnAALogan @MrEwanMorrison @bjorn_stjerne The Garden of Eden was vegan. And Isaiah prophesies the living world will be vegan once more: reprogramming-predators.com/peaceable-king… Let’s stop venerating a sick snuff movie romanticised as Mother Nature.
@webmasterdave @sainimatic @MrEwanMorrison 1. Plants can suffer by dictionary definition. 2. Who gets to decide species numbers? 3. Functional suffering retained? Who decides? 4. The unintended consequences could easily be catastrophic to the food chain. That would cause hell on Earth alone.
@webmasterdave @sainimatic @MrEwanMorrison It sounds like a level of hope and trust in Scientism not borne out by our abilities. And if we're already living in some sort of historical simulator, one of infinite universes, how would you stop the suffering across the board then?
A lil cognitive dissonance for lunch 🍽️
@POSMarketer You can have Ayn Rand libertarians working on AI - and yet the form they are creating is anti-democratic, authoritarian and against ownership. It's like they've been tricked by the form and inherent agenda of AI itself.
@MrEwanMorrison That vision of Scientific Progress was also very popular with sci fi writers in the West in the late 19th century/early 20th century.
@MrEwanMorrison They also claim that AI will create such 'post-scarcity abundance' that we'll all get generous Universal Basic Income (somehow, paid by someone?), which boils down to the 'fully automated luxury communist utopia' long desired by tech industry Lefties.
@MrEwanMorrison Similar situation in Australia. Censorship has risen its ugly head again. Social services are no longer "services" but agents for social controls. Police powers on the increase etcetera...
@webmasterdave @MrEwanMorrison This discussion raises important long-range ethical issues. Come the day humans or AI can design entire ecosystems de novo, should we, since these would contain predators, parasites, diseases, etc. & and thus lots of suffering? Would terraforming be an atrocity?
@MrEwanMorrison You are more likely to find a "safe space" to recover in after seeing even the title of a book or author's name that doesn't share your world view...
@MrEwanMorrison @TylerMo41608321 I somehow doubt it. Ellul never left France much. And the French tended to look askance at him, yet the Americans were listening. There is an Ellul Society. ellul.org This video is pretty much the only documentary in English on him. youtube.com/watch?v=BOCtu-…
@MrEwanMorrison His work is proto AI in a way. After I taught him photoshop mid 90s he used it to make collages of others work an just add a models head.
@webmasterdave @MrEwanMorrison Better than those that do, and drastically altering the world before we can empirically even prove it sounds like a recipe for disaster; and I certainly do not have faith in human infrastructure to successfully cradle this new world; but pursuing greater hospitality is good