• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    That’s not anything new. All new technologies get restrictions at some point. During the early 2000s is was encryption.

    After WW2 Churchill restricted all information on the enigma decryption machines for 100 years.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    There are really only two options here. Either this is:

    • Late-stage capitalism grift, or
    • Genuine approach to technological singularity

    If I was interested in betting on it, and since we live in late-stage capitalism we pretty much have to be interested in betting to survive, then I would place all my bets on late-stage capitalism grift.

    If it’s the former, then it’s just a thousand monkeys on typewriters hiding inside a gorilla suit and reading the best one and who really fucking cares what “future” these assholes are trying to sell to us. Don’t buy it.

    If it’s the latter, then all bets are off, nobody can predict what happens after singularity is reached, it’s literally unknowable, and if this is indeed the pull of technological singularity that we are feeling, then I think we are either too close and have too much momentum and too little thrust to escape now, or we are already past the event horizon anyway. Humanity as we know it is over.

    I’m 99.9995% sure it’s capitalism grift though. Just watch.