I think you are confusing "I don't like it" with "It's not going to happen".
Just because you don't like it, it doesn't mean it's not going to happen.
Observe the world without prejudice. Think rationally without prejudice.
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Just because you don't like it, it doesn't mean it's not going to happen.
Observe the world without prejudice. Think rationally without prejudice.
The unstated corollary in this essay is that venture capital and oligarchs do not get to define our future simply because they have more money.
>The unstated premise of this essay is that venture capital and oligarchs do not get to define our future simply because they have more money.
AI would progress without them. Not as fast, but it would.
In my mind the inevitability of technological progress comes from our competition with each other and general desire do work more easily and effectively. The rate of change will increase with more resources dedicated to innovation, but people will always innovate.
But even if AI development continues unabated, nothing is forcing us to deploy AI in ways that reduce our quality of life. We have a choice over how it's used in our society because we are the ones who are building that society.
>Would you say the industrial revolution would have been able to be stopped by enough humans not wanting to achieve it?
Yes, let's start in early 1800s England: subsistence farmers were pushed off the land by the enclosure acts and, upon becoming landless, flocked to urban areas to work in factories. The resulting commodified market of mobile laborers enabled the rise of capitalism.
So let's say these pre-industrial subsistence farmers had instead chosen to identify with the working class Chartism movement of the mid-1800s and joined in a general strike against the landed classes who controlled parliament. In that case, the industrial revolution, lacking a sufficiently pliable workforce, might have been halted, or at least occurred in a more controlled way that minimized human suffering.