I know that technology posts don't go over too well in here, but what's laid out in this article is something that really can't be ignored.
There are people in the world who do not share your values, people with an entirely different set of goals and agendas.
I've heard that Facebook is one of the companies that is pursuing this technology 😳.
Sorcerers have suffered under the hands of such persons before, do they have to again?
I like how the guy says nobody forces you to use your smartphone. Just try to function in modern society without it! And all they had to do was remove all the pay phones.
(But a prosthetic tentacle would be kind of cool 🐙)
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u/monkeyguy999
3 points2021-01-25 22:42
I'm hard a hard core tech person and would welcome more advancement. But I am not one to suffer tech that is extremely invasive. I don't see this in most the younger generations, they just accept whatever comes out. Really silly.
Moores law brought this up in conversation at hardware startups I belonged to during the internet boom.
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent
5 points2021-01-25 23:03
It's more than sorcerers who would suffer under such a potentially oppressive system. Any other group with alternate cognition would as well. Neurodivergents is the official term.
I'm also aware of the chestnut that if everything is equally meaningless, man-made artifices must be on par with the natural ones. But they seem especially meaningless for having been fabricated from our own diseased minds (too strong a word?).
The definition of artificial includes the phrase "not arising from natural growth or vital processes." In other words, lifeless.
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u/monkeyguy999
4 points2021-01-26 00:27
I agree. But think man made ones are much more meaningless. If such a thing is possible.
Still alarmed about the whole wearing the mark on the forehead or hand thing. Makes perfect sense these days. We walk around with trackers on us at all times already.
As a kid I wanted to develop a brain computer interface. Went so far to get a wireless eeg and make scripts that would start when I would make particular physical actions or thoughts (much harder). Maybe 5 years ago. Took a long while to be able to afford such gadgets. And the new ones are much better. No gel and such. Very curious about the new signal generation stuff. No implants though. Not that I don't like the idea. But I don't trust MS (for example) to make something that could not be hacked by a script kiddie in russia. Think of the chaos when the brain can be easily hacked by anyone.
..." "Nobody wants to say, 'Oh, remember Bob? Remember when Bob got hacked by the Russian malware? That sucked - is he still running naked through the forests?' "
lol
Thought this was funny.
... 'Oh, well can we give people a tentacle?' "
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u/danl999
3 points2021-01-25 19:23
Probably isn't a big problem.
Just like politics. Doesn't matter much.
The AIs will kill us all in the long run.
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u/monkeyguy999
1 points2021-01-25 22:43
..."The AIs will kill us all in the long run."
Yup. Or genetically engineered people / things.
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u/danl999
2 points2021-01-25 23:07
The Chinese are already working on that.
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent
8 points2021-01-25 19:24
Also, the chief issue that I can see with this after a few years is that people are not going to be interested in actual sorcery anymore, in what they can do with their own unassisted minds and bodies.
Not when they can achieve something similar but especially meaningless with technology, even if it is fabricated and artificial.
It would be too easy. And sorcery is hard.
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u/Omnislug
4 points2021-01-25 21:00
I tend to agree with this, it's become normal to accept things that are very flat dull and meaningless as if they are the great new thing. Technology has become predatory, it's converting a living world into repulsive copies of the world with zero drpth and apparently very alluring.
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u/ANewMythos
2 points2021-01-25 19:36
I believe it outpaced us a long time ago. We are now the fuel for its growth.
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u/princejask
1 points2021-01-26 02:46
Maybe technology without the warrior's path becomes dangerous to mankind's potential, as we see reflected in the world today. But the warrior's path has never needed technology. Just an unbending intent which in today's world appears just too hard to the many. Maybe.
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I know that technology posts don't go over too well in here, but what's laid out in this article is something that really can't be ignored.
There are people in the world who do not share your values, people with an entirely different set of goals and agendas.
I've heard that Facebook is one of the companies that is pursuing this technology 😳.
Sorcerers have suffered under the hands of such persons before, do they have to again?
I like how the guy says nobody forces you to use your smartphone. Just try to function in modern society without it! And all they had to do was remove all the pay phones.
(But a prosthetic tentacle would be kind of cool 🐙)
I'm hard a hard core tech person and would welcome more advancement. But I am not one to suffer tech that is extremely invasive. I don't see this in most the younger generations, they just accept whatever comes out. Really silly.
Moores law brought this up in conversation at hardware startups I belonged to during the internet boom.
It's more than sorcerers who would suffer under such a potentially oppressive system. Any other group with alternate cognition would as well. Neurodivergents is the official term.
I'm also aware of the chestnut that if everything is equally meaningless, man-made artifices must be on par with the natural ones. But they seem especially meaningless for having been fabricated from our own diseased minds (too strong a word?).
The definition of artificial includes the phrase "not arising from natural growth or vital processes." In other words, lifeless.
I agree. But think man made ones are much more meaningless. If such a thing is possible.
Still alarmed about the whole wearing the mark on the forehead or hand thing. Makes perfect sense these days. We walk around with trackers on us at all times already.
As a kid I wanted to develop a brain computer interface. Went so far to get a wireless eeg and make scripts that would start when I would make particular physical actions or thoughts (much harder). Maybe 5 years ago. Took a long while to be able to afford such gadgets. And the new ones are much better. No gel and such. Very curious about the new signal generation stuff. No implants though. Not that I don't like the idea. But I don't trust MS (for example) to make something that could not be hacked by a script kiddie in russia. Think of the chaos when the brain can be easily hacked by anyone.
..." "Nobody wants to say, 'Oh, remember Bob? Remember when Bob got hacked by the Russian malware? That sucked - is he still running naked through the forests?' "
lol
Thought this was funny.
... 'Oh, well can we give people a tentacle?' "
Probably isn't a big problem.
Just like politics. Doesn't matter much.
The AIs will kill us all in the long run.
..."The AIs will kill us all in the long run."
Yup. Or genetically engineered people / things.
The Chinese are already working on that.
Also, the chief issue that I can see with this after a few years is that people are not going to be interested in actual sorcery anymore, in what they can do with their own unassisted minds and bodies.
Not when they can achieve something similar but especially meaningless with technology, even if it is fabricated and artificial.
It would be too easy. And sorcery is hard.
I tend to agree with this, it's become normal to accept things that are very flat dull and meaningless as if they are the great new thing. Technology has become predatory, it's converting a living world into repulsive copies of the world with zero drpth and apparently very alluring.
I believe it outpaced us a long time ago. We are now the fuel for its growth.
Maybe technology without the warrior's path becomes dangerous to mankind's potential, as we see reflected in the world today. But the warrior's path has never needed technology. Just an unbending intent which in today's world appears just too hard to the many. Maybe.