Comment by AndrewKemendo
Comment by AndrewKemendo a day ago
That is perfectly on topic and you are identifying correctly flaw in the argument
Technology is neutral it’s always been neutral it will be neutral I quote Bertrand Russell on this almost every day:
“As long as war exists all new technology will be utilized for war”
You can abstract this away from “war” into anything that’s undesirable in society.
What people are dealing with now is the newest transformational technology that they can watch how utilizing it inside the current structural and economic regime of the world accelerates the already embedded destructive nature of structure and economic system we built.
I’m simply waiting for people to finally realize that, instead of blaming it on “AI” just like they’ve always blamed it on social media, TV, radio, electricity etc…
it’s like literally the oldest trope with respect to technology and humanity some people will always blame the technology when in fact it’s not…it’s the society that’s a problem
Society needs to look inward at how it victimizes itself through structural corrosion, not look for some outside person who is victimizing them
> Technology is neutral it’s always been neutral it will be neutral
I agree with a lot of what you say here but not this. People choose what to make easy and what to make more difficult with technology all the time. This does not make something neutral. Obviously something as simple as a hammer is more neutral but this doesn't extend to software systems.