Artificial Intelligence..... A THREAT?

And create the first "fridgewasher" 

Ready filled with ice cold cider, were geniuses, let's go into business .

Bringing an end to my current ponder, 

There is an idea called 'accelerationism ' that describes to increasingly intense whirlwind of technological innovation, particularly in the Al field.

There is a tension that people feel (I feel) between an 'end of human history hopelessness' and a speeding up storm of technological complexity. So from this comes the thought, is this where machine learning gathers speed as humans fall by the wayside? To repeat the point in an earlier thread, as our activities, indeed the very power consumption of AI destroys the planetary conditions under which we can live, will the machines who don't need to breathe eventually turn off the AC that is keeping the last people alive? Will the machines outlive us in a continuing uninterrupted capitalist culture?

As a human, you can say that whether or not this happens is a moot point.

You could also ask, can we stop the capitalism that is destroying us? Sadly not because when presented with our miserably short lives, our parents and and society present us with a programme of events, school, marry children work, and capitalism as a means to compete for the resources needed to feel fulfilled, successful etc. Too young to realise that there might be a different future possible, off people go, burning fuel to build their dreams. Anyone with alternatives was shouted down or trampled in the rush to grab. People don't see far beyond their own selves, they do what their peers do, what their parents did. And anyone challenging their right to burn fuel to achieve that same life should be thrown in jail!

If you met a hunter, who said their job was killing the last remaining tigers to sell some parts of them to the Chinese, who are you to say 'hey! Stop that! Because they would say, with these tiger parts I can feed my family, send my girl to school, it's my job no different to yours. We understand that this is capitalism, we all contribute to destroying the world around us. We are powerless to stop ourselves, we are paralysed as our extinction that we know we are causing rushes towards us faster even than our cautious scientists predicted.

Is the US style enevitable, actually a fuller development of the path humans are on?

i was wondering if capitalism made us more happy, such that we are currently the happiest people ever, making it all worth it. Was everyone on previous history bored, with their big empty brains, waiting for max entertainment choice that we have obtained? Did the amazonian hunter gatherers sit around the lodge of an evening, bored out of their skills with hunting stories, wishing they had an iphone? If this were true, it would justify ruining the planet , well, a bit.

Is capitalism actually inevitable? Is a socialistic society actually impossible? This may in fact be true. All recent tries at it seem to end with corrupt rich oligarchy, as some people play capitalistically, making fools of those who remain kind and generous. Are these people bad, or are they inevitable because capitalism is inevitable?