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Phil Balla's avatar

Since Herodotus told the story of Solon and the Persian king, it's been one of our key stories, yes, J L?

Always so many lies built into this narcissism, as abstracting others always distances one further and further from one's own humanity as well as from that of others as others, as individuals.

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JDinTX's avatar

Yep, never acknowledging others, or their pain keeps the monied from feeling anything. How very Stepford-like. Maybe AI is the answer for us to escape the burdens of empathetic humans.

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Phil Balla's avatar

". . . to escape the burdens of empathetic humans."

Jeri, you know how they answered that in Don Siegel's 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

Just fall asleep. The pod people version of you will take over -- and you never again need face complication, complexity, nuance, or anything else invoking the personal, love, or any other human emotion.

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J L Graham's avatar

Or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Hyde was there all the time, hyding in human nature; the potion just pushed Jekyll's better angels aside.

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JDinTX's avatar

AinтАЩt there yet.

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Monnina's avatar

AI is seen as a Final Solution by the sociopathic tech bros and CEOs to pesky humans who possess imagination and whose intelligence is empathic rather than abstract. Preceded by the present day softening up mass mediated reprogramming. Creating a social narrative that frames sensitivity to other living beings sufferings and compassion as a unique mental state that calls for specific cognitive treatment.

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JDinTX's avatar

We have a lot of us pesky humans, I hope enough to resist another Final Solution

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J L Graham's avatar

Certainly that remains a risk. That and accumulated folly forcing nature to trump us all.

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JDinTX's avatar

That lady rules us fools

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