Maybe our AI overlords won't appreciate our tendencies to abuse and exploit each other and crack down on things like "child-staffed cobalt mines"...

Next stop the Culture!

karp773 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do not keep my hopes too high. I have two questions. First, will they feed us once they take power? Second, will they neuter us?

palmotea 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nah, our AI overlords will be aligned with our existing overlords.

So, to the cobalt mine, you!

	▲	NonHyloMorph 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.weslpress.org/9780819575777/the-sound-of-culture... Louis chude sokei provides some insights into the historic intertwinedness of race and technology, including the term robot and its epistemological connection to race riots in the US, early to recent sci fi (from victorian age to the apparently adequate representation of rastafarianism as in mel gibson) It is a great read to sensitise oneself to a different perspective as machine as the other of human thtough the lens of the history of people who were considered just that (machines&other) Also: https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2021/programme/exhibiti... but vibe to me is more fitting: https://youtu.be/VpXiEb2KVoY?is=G928vVr8M8IjFQPw (CLPPNG - splendor and misery - sub pop)