Recently, while on the climb-down from the acute effects of Ayahuasca, my friend and I were discussing whether technology could ever vanquish nature, specifically in the context of the besieged Amazon rainforest.
AI is just the latest 'hype' and I'm with Public Enemy on that... Brave now runs 'AI' on searches on Android which is just basically a preferred search result. BIBO, bias in, bias out. That is why it is being pushed in the way it is. Meanwhile the best language model has the IQ of a cat, apparently... I think cats are way smarter personally. Then there's the question of powering these vast data centres and their reliance on coding...
Hubris doesn't begin to encompass the 'tech bros', DARPA stooges... Carry on building your bunkers on faultlines fucktards...
Clearly we have evidence from past mass extinctions that information cannot be created nor destroyed if we admit that time is a simple illusion as the destroyed ecosystems arise in another but similar form very very quickly so if we tried to destroy the Amazon it would morph into another form as life has done in the past. Clearly simple Darwinistic ideas are pure crap. As my brother a PhD microbiologist always says "The people who are most convinced of "evolution" via a Darwinistic route are always those who know least about Darwinism".
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
Bad premise to start with. Why does nature need to be defeated?
[PS: The Amazon Rainforest only exists in it's current form because the tribes there have been stewarding it for hundreds of years. The lived with nature. Nothing to defeat.
It's our modern idea that nature is filled with problems to be solved that creates the problems we live with.
"Another way of looking at it, of course, is that technological progress by man is a natural process itself, so the question “can technology vanquish nature?” doesn’t make sense."
True. Man is nature, created by God. That is what the transhumanists don't understand. What I find amusing is that the transhumanists supposedly are working so hard never to die, but yet have ABSOLUTELY no interest in using "science" to find out what happens to us after we die. The bottom line is that the human race will not disappear from the earth, no matter the technological progress, until Jesus returns. Jesus is not coming back to an earth devoid of humans. Comforting thought really. Humans will NEVER extinct ourselves, no matter what dumbass things we try to do to ourselves.
Both of you are wrong, we could destroy nature and it would take us down with it. Without real food we'd die of starvation we really have no idea what micronutrients the body needs long term, with only input from screens we'd go bat shit insane.
AI is just the latest 'hype' and I'm with Public Enemy on that... Brave now runs 'AI' on searches on Android which is just basically a preferred search result. BIBO, bias in, bias out. That is why it is being pushed in the way it is. Meanwhile the best language model has the IQ of a cat, apparently... I think cats are way smarter personally. Then there's the question of powering these vast data centres and their reliance on coding...
Hubris doesn't begin to encompass the 'tech bros', DARPA stooges... Carry on building your bunkers on faultlines fucktards...
Clearly we have evidence from past mass extinctions that information cannot be created nor destroyed if we admit that time is a simple illusion as the destroyed ecosystems arise in another but similar form very very quickly so if we tried to destroy the Amazon it would morph into another form as life has done in the past. Clearly simple Darwinistic ideas are pure crap. As my brother a PhD microbiologist always says "The people who are most convinced of "evolution" via a Darwinistic route are always those who know least about Darwinism".
Look mom it's a talking asshole shades of William Burroughs.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
Bad premise to start with. Why does nature need to be defeated?
[PS: The Amazon Rainforest only exists in it's current form because the tribes there have been stewarding it for hundreds of years. The lived with nature. Nothing to defeat.
It's our modern idea that nature is filled with problems to be solved that creates the problems we live with.
"Another way of looking at it, of course, is that technological progress by man is a natural process itself, so the question “can technology vanquish nature?” doesn’t make sense."
True. Man is nature, created by God. That is what the transhumanists don't understand. What I find amusing is that the transhumanists supposedly are working so hard never to die, but yet have ABSOLUTELY no interest in using "science" to find out what happens to us after we die. The bottom line is that the human race will not disappear from the earth, no matter the technological progress, until Jesus returns. Jesus is not coming back to an earth devoid of humans. Comforting thought really. Humans will NEVER extinct ourselves, no matter what dumbass things we try to do to ourselves.
Both of you are wrong, we could destroy nature and it would take us down with it. Without real food we'd die of starvation we really have no idea what micronutrients the body needs long term, with only input from screens we'd go bat shit insane.