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At the core of the myth of the machine, he argued, is the idea that the development of technology is inherently connected to the improvement of the human condition. In other words, if we just keep upgrading our tech, human life will keep getting better.
The myth of the machine offers a secular equivalent. It allows us to view beneficial outcomes as inherent to technological development itself, while understanding harms as incidental or as unintended byproducts. These downsides are often seen as the result of human failures, whether through misuse by bad actors or through careless deployment.
According to Mumford, a similar transvaluation took place in the modern era when we ceased to value technology in the service of human goals and values and came instead to regard the efficiency and productivity obtained through technical innovation as an end in itself, to which humans should subordinate themselves.
https://sts.hks.harvard.edu/people/fellows/conor-mcglynn/
https://www.tcd.ie/alumni/alumni/interviews/conor-mcglynn.php
Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | Philosophy | The Guardian
Guter Guardian Artikel über Akzelerationismus, Nick Land, Warwick University
Half a century ago, in the great hippie year of 1967, an acclaimed young American science fiction writer, Roger Zelazny, published his third novel. In many ways, Lord of Light was of its time, shaggy with imported Hindu mythology and cosmic dialogue. Yet there were also glints of something more forward-looking and political. One plot strand concerned a group of revolutionaries who wanted to take their society “to a higher level” by suddenly transforming its attitude to technology. Zelazny called them the Accelerationists.
Weil der Kapitalismus all das desintegriere und zerstöre, was nicht in seine sich konstant rationalisierenden Prozesse passe, werde er sich nach Land an seinem Ende dank der von Menschen erzeugten Widersprüche durch die Desintegration des Menschen auflösen. Der Kapitalismus werde daher nicht sich selbst, sondern den Menschen zerstören. Entweder durch eine transhumanistische Umgestaltung des Menschen oder durch dessen Extinktion, die den Weg ebne in eine neue Zivilisation aus Maschinen und künstlichen Intelligenzen, die zusammen eine Singularität bildeten.
zeigt auf den Wikipedia Artikel, nicht das Buch von George Dyson
Artikel von Bill Joy.
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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot Carl Sagan und
George B. Dyson
„We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.“
War in Tübingen am MPG
Grundlagenforschung und AGI Risiken Papers
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/04/the-big-idea-can-we-stop-ai-making-humans-obsolete