Comment by pjerem | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pjerem | Hacker News Reader

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No hasty conclusions.

We switched to this always connected world only 10-15 years ago and I think we are far from having seen all the consequences.

Algorithmic bubbles, mass surveillance, addictive algorithms and applications are fairly recent and we can already see really disgusting consequences.

Our civilization is resilient so it takes time to erode but since a few years, I have hard time imagining a positive technological future. All I see is technology made to exploit human breaches for money.

Humans don’t look like they are adapting to Tik Tok properly so I’m not confident they’ll understand this new AI powered world.

(I have no doubt that powerful and dominant humans will adapt)

The sum of all human knowledge in every pocket and all we use it for is to view fake photos of fake people living their fake lifestyles.

We were gonna cure cancer and explore space. It’s shameful.

The most successful scientists, engineers, developers and designers are trying to persuade more people to press a button to buy a thing.

We could be in space.

...Investors don't fund that. They chase yield. The eternal chase for the bigger sucker is way more fruitful on earth than in space.

We are in space, and more of us will be each year, and it's because of internetworking and smartphones and data technology accelerating progress.

Cancer isn't a single disease that that can ever really be cured in the way that infectious diseases can be cured. But new drugs have raised 5-year survival rates for many types of cancer. The pharmaceutical industry at least is still highly productive.

Unfortunately we are offsetting those medical gains with higher incidence of some types of cancer. This is due to exposure to carcinogens (toxic chemicals) and unhealthy lifestyles (mainly obesity).

Yeah, I’m not so sure we can say we’ve “adapted” to this world. In my opinion, we aren’t ready for the future with AI because we haven’t yet figured out today’s world without its prevalence.

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