AlphaEsponjosus

What would be the difference with current social media? I mean, I don't mind if there is porn or even graphic violence, I can sort out that content or find it if I want. The main issue (for me) about social media (or internet) is that people became behaving so similar in all sites: trying to make funny/witty unrelated comments, and seeking for popularity.

For surprise of no one. I mean, before AI we have the problem with stored knowledge. If I am not wrong, psychologists discovered that students were using websites as "storing devices", students werer not willing to memorize data that could be find easily on the internet. I think that it was not bad per se, since specialized knowledge is increasing the human brain can not store all the info related to a topic.

However, the AI is solving problems that are required to be solved by students in order to learn/develope an ability. I think that we are abusing the use of this new tecnological tools, the machines are the ones learning/thinking/solving while we seek comfortability, not putting effort into solving problems.

We are becoming unskilled enough to be exploited with no option.

I find amusing the: "IQ is inherited/its geneticslly related" argument. If you study all the factors that shape an individual (socio-economic status, environment, dietary habits, etc), you can see the impact those factors have on an individual. For instance, if toddlers consume excesive sugar around 3 years old, it has been observed that around 8-9 years they have lower IQ than their peers that have a more healty diet. Not just that, we now know about the microbiota-gut-brain axis, and we know how our mood affect our performance in everything we do.

If individuals are exposed to different environments, there are likely to learn more things. This is only possible if you have the means (usually money) to acces those new and different environments.

What about Quality of life? If you struggle to meet your basic needs, then its more likely that you will strugle in everything else.

If you present this facts to people, most of the time they would agree. But if you use this information to discuss IQ, a lot of people, including experts, would dismiss them in favor of the genetics argument.

The article does a good job debunking the myth, however, as the article says, the issue is systemic and I think that it can't be solved because it is not about the intelligence of individuals, we need to solve the issues related to the factors that affects an indivdual. Intelligence is a subproduct of an individual's development. And this makes feel less special to people that have some social privileges.

Thats not the same. In this case, a machine made a descision that was against its intructions. If a machine make decisions by itself, no one knows avout the process. A team of humans makimg decisions, benefits from multiple point of views, despite the manager being the one that aproves what is implemented or decides the course ofnthe proyect.

Humans make mistakes, and they are critical too (crowdstrike), but letting machines decide, and build, and everything, just let humans out of the processes, and with the current state of "AI", thats just dumb.

I wonder if NASA will still existing in 2028.

I do not think that porn and flash games were the reason the internet became trendy and stupid. I blame social media, like tuenti, facebook, fotolog, hi5, even myspace.

The thing with stupid people overcoming the internet was not corporations investing on publicity nor searching engines selling the rankibgs of searching results. What made stupidity feel safe on internet and become trending, were the spaces that allowed those people to gather, to be in "the same place" with no one there to judge, correct them and laugh at them for being ignorants. This gave them the wrong idea that they were relevant in a sense were despite knowing nothing about anything, their opinion was valid and deserved respect, as much as the opinions from experts.

You mean... like seriously?

No. The energy consumption does not need to decrease, the source must be more eficient. We have nuclear energy, despite the propaganda, nuclear energy (specially the Thorium reactors) produce very little waste and pollute less than fosil fuels or even solar panels. You do not need to discover a new source of energy to stop climate change. The problem is that people keep thinking in how much it will cost.

Again, GDP measures how much money is spent within a country, if there are several intermediaries in a supply chain, the cost of products and services increases and the GDP tends to rise.

If a country change direction and leans towards nuclear energy, the GDP (that is in fact a terrible measure) will increase cause the new expenditures.

What are you talking about? If you take 2.5% to spend it on better infrastructure and existing technologies (that are more environmentally friendly) and develop new technologies, you are not reducing GDP. GDP just measures the ammount of money a country spends.

Of course you need to spend money and energy (specially energy, everything in the universe is energy), but the solution is not to stop moving. We need to use energy and resources in order to switch to better technologies.

What? When saying that "X" is an accident, nobody means "nature says 'oooops'. Nature is neither conscious nor alive, if universe were alive and creates and shapes life, why is there so many errors happening in the universe?

Everything exist by " accident", and that means that is the result of random events that happen unexpectedly in unimaginable places, leading to an environent were the outcome of this events causes more random events.

Why universe insist in making life so uncommon if it has the secret to create and replicate?

You are right. The technology is part of the problem. The article points how social media xan not solve the problem. In my opinion social media is the biggest problem regarding this topic. Socialazing is a core necesity in human nature, denying this and other biological traits is what causes discomfort on individuals. Technology is only increassing the issue, not because technology is inherently bad or evil, but cause technology is developed to pursue wealt and power, bot in behalf of society.

Why? You want to solve the problems caused by the lack of social integration-interaction by not socializing using VR. The problem with VR, videochat, social networks,etc., is that you are not there, you do not face the challenges nor the consequences of social activities. People gets anxious just thinking about that sonthey never leave their comfort zone, thus causing more issues on the individuals and,obviously in the society.

Society and social system are not working ideally, in fact is far from acceptable levels if you ask me. But the solution is not ostracism disguised as virtual interaction.