Status Updates From God, Human, Animal, Machine...

Автор проводит параллель между тем как мы наделяем машины сознанием, чувствами, моралью и практически оживляем их, а сами описываем свой мозг и сознание как компьютер.

Amazon, in 2018, filed a patent for “anticipatory shipping,” presuming that it will eventually be able to predict what customers are going to buy before they actually do so.

“Contrary to what we like to believe today, humans quite easily fall into obeying others, and any sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from God. People won’t necessarily mind taking their marching orders from some vast oracular computer.”

In addition to our physical bodies, there exists—somewhere in the ether—a second self that is purely informational and immaterial, a data set of our clicks, purchases, and likes that lingers not in some transcendent nirvana but rather in the shadowy dossiers of third-party aggregators... (cont)