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Decisions. Who makes them? Who is trying to use machines to make decisions? And why?
Well, right now in our society, money, rather, those who have it, make the decisions.
True, people have a tendency to let machines do the work and make the decisions for them.
But to the degree that people die as a result of trusting machines judgements depends on what we dial into the machine. At some point, by its very nature, allowing machines to make decisions, no matter what we dial into them to give them parameters for their decisions, will be insufficient. But what defines sufficient? For all practical purposes, using machines and computation to make decisions is fine – what matters is the laws that the decision making process has to follow. As of now, the machines are instructed to maximize profits of the corporation. Whether a machine, or a person, the problem in this scenario is the instruction that the machine/person receives.
By understanding statistics for what they are, we can avoid using national-sized data to determine what to do in our backyard. We would know that the specifics of our backyard's situation, our communities situation, are far more important than how other communities and backyards that share few of the same aspects as ours fare or operate. So now the data that we work with is more specific and thus personalized and personal. By decentralizing, we give less power to numbers and more to our neighbors and ourselves.
Who fights this inclination everywhere is shows up? The ruling class. For them, here must be a god that they can manipulate and control that they use to deflect responsibility for the massive inequality that the perpetuate and leech off of. 'The Market,' or 'The Numbers,' or 'Science,' are popular ones. Science has been biased in the past, due to the influence of money and governmental power – people are rightly suspicious when they hear claims that have huge ramifications being espoused by the government approved scientific bodies. Allowing people to have real political power over their communities, rather than being under the dictatorship of those who control the centralized government/corporate alliance that uses abstract information to legitimize continued inequality, is not what the ruling class wants to do. The issue is who dials the rules or decision making into the machine, people who care about other people, the earth and humanity, or the minority of people who care only for themselves and inequality? That is the question that matters. ……..
As for warfare, the reason we do not have drones that don't need a human being to decide whether or not to kill someone flying around is that war is legitimized by those who are willing to fight them. Without people willing to take the life of another, war loses legitimacy. It becomes impersonal, and one quickly begins to feel that if they have the power to kill without worry of being killed, then they have no right to kill. That if they have the power to do this, they must be able to achieve their aims without killing. As a farmer i know says, "If you have to kill an animal on your property messing things up, it out-smarted you." As long as someone is paying for, and taking responsibility for the killing, it remains human and personal and dignified. As soon machines are doing it, we become disgusted by it seeing only human beings being killed, their humanity starkly obvious against the backdrop of their killer. Someone needs to say "yes I killed them" in order for others to see that pride, and be influenced by it, and be effected by group think enough to support a war based on lies and continued oppression of the many by the tiny few. Without someone pulling the trigger, the elite's wars become more obviously inhumane.
Thanks for reading!
I'm going to watch Pee Wee Herman now….
Yah.. ok. This is why you shouldn't buy into someone's opinion just because they teach or have a degree
Computer chips really are a million times faster than 20 years ago for the same price. The progress in hardware really has been exponential. But MS Word still takes forever to load, and spellcheck still sucks. The progress in software has been linear. Definitely progress, even rapid progress, but I don't think Kurzweil is going to be uploaded any time soon.