Funny thing is that in more than one of the iron man movies the suits end up being bad robots. Even the ai iron man made shows up to ruin the day in the avengers movie. So it’s a little in the nose that they’d try to pitch it this way.
They would love for this to be true. Wishful thinking is a powerful thing. Harder to face the culpability and upcoming tragedy for the other outcome. Denial is the first stage of grief after all.
Wasn't Facebook and social media supposed to be a tool for social superpowers? Those optimistic days are long gone, obviously flawed, and people probably forget they were acting just as hopeful as AI now. Instead people in general are lonelier and more depressed than ever, but Facebook is really good at making $$$, not so much improving peoples' social lives. Best not look at how many university students are depressed...
I'm old enough to remember when Twitter was new, and for a moment it felt like the old utopian promise of the Internet finally fulfilled: ordinary people would be able to talk, one-on-one and unmediated, with other ordinary people across the world, and in the process we'd find out that we're all more similar than different and mainly want the same things out of life, leading to a new era of peace and empathy.
Was Twitter ever really meant for that? As far as I can tell the primary purpose of twitter is moderated access to celebrities with the utopian ideas about communication just used to sell it.
I believe the opposite happened. People found out that there are huge groups of people with wildly differing views on morality from them and that just encouraged more hate. I genuinely think old school facebook where people only interacted with their own private friend circles is better.
Broadcast networks like Twitter only make sense for influencers, celebrities and people building a brand. They're a net negative for literally anyone else.
| old school facebook where people only interacted with their own private friend circles is better.
100% agree but crazy that option doesn't exist anymore.
