Exposes deeply flawed logic

This book exposes the mindset of the bubble that is techno-utopians and AI evangalism.

I work in Tech. I studied electrical engineering, with a masters in microchip design. I use AI as a tool in my workflow every single day, and have even train my own machine learning models. I now develop video games because it's meaningful to me - and to others. I now develop video games because it's meaningful to me, and to others.

The tech bros interviewed and discussed in this series speak about AI like it's religion. Their ideas are chock-full of platitudes and black and white thinking - incredibly frustrating to hear, but important to understand. I perceive a lot of commonality in their speech with cult-like thinking. They don't seem to challenge each other's ideas - rather, follow and build upon the most extreme of ideas. Consider too the conflicts of interest that exist here - tech bros incentivized by money, power, recognition, intellectual curiosity, what have you - the root of which is private interests. Yet they do not demonstrate any acknowledgment or appreciation of these conflicts of interest.

Nothing in this world is as simple as "the future will be a dystopic nightmare" or "the future will be a utopia" in a world as complex as our own, driven by complexities of human relationships, societal structures, uncertainties due to individual motivations and influence, etc.. This begs the question that if these people are truly brilliant, are they really being genuinely honest, or have they fully subscribed (consciously or not) to an ideology or narrative so alluring that it subverts critical thinking?

I don't want to frame all of these tech bro folks as enemies or intrinsically/consciously nefarious. But groupthink and powerful ideas like this can be insidious. Bright minds can be captured by ideology when the authors of those ideas are intelligent, persuasive, and skilled storytellers, especially from those who have mastered the art of subtlety (consider Sam Altman). That said, I have my doubts about the intellect of some of these AI evangalists and doomers. I think that's important to question as the perception of can intelligence and power can itself be subversive. Technical problems often have deterministic answers, but social ones do not. Yet, what I'm seeing is todd these tech Bros are applying that kind of deterministic thinking. Do you see the irony in this as I do?

The messages I took away from this work are concerning as hell, but super important to ponder. Only with understanding can we confront reality as it is! Is that not what we value most in democracy? The more idealistic or dysttopic folks will tell you "to hell with democracy", because they have determined that it is irrelevant - it's disappearance inevitable. But that's a decision that they have made, not us. Nothing is black/white, and nothing is truly inevitable - we get to decide where we direct the future.

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