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1 分•作者: silexia•7 个月前
我们都看过那么多电视剧和电影，读过那么多书，以至于我们看待现实生活就像看故事书一样。主角总是在最后获胜。
这些故事很有趣，但却极具误导性。我们基本上通过娱乐活动给自己洗脑，让我们认为生活是一个叙事。
在现实生活中，好人往往不会获胜。坏人很多时候也得不到他们应有的报应。通常也不会有出人意料的情节转折来拯救我们。
我们是一个玩弄着以指数级速度在我们周围发展起来的科技的物种。由于自动化、离岸外包和人工智能而导致的白领衰退，可能会从根本上改变许多人习以为常的生活。人工智能可能会远远超越人类智能，并直接将我们消灭。或者，一小撮恐怖分子可能会使用一种无法治愈的基因改造疾病来消灭我们所有人。
我认为，我们的祖先没有像我们今天这样丰富的娱乐活动，对世界的看法更加现实。阅读非常古老的书籍对于尝试重新连接现实世界非常有帮助。
我们就像在炸弹工厂里玩火柴的孩子。
我对此并没有真正的解决方案。我没有电视，但我仍然读很多小说。并且在 Facebook 和新闻网站上浪费时间。
我很难想象一个没有我的世界，尽管这已经存在了数千年。
我们是接受泰德·邦迪的观点，即技术进步对我们的物种具有破坏性？还是拥抱山姆·奥特曼的乌托邦，这个乌托邦据称将随着通用人工智能的到来而实现？或者，我们会像《超级智能》的作者所建议的那样，被彻底消灭？或者，也许这一切都不会发生。
我们能摆脱那些不断吸引我们注意力的虚构故事吗？电视剧、电影、小说、社交媒体和在线视频、新闻网站等等？这样做会有好处吗？
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We all have watched so many TV shows and movies, and read so many books, that we look at real life like it is a storybook. The main character always wins in the end.<p>These stories are fun, but wildly misleading. We have basically brainwashed ourselves through our entertainment into thinking life is a narrative.<p>In real life, the good guys often do not win. The bad guys many times never get what they deserve. There usually are no surprise plot twists that will save us.<p>We are a species playing with technology that has developed at an exponential rate around us. The white collar recession developing now as a result of automation, off shoring, and AI could radically change the life many are used to. Artificial intelligence could far exceed human intelligence and simply wipe us out. Or a small terrorist group could use a genetically altered disease that is incurable to wipe us all out.<p>I think our ancestors who did not have all the entertainment we have today had a more realistic view of the world. Reading very old books is quite helpful to try to reconnect to reality.<p>We are like children playing with matches in a bomb factory.<p>I don’t really have solutions to this. I don’t own a tv, but I still read a lot of fiction. And waste time on Facebook and news websites.<p>I have a hard time envisioning a world without me, although that has been the default state of nature for thousands of years.<p>Do we accept Ted Bundy’s proposition that technology advancement is destructive toward our species? Or do we embrace Sam Altman’s utopia that supposedly will arrive with general artificial intelligence? Or will we simply be wiped out as the author of Superintelligence suggests? Or maybe none of this will occur.<p>Can we cut ourselves off from the artificial stories that continually draw our attention? TV shows, movies, fiction books, social media and online video, news websites, etc? Would doing so be beneficial?