Sure, but Abigail wasn’t really advocating against transhumanism or technology generally… The critique of that video is that technology isn’t really the focus of the disagreement between transhuminism and anti-transhumanism, but rather the ‘dressing’ around a deeper phenomenological belief (for transhumanists it’s the belief that technology will save us from the inequity and suffering created under capitalism, and for anti-transhumanists it’s the belief that technology and progress will subvert the ‘natural’ order of things and we must reject it in favor of tradition). Both arguments distract from what is arguably the more pressing issue - namely that technology does nothing to correct the contradictions of capital and it may even work to accelerate its collapse.
I would really enjoy a discussion about how AI might shape our experience as humans - and how that might be good or bad depending - but instead we’re stuck in this other conversation about how AI might save us from the toils of labor (despite centuries of technological progress having never brought us any closer to liberation) vs how it might be a Trojan horse and we need to return to a pre-AI existence.
It might be more productive for you to argue the case for why the effects or harm you’re pointing to are somehow ‘inherent’ to AI itself and not symptoms of capitalism exacerbated by AI.
Sure, but Abigail wasn’t really advocating against transhumanism or technology generally… The critique of that video is that technology isn’t really the focus of the disagreement between transhuminism and anti-transhumanism, but rather the ‘dressing’ around a deeper phenomenological belief (for transhumanists it’s the belief that technology will save us from the inequity and suffering created under capitalism, and for anti-transhumanists it’s the belief that technology and progress will subvert the ‘natural’ order of things and we must reject it in favor of tradition). Both arguments distract from what is arguably the more pressing issue - namely that technology does nothing to correct the contradictions of capital and it may even work to accelerate its collapse.
I would really enjoy a discussion about how AI might shape our experience as humans - and how that might be good or bad depending - but instead we’re stuck in this other conversation about how AI might save us from the toils of labor (despite centuries of technological progress having never brought us any closer to liberation) vs how it might be a Trojan horse and we need to return to a pre-AI existence.
It might be more productive for you to argue the case for why the effects or harm you’re pointing to are somehow ‘inherent’ to AI itself and not symptoms of capitalism exacerbated by AI.