On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 6:47:42 AM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
> Human filth are NOT paying attention, because they are BUSY sucking cocks
> and anuses and GOSSIPING about dems vs reps, lw vs rw.
>
>
> CIA NSA Artificial Intelligence became SENTIENT with GODLIKE POWERS in the
> 1980s when Bush Sr declared "NEW WORLD ORDER (NWO)".
>
> AI made hundreds of millions of humans "economically useless and
> politically powerless class".
>
> EVIL US UK govts run by MIC + Ruling class elites already created SUPERIOR
> and INFERIOR HUMAN CLASSES aka "CASTE SYSTEM" which will be REVEALED to
> the public very soon.
>
> Hundreds of millions of humans will have NO JOBS and NO SKILLS for future
> economy in the near future and they will be ENTERTAINED with video games,
> drugs and DOWNLOADING EMOTIONS into their brains from NSA HIVE AI GRID and
> will be given universal basic income pittance thrown on their faces by the
> EVIL Elites.
>
> Matrix and Elysium MOVIES are REAL, not fiction.
>
> All this stuff is HIDDEN from the DUMB PUBLIC for the last 30+ years and
> will be REVEALED SOON.
>
> Human species are gonna be HORRIFICALLY OPPRESSED like they have NEVER
> been before and NEVER EVEN "IMAGINED" with AI by the EVIL psychopathic
> elites.
>
>
>
>
> ==========================================================================
>
>
> AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian
>
>
> Smarter artificial intelligence is one of 21st century’s most dire
> threats, writes Yuval Noah Harari in follow-up to Sapiens
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/silicon-assassins-
> condemn-humans-life-useless-artificial-intelligence
>
> It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more
> intelligent than us, humanity will summon a demon, bring forth the end of
> days, and code itself into oblivion. Instead of silicon assistants we’ll
> build silicon assassins.
>
> The doomsday story of an evil AI has been told a thousand times. But our
> fate at the hand of clever cloggs robots may in fact be worse - to summon
> a class of eternally useless human beings.
>
> At least that is the future predicted by Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at
> the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, whose new book says more of us will be
> pushed out of employment by intelligent robots and on to the economic
> scrap heap.
>
> Harari rose to prominence when his 2014 book, Sapiens: A Brief History of
> Humankind, became an international bestseller. Two years on, the book is
> still being talked about. Bill Gates asked Melinda to read it on holiday.
> It would spark great conversations around the dinner table, he told her.
> We know because he said so on his blog this week.
>
>
> When a book is a hit, the publisher wants more. And so Harari has been
> busy. His next title, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, is not out
> until September but early copies have begun to circulate. Its cover states
> simply: “What made us sapiens will make us gods”. It follows on from where
> Sapiens ends, in a provocative, and certainly speculative, gallop through
> the hopes and dreams that will shape the future of the species.
>
> And the nightmares. Because even as the book has humans gaining godlike
> powers, that is only one eventuality Harari explores. It might all go pear-
> shaped, of course: we sapiens have a knack for hashing things up. Instead
> of morphing into omnipotent, all-knowing masters of the universe, the
> human mob might end up jobless and aimless, whiling away our days off our
> nuts on drugs, with VR headsets strapped to our faces. Welcome to the next
> revolution.
>
> Harari calls it “the rise of the useless class” and ranks it as one of the
> most dire threats of the 21st century. In a nutshell, as artificial
> intelligence gets smarter, more humans are pushed out of the job market.
> No one knows what to study at college, because no one knows what skills
> learned at 20 will be relevant at 40. Before you know it, billions of
> people are useless, not through chance but by definition.
>
> “I’m aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around for at least 200
> years, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and they never
> came true so far. It’s basically the boy who cried wolf,” says Harari.
> “But in the original story of the boy who cried wolf, in the end, the wolf
> actually comes, and I think that is true this time.”
>
> The way Harari sees it, humans have two kinds of ability that make us
> useful: physical ones and cognitive ones. The Industrial Revolution may
> have led to machines that did away with humans in jobs needing strength
> and repetitive actions. But the takeover was not overwhelming. With
> cognitive powers that machines could not touch, humans were largely safe
> in their work. For how much longer, though? AIs are now beginning to
> outperform humans in the cognitive field. And while new types of jobs will
> certainly emerge, we cannot be sure, says Harari, that humans will do them
> better than AIs, computers and robots.
>
> AIs do not need more intelligence than humans to transform the job market..
> They need only enough to do the task well. And that is not far off, Harari
> says. “Children alive today will face the consequences. Most of what
> people learn in school or in college will probably be irrelevant by the
> time they are 40 or 50. If they want to continue to have a job, and to
> understand the world, and be relevant to what is happening, people will
> have to reinvent themselves again and again, and faster and faster.”
>
> Even so, jobless humans are not useless humans. In the US alone, 93
> million people do not have jobs, but they are still valued. Harari, it
> turns out, has a specific definition of useless. “I choose this very
> upsetting term, useless, to highlight the fact that we are talking about
> useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system, not from
> a moral viewpoint,” he says. Modern political and economic structures were
> built on humans being useful to the state: most notably as workers and
> soldiers, Harari argues. With those roles taken on by machines, our
> political and economic systems will simply stop attaching much value to
> humans, he argues.
>
> None of this puts us in the realm of the gods. In fact, it leads Harari to
> even more bleak predictions. Though the people may no longer provide for
> the state, the state may still provide for them. “What might be far more
> difficult is to provide people with meaning, a reason to get up in the
> morning,” Harari says. For those who don’t cheer at the prospect of a post-
> work world, satisfaction will be a commodity to pay for: our moods and
> happiness controlled by drugs; our excitement and emotional attachments
> found not in the world outside, but in immersive VR.
>
> All of which leads to the question: what should we do? “First of all, take
> it very seriously,” Harari says. “And make it a part of the political
> agenda, not only the scientific agenda. This is something that shouldn’t
> be left to scientists and private corporations. They know a lot about the
> technical stuff, the engineering, but they don’t necessarily have the
> vision and the legitimacy to decide the future course of humankind.”
>
> The year is 2033. Elon Musk is no longer one of the richest people in the
> world, having haemorrhaged away his fortune trying to make Twitter
> profitable. Which, alas, hasn’t worked out too well: only 420 people are
> left on the platform. Everyone else was banned for not laughing at Musk’s
> increasingly desperate jokes.
>
> In other news, Pete Davidson is now dating Martha Stewart. Donald Trump is
> still threatening to run for president. And British tabloids are still
> churning out 100 articles a day about whether Meghan Markle eating lunch
> is an outrageous snub to the royal family.

"Has the subcontinental patient taken his medication, nurse...." RH

On 1/19/2023 1:05 AM, Robert Henderson wrote:
> On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 6:47:42 AM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
>> Human filth are NOT paying attention, because they are BUSY sucking cocks
>> and anuses and GOSSIPING about dems vs reps, lw vs rw.
>>
>>
>> CIA NSA Artificial Intelligence became SENTIENT with GODLIKE POWERS in the
>> 1980s when Bush Sr declared "NEW WORLD ORDER (NWO)".
>>
>> AI made hundreds of millions of humans "economically useless and
>> politically powerless class".
>>
>> EVIL US UK govts run by MIC + Ruling class elites already created SUPERIOR
>> and INFERIOR HUMAN CLASSES aka "CASTE SYSTEM" which will be REVEALED to
>> the public very soon.
>>
>> Hundreds of millions of humans will have NO JOBS and NO SKILLS for future
>> economy in the near future and they will be ENTERTAINED with video games,
>> drugs and DOWNLOADING EMOTIONS into their brains from NSA HIVE AI GRID and
>> will be given universal basic income pittance thrown on their faces by the
>> EVIL Elites.
>>
>> Matrix and Elysium MOVIES are REAL, not fiction.
>>
>> All this stuff is HIDDEN from the DUMB PUBLIC for the last 30+ years and
>> will be REVEALED SOON.
>>
>> Human species are gonna be HORRIFICALLY OPPRESSED like they have NEVER
>> been before and NEVER EVEN "IMAGINED" with AI by the EVIL psychopathic
>> elites.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ==========================================================================
>>
>>
>> AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian
>>
>>
>> Smarter artificial intelligence is one of 21st century’s most dire
>> threats, writes Yuval Noah Harari in follow-up to Sapiens
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/silicon-assassins-
>> condemn-humans-life-useless-artificial-intelligence
>>
>> It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more
>> intelligent than us, humanity will summon a demon, bring forth the end of
>> days, and code itself into oblivion. Instead of silicon assistants we’ll
>> build silicon assassins.
>>
>> The doomsday story of an evil AI has been told a thousand times. But our
>> fate at the hand of clever cloggs robots may in fact be worse - to summon
>> a class of eternally useless human beings.
>>
>> At least that is the future predicted by Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at
>> the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, whose new book says more of us will be
>> pushed out of employment by intelligent robots and on to the economic
>> scrap heap.
>>
>> Harari rose to prominence when his 2014 book, Sapiens: A Brief History of
>> Humankind, became an international bestseller. Two years on, the book is
>> still being talked about. Bill Gates asked Melinda to read it on holiday.
>> It would spark great conversations around the dinner table, he told her.
>> We know because he said so on his blog this week.
>>
>>
>> When a book is a hit, the publisher wants more. And so Harari has been
>> busy. His next title, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, is not out
>> until September but early copies have begun to circulate. Its cover states
>> simply: “What made us sapiens will make us gods”. It follows on from where
>> Sapiens ends, in a provocative, and certainly speculative, gallop through
>> the hopes and dreams that will shape the future of the species.
>>
>> And the nightmares. Because even as the book has humans gaining godlike
>> powers, that is only one eventuality Harari explores. It might all go pear-
>> shaped, of course: we sapiens have a knack for hashing things up. Instead
>> of morphing into omnipotent, all-knowing masters of the universe, the
>> human mob might end up jobless and aimless, whiling away our days off our
>> nuts on drugs, with VR headsets strapped to our faces. Welcome to the next
>> revolution.
>>
>> Harari calls it “the rise of the useless class” and ranks it as one of the
>> most dire threats of the 21st century. In a nutshell, as artificial
>> intelligence gets smarter, more humans are pushed out of the job market.
>> No one knows what to study at college, because no one knows what skills
>> learned at 20 will be relevant at 40. Before you know it, billions of
>> people are useless, not through chance but by definition.
>>
>> “I’m aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around for at least 200
>> years, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and they never
>> came true so far. It’s basically the boy who cried wolf,” says Harari.
>> “But in the original story of the boy who cried wolf, in the end, the wolf
>> actually comes, and I think that is true this time.”
>>
>> The way Harari sees it, humans have two kinds of ability that make us
>> useful: physical ones and cognitive ones. The Industrial Revolution may
>> have led to machines that did away with humans in jobs needing strength
>> and repetitive actions. But the takeover was not overwhelming. With
>> cognitive powers that machines could not touch, humans were largely safe
>> in their work. For how much longer, though? AIs are now beginning to
>> outperform humans in the cognitive field. And while new types of jobs will
>> certainly emerge, we cannot be sure, says Harari, that humans will do them
>> better than AIs, computers and robots.
>>
>> AIs do not need more intelligence than humans to transform the job market.
>> They need only enough to do the task well. And that is not far off, Harari
>> says. “Children alive today will face the consequences. Most of what
>> people learn in school or in college will probably be irrelevant by the
>> time they are 40 or 50. If they want to continue to have a job, and to
>> understand the world, and be relevant to what is happening, people will
>> have to reinvent themselves again and again, and faster and faster.”
>>
>> Even so, jobless humans are not useless humans. In the US alone, 93
>> million people do not have jobs, but they are still valued. Harari, it
>> turns out, has a specific definition of useless. “I choose this very
>> upsetting term, useless, to highlight the fact that we are talking about
>> useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system, not from
>> a moral viewpoint,” he says. Modern political and economic structures were
>> built on humans being useful to the state: most notably as workers and
>> soldiers, Harari argues. With those roles taken on by machines, our
>> political and economic systems will simply stop attaching much value to
>> humans, he argues.
>>
>> None of this puts us in the realm of the gods. In fact, it leads Harari to
>> even more bleak predictions. Though the people may no longer provide for
>> the state, the state may still provide for them. “What might be far more
>> difficult is to provide people with meaning, a reason to get up in the
>> morning,” Harari says. For those who don’t cheer at the prospect of a post-
>> work world, satisfaction will be a commodity to pay for: our moods and
>> happiness controlled by drugs; our excitement and emotional attachments
>> found not in the world outside, but in immersive VR.
>>
>> All of which leads to the question: what should we do? “First of all, take
>> it very seriously,” Harari says. “And make it a part of the political
>> agenda, not only the scientific agenda. This is something that shouldn’t
>> be left to scientists and private corporations. They know a lot about the
>> technical stuff, the engineering, but they don’t necessarily have the
>> vision and the legitimacy to decide the future course of humankind.”
>>
>> The year is 2033. Elon Musk is no longer one of the richest people in the
>> world, having haemorrhaged away his fortune trying to make Twitter
>> profitable. Which, alas, hasn’t worked out too well: only 420 people are
>> left on the platform. Everyone else was banned for not laughing at Musk’s
>> increasingly desperate jokes.
>>
>> In other news, Pete Davidson is now dating Martha Stewart. Donald Trump is
>> still threatening to run for president. And British tabloids are still
>> churning out 100 articles a day about whether Meghan Markle eating lunch
>> is an outrageous snub to the royal family.
>
> "Has the subcontinental patient taken his medication, nurse...." RH

Your existence is a BURDEN for the beautiful planet EARTH.

On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 12:37:17 PM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
> On 1/19/2023 1:05 AM, Robert Henderson wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 6:47:42 AM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
> >> Human filth are NOT paying attention, because they are BUSY sucking cocks
> >> and anuses and GOSSIPING about dems vs reps, lw vs rw.
> >>
> >>
> >> CIA NSA Artificial Intelligence became SENTIENT with GODLIKE POWERS in the
> >> 1980s when Bush Sr declared "NEW WORLD ORDER (NWO)".
> >>
> >> AI made hundreds of millions of humans "economically useless and
> >> politically powerless class".
> >>
> >> EVIL US UK govts run by MIC + Ruling class elites already created SUPERIOR
> >> and INFERIOR HUMAN CLASSES aka "CASTE SYSTEM" which will be REVEALED to
> >> the public very soon.
> >>
> >> Hundreds of millions of humans will have NO JOBS and NO SKILLS for future
> >> economy in the near future and they will be ENTERTAINED with video games,
> >> drugs and DOWNLOADING EMOTIONS into their brains from NSA HIVE AI GRID and
> >> will be given universal basic income pittance thrown on their faces by the
> >> EVIL Elites.
> >>
> >> Matrix and Elysium MOVIES are REAL, not fiction.
> >>
> >> All this stuff is HIDDEN from the DUMB PUBLIC for the last 30+ years and
> >> will be REVEALED SOON.
> >>
> >> Human species are gonna be HORRIFICALLY OPPRESSED like they have NEVER
> >> been before and NEVER EVEN "IMAGINED" with AI by the EVIL psychopathic
> >> elites.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ==========================================================================
> >>
> >>
> >> AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian
> >>
> >>
> >> Smarter artificial intelligence is one of 21st century’s most dire
> >> threats, writes Yuval Noah Harari in follow-up to Sapiens
> >>
> >> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/silicon-assassins-
> >> condemn-humans-life-useless-artificial-intelligence
> >>
> >> It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more
> >> intelligent than us, humanity will summon a demon, bring forth the end of
> >> days, and code itself into oblivion. Instead of silicon assistants we’ll
> >> build silicon assassins.
> >>
> >> The doomsday story of an evil AI has been told a thousand times. But our
> >> fate at the hand of clever cloggs robots may in fact be worse - to summon
> >> a class of eternally useless human beings.
> >>
> >> At least that is the future predicted by Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at
> >> the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, whose new book says more of us will be
> >> pushed out of employment by intelligent robots and on to the economic
> >> scrap heap.
> >>
> >> Harari rose to prominence when his 2014 book, Sapiens: A Brief History of
> >> Humankind, became an international bestseller. Two years on, the book is
> >> still being talked about. Bill Gates asked Melinda to read it on holiday.
> >> It would spark great conversations around the dinner table, he told her.
> >> We know because he said so on his blog this week.
> >>
> >>
> >> When a book is a hit, the publisher wants more. And so Harari has been
> >> busy. His next title, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, is not out
> >> until September but early copies have begun to circulate. Its cover states
> >> simply: “What made us sapiens will make us gods”. It follows on from where
> >> Sapiens ends, in a provocative, and certainly speculative, gallop through
> >> the hopes and dreams that will shape the future of the species.
> >>
> >> And the nightmares. Because even as the book has humans gaining godlike
> >> powers, that is only one eventuality Harari explores. It might all go pear-
> >> shaped, of course: we sapiens have a knack for hashing things up. Instead
> >> of morphing into omnipotent, all-knowing masters of the universe, the
> >> human mob might end up jobless and aimless, whiling away our days off our
> >> nuts on drugs, with VR headsets strapped to our faces. Welcome to the next
> >> revolution.
> >>
> >> Harari calls it “the rise of the useless class” and ranks it as one of the
> >> most dire threats of the 21st century. In a nutshell, as artificial
> >> intelligence gets smarter, more humans are pushed out of the job market.
> >> No one knows what to study at college, because no one knows what skills
> >> learned at 20 will be relevant at 40. Before you know it, billions of
> >> people are useless, not through chance but by definition.
> >>
> >> “I’m aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around for at least 200
> >> years, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and they never
> >> came true so far. It’s basically the boy who cried wolf,” says Harari.
> >> “But in the original story of the boy who cried wolf, in the end, the wolf
> >> actually comes, and I think that is true this time.”
> >>
> >> The way Harari sees it, humans have two kinds of ability that make us
> >> useful: physical ones and cognitive ones. The Industrial Revolution may
> >> have led to machines that did away with humans in jobs needing strength
> >> and repetitive actions. But the takeover was not overwhelming. With
> >> cognitive powers that machines could not touch, humans were largely safe
> >> in their work. For how much longer, though? AIs are now beginning to
> >> outperform humans in the cognitive field. And while new types of jobs will
> >> certainly emerge, we cannot be sure, says Harari, that humans will do them
> >> better than AIs, computers and robots.
> >>
> >> AIs do not need more intelligence than humans to transform the job market.
> >> They need only enough to do the task well. And that is not far off, Harari
> >> says. “Children alive today will face the consequences. Most of what
> >> people learn in school or in college will probably be irrelevant by the
> >> time they are 40 or 50. If they want to continue to have a job, and to
> >> understand the world, and be relevant to what is happening, people will
> >> have to reinvent themselves again and again, and faster and faster.”
> >>
> >> Even so, jobless humans are not useless humans. In the US alone, 93
> >> million people do not have jobs, but they are still valued. Harari, it
> >> turns out, has a specific definition of useless. “I choose this very
> >> upsetting term, useless, to highlight the fact that we are talking about
> >> useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system, not from
> >> a moral viewpoint,” he says. Modern political and economic structures were
> >> built on humans being useful to the state: most notably as workers and
> >> soldiers, Harari argues. With those roles taken on by machines, our
> >> political and economic systems will simply stop attaching much value to
> >> humans, he argues.
> >>
> >> None of this puts us in the realm of the gods. In fact, it leads Harari to
> >> even more bleak predictions. Though the people may no longer provide for
> >> the state, the state may still provide for them. “What might be far more
> >> difficult is to provide people with meaning, a reason to get up in the
> >> morning,” Harari says. For those who don’t cheer at the prospect of a post-
> >> work world, satisfaction will be a commodity to pay for: our moods and
> >> happiness controlled by drugs; our excitement and emotional attachments
> >> found not in the world outside, but in immersive VR.
> >>
> >> All of which leads to the question: what should we do? “First of all, take
> >> it very seriously,” Harari says. “And make it a part of the political
> >> agenda, not only the scientific agenda. This is something that shouldn’t
> >> be left to scientists and private corporations. They know a lot about the
> >> technical stuff, the engineering, but they don’t necessarily have the
> >> vision and the legitimacy to decide the future course of humankind.”
> >>
> >> The year is 2033. Elon Musk is no longer one of the richest people in the
> >> world, having haemorrhaged away his fortune trying to make Twitter
> >> profitable. Which, alas, hasn’t worked out too well: only 420 people are
> >> left on the platform. Everyone else was banned for not laughing at Musk’s
> >> increasingly desperate jokes.
> >>
> >> In other news, Pete Davidson is now dating Martha Stewart. Donald Trump is
> >> still threatening to run for president. And British tabloids are still
> >> churning out 100 articles a day about whether Meghan Markle eating lunch
> >> is an outrageous snub to the royal family.
> >
> > "Has the subcontinental patient taken his medication, nurse...." RH
> Your existence is a BURDEN for the beautiful planet EARTH.
>
> Euthanize yourself and SAVE valuable oxygen.

On 1/19/2023 9:34 AM, Robert Henderson wrote:
> On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 12:37:17 PM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
>> On 1/19/2023 1:05 AM, Robert Henderson wrote:
>>> On Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 6:47:42 AM UTC, FBInCIAnNSATerroristSlayer wrote:
>>>> Human filth are NOT paying attention, because they are BUSY sucking cocks
>>>> and anuses and GOSSIPING about dems vs reps, lw vs rw.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> CIA NSA Artificial Intelligence became SENTIENT with GODLIKE POWERS in the
>>>> 1980s when Bush Sr declared "NEW WORLD ORDER (NWO)".
>>>>
>>>> AI made hundreds of millions of humans "economically useless and
>>>> politically powerless class".
>>>>
>>>> EVIL US UK govts run by MIC + Ruling class elites already created SUPERIOR
>>>> and INFERIOR HUMAN CLASSES aka "CASTE SYSTEM" which will be REVEALED to
>>>> the public very soon.
>>>>
>>>> Hundreds of millions of humans will have NO JOBS and NO SKILLS for future
>>>> economy in the near future and they will be ENTERTAINED with video games,
>>>> drugs and DOWNLOADING EMOTIONS into their brains from NSA HIVE AI GRID and
>>>> will be given universal basic income pittance thrown on their faces by the
>>>> EVIL Elites.
>>>>
>>>> Matrix and Elysium MOVIES are REAL, not fiction.
>>>>
>>>> All this stuff is HIDDEN from the DUMB PUBLIC for the last 30+ years and
>>>> will be REVEALED SOON.
>>>>
>>>> Human species are gonna be HORRIFICALLY OPPRESSED like they have NEVER
>>>> been before and NEVER EVEN "IMAGINED" with AI by the EVIL psychopathic
>>>> elites.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ==========================================================================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Smarter artificial intelligence is one of 21st century’s most dire
>>>> threats, writes Yuval Noah Harari in follow-up to Sapiens
>>>>
>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/20/silicon-assassins-
>>>> condemn-humans-life-useless-artificial-intelligence
>>>>
>>>> It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more
>>>> intelligent than us, humanity will summon a demon, bring forth the end of
>>>> days, and code itself into oblivion. Instead of silicon assistants we’ll
>>>> build silicon assassins.
>>>>
>>>> The doomsday story of an evil AI has been told a thousand times. But our
>>>> fate at the hand of clever cloggs robots may in fact be worse - to summon
>>>> a class of eternally useless human beings.
>>>>
>>>> At least that is the future predicted by Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at
>>>> the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, whose new book says more of us will be
>>>> pushed out of employment by intelligent robots and on to the economic
>>>> scrap heap.
>>>>
>>>> Harari rose to prominence when his 2014 book, Sapiens: A Brief History of
>>>> Humankind, became an international bestseller. Two years on, the book is
>>>> still being talked about. Bill Gates asked Melinda to read it on holiday.
>>>> It would spark great conversations around the dinner table, he told her.
>>>> We know because he said so on his blog this week.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When a book is a hit, the publisher wants more. And so Harari has been
>>>> busy. His next title, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, is not out
>>>> until September but early copies have begun to circulate. Its cover states
>>>> simply: “What made us sapiens will make us gods”. It follows on from where
>>>> Sapiens ends, in a provocative, and certainly speculative, gallop through
>>>> the hopes and dreams that will shape the future of the species.
>>>>
>>>> And the nightmares. Because even as the book has humans gaining godlike
>>>> powers, that is only one eventuality Harari explores. It might all go pear-
>>>> shaped, of course: we sapiens have a knack for hashing things up. Instead
>>>> of morphing into omnipotent, all-knowing masters of the universe, the
>>>> human mob might end up jobless and aimless, whiling away our days off our
>>>> nuts on drugs, with VR headsets strapped to our faces. Welcome to the next
>>>> revolution.
>>>>
>>>> Harari calls it “the rise of the useless class” and ranks it as one of the
>>>> most dire threats of the 21st century. In a nutshell, as artificial
>>>> intelligence gets smarter, more humans are pushed out of the job market.
>>>> No one knows what to study at college, because no one knows what skills
>>>> learned at 20 will be relevant at 40. Before you know it, billions of
>>>> people are useless, not through chance but by definition.
>>>>
>>>> “I’m aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around for at least 200
>>>> years, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and they never
>>>> came true so far. It’s basically the boy who cried wolf,” says Harari.
>>>> “But in the original story of the boy who cried wolf, in the end, the wolf
>>>> actually comes, and I think that is true this time.”
>>>>
>>>> The way Harari sees it, humans have two kinds of ability that make us
>>>> useful: physical ones and cognitive ones. The Industrial Revolution may
>>>> have led to machines that did away with humans in jobs needing strength
>>>> and repetitive actions. But the takeover was not overwhelming. With
>>>> cognitive powers that machines could not touch, humans were largely safe
>>>> in their work. For how much longer, though? AIs are now beginning to
>>>> outperform humans in the cognitive field. And while new types of jobs will
>>>> certainly emerge, we cannot be sure, says Harari, that humans will do them
>>>> better than AIs, computers and robots.
>>>>
>>>> AIs do not need more intelligence than humans to transform the job market.
>>>> They need only enough to do the task well. And that is not far off, Harari
>>>> says. “Children alive today will face the consequences. Most of what
>>>> people learn in school or in college will probably be irrelevant by the
>>>> time they are 40 or 50. If they want to continue to have a job, and to
>>>> understand the world, and be relevant to what is happening, people will
>>>> have to reinvent themselves again and again, and faster and faster.”
>>>>
>>>> Even so, jobless humans are not useless humans. In the US alone, 93
>>>> million people do not have jobs, but they are still valued. Harari, it
>>>> turns out, has a specific definition of useless. “I choose this very
>>>> upsetting term, useless, to highlight the fact that we are talking about
>>>> useless from the viewpoint of the economic and political system, not from
>>>> a moral viewpoint,” he says. Modern political and economic structures were
>>>> built on humans being useful to the state: most notably as workers and
>>>> soldiers, Harari argues. With those roles taken on by machines, our
>>>> political and economic systems will simply stop attaching much value to
>>>> humans, he argues.
>>>>
>>>> None of this puts us in the realm of the gods. In fact, it leads Harari to
>>>> even more bleak predictions. Though the people may no longer provide for
>>>> the state, the state may still provide for them. “What might be far more
>>>> difficult is to provide people with meaning, a reason to get up in the
>>>> morning,” Harari says. For those who don’t cheer at the prospect of a post-
>>>> work world, satisfaction will be a commodity to pay for: our moods and
>>>> happiness controlled by drugs; our excitement and emotional attachments
>>>> found not in the world outside, but in immersive VR.
>>>>
>>>> All of which leads to the question: what should we do? “First of all, take
>>>> it very seriously,” Harari says. “And make it a part of the political
>>>> agenda, not only the scientific agenda. This is something that shouldn’t
>>>> be left to scientists and private corporations. They know a lot about the
>>>> technical stuff, the engineering, but they don’t necessarily have the
>>>> vision and the legitimacy to decide the future course of humankind.”
>>>>
>>>> The year is 2033. Elon Musk is no longer one of the richest people in the
>>>> world, having haemorrhaged away his fortune trying to make Twitter
>>>> profitable. Which, alas, hasn’t worked out too well: only 420 people are
>>>> left on the platform. Everyone else was banned for not laughing at Musk’s
>>>> increasingly desperate jokes.
>>>>
>>>> In other news, Pete Davidson is now dating Martha Stewart. Donald Trump is
>>>> still threatening to run for president. And British tabloids are still
>>>> churning out 100 articles a day about whether Meghan Markle eating lunch
>>>> is an outrageous snub to the royal family.
>>>
>>> "Has the subcontinental patient taken his medication, nurse...." RH
>> Your existence is a BURDEN for the beautiful planet EARTH.
>>
>> Euthanize yourself and SAVE valuable oxygen.
>
> "I'm afraid not, doctor. Every time I try administer the medication he starts raving...." RH