Humans are no longer valued for our creativity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff — in a world dominated by digital technology, we're now just valued for our data. In a passionate talk, Rushkoff urges us to stop using technology to optimize people for the market and start using it to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. "Join 'Team Human.' Find the others," he says. "Together let's make the future that we always wanted."
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Great video and people helping people in any way makes a difference! Always find inspiration here for my channel especially with how tech is now days!
We live in a society
I was wondering when Justin’s going to pop up and he’s actually one of the first commenters.
Hmm..
*Team Alien:* [chuckles] I’m in danger.
— CAPTCHA —
2050—— I’M NOT A HUMAN
I imagined myself checking it and failing.
Technology, the gift and the curse. Depends on how you use it.
A lot of curse going on. Lol
because it is a product of humanity and contains the creator’s flaws
How Do I Maintain My Security after the events?
Buy gold
Buy bitcoin
Gold has very little utility. Its value will not survive an authentic apocalypse, merely an economic crisis.
Learn to get on with other humans.
By asking what they value and be sincere about it the question but do not do it in front of others that can get …….
The Smartphone is one of humanity’s greatest invention, wasted away by memes and antisocial media
The Internet future is a dystopia, is basically giving up on the real world and living in a fantasy world
A lot of everything people believe in is based on convenient lies. Antosocial media is one of the best ways to find the truth.
times used on memes is time not wasted. Respect the memes
“Do you think God stays in heaven, because he too lives in fear of what he has created?”
-Steve Buscemi
God has no fear. We a probably in a simulation which means god is just a programmer… Why would he be scared?
The fear doens´t exist and God don´t know anything about that. He is not aware about fear
Human beings are terrible and deserve to be wiped out
One big EMP from a solar coronal mass ejection, like the Carrington Event in 1859, would do it.
Do your part. Jump off a building/cliff.
No one is stopping you
An inspiring speech. Kinda relate about the man isolating himself from the world – I’ve had similar thoughts and fantasies even though I am still just a student.
The wealthiest, most powerful people in the world are all psychopathic cowards. These people stole their wealth, and are looking to save themselves at the expense of all other people. Billions will die unless these wealthy psychopaths are eliminated.
There are builders and there are consumers. The elite inherited wealth from achieving antecedents, and have managed to manage their money to multiply it. Consumers spend it while achievers invest it and devise ways to multiply it. That’s not stealing. Spenders will always spend, investors will always invest.
Kill all the wealthy, distribute their wealth to spenders who will spend it and not be any better off than the day of the purge.
Lol man imagine being rich and having salty/hateful people saying you “stole it” even though you worked to get your family there. That is true in Africa though so I guess you aren’t all the way wrong.
The cancer is in letting profit drive all decisions. This may be the sigle generalization that remains true. When people are distilled to their data, the alienation of Man b man that was fortold by Marx and others is complete.
Love and respect right now. Agreed. Good talk.
Think about that.
My name is Eight Billion,
I contain an angel and a devil struggling inside,
The face I dress varies to survive,
Always hungry for power, never enough to content,
I look for “inner peace” whilst consumed by grudge,
For sons, for daughters, for the self, please be advised, there long existed the new code, aside,
Let’s consider having an appointment with the best stylist for a change,
Experience, how exceptionally would you look better reflecting the best,
Thus, if you manage to change yourself, repenting for good,
The place called Earth might turn into Heaven, I assure,
It is me, it is you, it is us will power to CHANGE.
Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.
“Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children. (The Noble Qur’an. Surah Hadid. Verse:20)
Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned. (The Noble Quran. Surah Al Anbya. Verse 35)
For more;
French : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVY8pwx9B74
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omh4oG8T_Fw
German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXWTxB6oS6I
I agree with a lot of what he said, however I think he missed the point that the trans-humanist makes, the whole point of the singularity is that machines will be smarter than us, that includes emotional intelligence, creativity, empathy, they will be self-aware and have most if not all of our values, of course this isn’t 100% guarantied but it is a very likely outcome, even if super human AI is very different from the way we process information, it doesn’t automatically make them robotic zombies, that’s what the trans-humanist meant he we replied “you’re just saying that cause you’re a human” because we tend to think linearly and tend to assume all forms of AI, even future AI will be soulless and unyielding (not referring to the religious kind of soul), sure right now AI (mostly deep neural networks) is no where near conscious and it doesn’t exactly work the way the brain works, I should now since I’ve done a thesis on neural networks and plan on specializing in this field , but you can’t extrapolate or compare today’s AI to what it will become in decades, this is just one of the reasons why this field of study is so interesting to me.
That was the only thing I think he misunderstood, otherwise great talk!
Totally agree, well put! We’ve been seriously working on recreating the brain digitally for well over a decade now. Our knowledge of the brain influences our understanding of tech, and visa versa. While I agree with most of this talk, I wouldn’t necessarily agree that transhumanists are not “team human” (Ray Kurzweil has a good take on this subject). I think the main issue is tech being wielded as a weapon rather than a tool.
Our values come from our evolution. Machine evolution will not be limited by biological reproduction and it will not have the same feedback system as tribal apes. It will result in some machine minds with values like ours, but some incomprehensibly different. With changes coming from algorithms rather than random mutation, there will be an exponential growth of different forms of machines with different values. It is inevitable that, sooner or later, there will be machines whose values are in conflict with the well-being of humanity.
We’re not worried about the hundreds of billions of nice machine minds. We are worried about the one inevitable machine who has the means and motivation to act against us, and the ability to extinguish all intelligent biological life.
It is 100% certain that he will exist at some point in the future if we release self-replicating intelligent machines.
+Lugh Summerson Yes it is possible for a machine with conflicting values to arise, how ever AI is evolving in a ways similar to natural selection, actually I think the term is artificial selection (since we choose which AIs to keep and use and which to discard, at least for the time being), sure some AIs evolve through natural selection processes like NEAT (Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies, I based my thesis on this kind of network), however you assume there will only be one super AI capable of destroying us, however if one of those AIs is capable of existing it is reasonable to also assume there will be way more AIs of the same level capable of handling such a wicked AI for lack of a better term, I know you mentioned billions of nice minds, but why would those AIs be inferior in intelligence and capability than an AI who’s values contradict ours? There is no reason to believe so.
Just like today there isn’t just one AI there’s countless, what’s to come in the coming decades isn’t so black or white, its a gray scale of good things and bad things, just like every other technology we’ve ever invented.
From minute 10:00 are his best statements and I agree with them. I started working in ‘digital’ i.e. with computers in 1977. What drives the misuse of any form of technology (like the bullet in a gun, or the gun) is what humans intend to do with it. The race towards making humans redundant is a political act. You can change it.
*Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much*
*The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team*