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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/JedPonders on 2024-01-14 18:31:33+00:00.
The title says it all. I've been researching the philosophy of technology for my Phd in AI, and everything comes to the conclusion that the hope - the wanting - of technology to solve all of our human conditional problems echoes the same as religion, and even humanism. We are not the center of the universe, and placing technology into a psuedo-godlike state will only neglect the actuality of our situation. This is not to say technology is bad, not at all in fact, but that the faith we put behind our tools to right the wrongs we cause will only continue the trend we have seen since premodernity. These tools we create ought to be considered on the same level as us, as with the rest of nature and the universe. The subject and object does not hold the same primacy as the very mediation which evokes the two. Technology is a prime mediator, and instead of relying on it blindly, we should reevaluate our relationship to it, so that we may better our understanding of ourselves.
As Donna Harraway said, "I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess." Paradise is not something technology will deliver to us, but rather something we need to actively, and democratically, construct with technology.