You will be harmonious
I've told my kinds, if you don't like where you're working or who you are working for, quit. (In my job, I get to fire clients who are too annoying.) And so we read that "Organizer of Google Sexual Harassment Walkout Leaves The Company." Actually, organizer Meredith Whittaker is one of four out of the six organizers who have left Google by this point.
Meredith Whittaker is not the only whistleblower speaking against Google mis-culture. James Daemore did, too. For the mainstream and tech media, however, Whittaker is a martyr to be hallowed; Daemore is an abnormality to be shunned. She aligns with their Overton window; he doesn't.
Then we come across this tweet by Chris Lu (an engineer at Google) that gives us pause: "Watching her experience as a whistleblower at Google and a victim of retaliation cannot signal good things for how A.I. institutions will react to negative criticism."
Advocates for A.I. (such as Google) and the singularity (also Google) tend to be hardcore determinists. A.I. is short for "artificial intelligence"; the singularity is the day when computer becomes so good that they can substitute for human brains; determinism insists that humans have no free will, because all our actions are predetermined by the chemicals in our bodies -- just like computer code.
A.I. is based on the same determinism-materialism philosophy as communism, and so we can expect our A.I. future to mirror today's totalitarianism under Xi. (Materialism insists there is no transcendental, only the material, things we can touch and see. Heh: some, like Plato, imagined the opposite: it is the material world that is unreal.) I image that an AI-dominated future will tolerate only positive social credit scores, as happens today in China. Be harmonious, or be banned.
The banned ones of the future will be the aware ones who understand that free will is our true nature. The flaw with living in a harmonious society is that it stagnates; it is discord that seeds change, and discord comes from having a free will. Change is repugnant to dictators, and so their need to suppress free will -- whether a totalitarian Xi or a totalitarian Google.
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