• Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml
    331·
    3 days ago

    2035? I’d have argued most of these things are already here or at least trivially close…

    no privacy - Corporate overlords have been declaring us “post-privacy” for a looooong-ass time, and Governments and their enforcers have been chomping at the bit for at least as long, because they want in on the game

    robot cops - Palantir Gotham plus semi-autonomous drones; It’s a question of degree, not of when.

    robots displacing workers - Has literally been happening for more than half a century; The current LLM bullshit is going to give it another push, obviously.

    robot rights - Well, are LLM companies just violating copyright or are LLMs simply ordinary artists that learn by looking at other folks art, just like their human forebears? (It doesn’t matter what you think, it matters what we as society ultimately make of that and I wouldn’t be optimistic)

    criminals with hundreds of drones - They’ve been running humongous botnets for decades; If they see a business case for doing something drone-wise in meatspace they’ll absofuckinglutely do so today rather than tomorrow, and maybe they already are and we’re just not aware because it’s still flying under the radar.

    If you aren’t expecting some variation of full-on Cyberpunk right now I honestly don’t know what you’re waiting for…

    • qualia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Since they’re law enforcement I interpreted the report as them preparing for the worst possible outcomes given upcoming tech, and then escalating in response to that.

    • Solumbran@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 days ago

      Covid does affect the brain.

      But seriously, people have always been that stupid, it’s just that capitalism and fascism are a race towards the bottom, that speeds up over time.

  • maplesaga@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 days ago

    Whats the alternative, let China and Russia build up the technology and we stay in the past?

    The US has the largest military because its the reserve currency, they print money and export their inflation and they spend that money on military expenditures, which prevents people from moving off USD.

    This then lets them sanction other countries and control the worlds shipping lanes, so asking them to stop developing their military is asking for the existing global order to cease to exist, and then you’re at the whims of whatever power fills that void.

      • maplesaga@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Having rejected centralised restrictions on technology then, the alternative we are left with is decentralised restriction. This could include boycotts, agreements, social stigma, parallel economies, civil disobedience and more, with the goal of limiting the development, distribution or adoption of anti-human technologies.

        So you require that people just boycott countries like China, stop buying their trinkets and they’ll stop creating doomsday weapons?

        • StopTech@lemmy.todayOP
          1·
          1 day ago

          No. I’m not convinced China is worse than the US in terms of developing anti-human technologies and people living in China can’t boycott China. The point is to get the people in every significant country (including China) to oppose these technologies so strongly that they aren’t able to be developed anywhere. The Chinese military has to employ Chinese people to make its weapons, but if 80% of the population is opposed to these weapons existing and even the foundation of modern technology on which they are built then that is going to be difficult. Even if they were able to only employ those who are fine with WMDs the public’s opposition to modern technology would be a problem for the government maintaining control while developing those weapons and forcing modern technology on the people as a means of controlling them.

  • timmytbt@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    3 days ago

    I’d like to watch the full length video. The link doesn’t work obviously. Can you point me in the right direction?