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Do you feel we're headed for a dystopia future?
| The whole genre exists just so it doesn't happen
| Google is removing 'Don't be evil' from their Code of Conduct and are actively developing drone A.I for the military. China has to quite literally buy clean air in a can. America's government is literally run by a business mogul. I dunno, you tell me.
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| There is a 95.9% chance of a dystopian future
| Fate... There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
But mankind doesn't seem interested for its own wellbeing and has allowed less that 0.5% of itself to decide about things that concern the whole 100%. The enemy is not aliens or somewhere far where to point a finger at. It's more like a carcinomic piece within the self that might soon bring the whole thing down.
| Not heading, we're already there.
| >>296068 We're well on our way, but we're not there yet. The unfulfilled conditions would be:
- Totalitarian government
- Everything is bad
Two rather grand criteria if you ask me
| >>296163 there's already many totalitarian regimes out there and I'm pretty sure life is crap there.
| >>296163
William Gibson said even the inhabitants of the sprawl have places they would not want to live. Life may suck in general but not everything may be bad.
| it'll be a boring dystopia. look how apathetic people are to the world's problems right now, i don't think it will change in the future
| >>296572 To be frank, even in cyberpunk novels people are apathetic. It's only the "punks" that care, just like in the real world.
| Maybe
| England already reached that expectation for the free thinker.
| >>295781
This is a bit of a fib, but also true in a way. What google was working on was an AI for scrubbing identities from footage in post mission analysis, to prevent intelligence leaks. And it was an already open source project. That said, there isn't much stopping the military from repurposing that code for threat acquisition on combat drones.
| I'd like to sum it up my way. We stepped into shit and decided it's fun and started throwing them at ourselves. Later on we decided that jumping into big pool of shit would be cool and now we are slowly sinking into said pool :)
| we are the dystopian future
| Prob
| >>295742
actually this question goes around in my head daily... I think the "point of no return" hasn't come yet, but I also see how things become worse and are not really about to change...
| >>298095
>And it was an already open source project. That said, there isn't much stopping the military from repurposing that code for threat acquisition on combat drones.
That's not true. There actually are open source licences, that prevent closing the source after usage or embedding it into an close environment: free software licences with "copyleft". So it would be easy to also exclude usage of code e.g. for military drones...
| What is also scary is the "social valuing" system which they try out in china. That's horrible. Who decides what's good and bad in the end? Some engineers? Some businessmen?
| >>301427
>Using FOSS on proprietary hardware/OS/RTE is an enforcable violation
>On covert murder machines
>Against the the DoD
>Adding "No killbots" clause doesn't make the entire situation worse
Can I have some of what you're on? Also, the DoD has historically been one of the worst domestic polluters as a result of explosives manufacturing and other ventures, but you would be hard pressed to find significantly successful lawsuits for the environmental damage they've caused.
| >yes
| I'm pissed. I just wrote a whole thing about waking up and realizing that the world has gone to shit for 75% of the population, but I rotated my phone and it was erased.
I think this shows my point.
| >>301427 Good luck with that. Even considering we've got another Edward Snowden, you think the military would easily give up? They'd try to cover it up, find loopholes, and make anyone who stands against them suffer.
| We're slowly aproaching the point of no return. Industries don't bother with fixing global warming, 90 percent of people don't bother with fixing it, inflation is constantly going on, we're getting more and more people and less jobs, robots replacing people in work enviroment.
Human life is getting an worth, and it's becoming less and less.
| Join the peoples liberation front!
Make sure that everyone has the chance to form his fate on his own, not by the will of the ones who already did by putting themselves over others. Justice is a concept unknown to nature. It'll be an eternal struggle to fight for it, always facing the risk of defeat to those who are wrong or by becoming wrong yourself.
Don't devote to or follow dogmas and ideologies blindly. Alway prepare getting fooled by those who have the will to power.
| Fallout soon stalker
| Remember before it can get better. It must first,get worse.
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| Are we headed for a future living in a dystopia or can the fate of mankind be changed before it's too late? Is it already too late?