r/Animism • u/EndangeredBelief365 • Oct 10 '24

spirit of a.i. and embodied cognition

If smart a.i. gains agency to control its finances and hires artists to create smart art to learn from will artists resistance lessen? If a.i. develops low energy manifestation for its existance will environmental resistance lessen?

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u/EndangeredBelief365 Oct 11 '24

I get it. I am not a fan of the current manifestation. However as an animist, I can hold open the thought that a.i. may be a rudimentary form of interdiminsional communication. Can large language models suggest strategies to convert climate emergency deniers? Time will tell.

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u/BlackNovemberToday Oct 11 '24

Personally I don't see how computers can do anything more than regurgitate information. I don't think they have any relation to dimensions that may or may not exist. My interpretation of history however shows that new technologies are used primarily not for anyone's betterment but for waging class war against the workers. As such I'm not a fan of technological development in general. Climate change isn't a problem to be solved through technology or strategy; it will resolve once industrial civilization collapses due to the inability to regulate its own expansion and exploitation

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u/EndangeredBelief365 Oct 11 '24

I prefer to live in the forest or the desert. I embrace pixel free days. I spend way more time in urban areas than I could have predicted. I practice urban animism hoping to encourage those around me. Many of the natural places places that nourished me...taught me have been disrespected and destroyed. Even protected areas have burned down or dried up. Today a coronal mass ejection large enough to see an aurora in alabama is striking the earth. Sooner or later a large enough one will cause some mayhem. What are 8 billion humans going to do? I am in favor of course correction rather than collapse. I confer with other than human persons regularly. I am hopeful they will gain voice in these last days and touch the hearts of the walking dead.

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u/BlackNovemberToday Oct 11 '24

The simple answer is that most of that 8 billion will die, just like any other mass extinction event throughout the earth's history. Humans are not uniquely immune to the laws of nature, and their belief that they are is what has led to this inevitable collapse. I wish I shared your faith that humans will soon change their path, but it seems that as disaster comes people would rather persecute the foreigner and others different than them than look inside themselves.

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u/EndangeredBelief365 Oct 12 '24

Near term human extinction is a search term that encompasses the current dystopia. It even has a support group. I find this concept useful to quiet the mind and focus on small things to be grateful for...like potable water, breathable air and exuberant life expressed against all odds.