Technological Transhumanism And The Prison Planet Construct.

Mictlantecuhtli · May 21, 2016, 9:15pm

This will be my ongoing thread where I’ll critique technological transhumanism and all social, political, or government movements behind it. The goal of this thread is to criticize the notion or belief that all technology is progressive and beneficial, transhumanism itself as a philosophy, and more importantly the global implementation of both.

I’ll be discussing what is my perception the inevitable collapse of advanced technological societies trying to be constructed through transhumanism.

Mictlantecuhtli · May 21, 2016, 9:42pm

On the transhumanistic future stratification of gender.

Many economists and technologists believe the world is on the brink of a new industrial revolution, in which advances in the field of artificial intelligence will obsolete human labor at an unforgiving pace. Two Oxford researchers recently analyzed the skills required for more than 700 different occupations to determine how many of them would be susceptible to automation in the near future, and the news was not good: They concluded that machines are likely to take over 47 percent of today’s jobs within a few decades.

This is a dire prediction, but one whose consequences will not fall upon society evenly. A close look at the data reveals a surprising pattern: The jobs performed primarily by women are relatively safe, while those typically performed by men are at risk.

It should come as no surprise that despite progress on equality in the labor force, many common professions exhibit a high degree of gender bias. For instance, of the 3 million truck drivers in the U.S., more than 95 percent are men; of the nearly 3 million secretaries and administrative assistants, more than 95 percent are women. Autonomous vehicles are a not-too-distant possibility, and when they arrive, those drivers’ jobs will evaporate; office-support workers suffer no such imminent threat.

This pattern holds for many of the most gender-biased occupations. Men hold 97 percent of the 2.5 million U.S. construction and carpentry jobs. The Oxford study estimates that these male workers stand more than a 70 percent chance of being replaced by robotic workers. By contrast, women hold 93 percent of the registered nurse positions. Their risk of obsolescence is vanishingly small: .009 percent.

Nearly half of today’s jobs are likely to become obsolete in the not-too-distant future.
What is causing this pattern? The skills exhibited by the coming wave of intelligent machines are better suited to occupations currently dominated by men. Many of the jobs held by men involve perception and manipulation, often in conjunction with physical exertion, such as swinging a hammer or trimming trees. The latest mobile robots combine advanced-sensory systems with dexterous manipulators to successfully perform these sorts of tasks.

Other, more cerebral male-dominated professions aren’t secure either. Many occupations that might appear to require experience and judgment—such as commodity traders—are being outdone by increasingly sophisticated machine-learning programs capable of quickly teasing subtle patterns out of large volumes of data.

By contrast, women typically work in more chaotic, unstructured environments, where the ability to read people’s emotions and intentions are critical to success. If your job involves distracting a patient while delivering an injection, guessing whether a crying baby wants a bottle or a diaper change, or expressing sympathy to calm an irate customer, you needn’t worry that a robot will take your job, at least for the foreseeable future.

So what will the new machines be good at? For starters, they will be well-suited to tasks that are easily specified and offer objective criteria for success. These features permit an engineer to codify requirements in a programmatic form and measure the results. It’s easy to understand what a robotic housepainter is supposed to accomplish and to see if the job has been done correctly; it’s harder to assess whether a dementia patient might be more comfortable with a warmer blanket. Computers also excel at tasks that benefit from consistency, attention, and objectivity, such as washing windows, managing the flow of air traffic, or assigning taxi drivers to trip requests.

Skills exhibited by intelligent machines are better suited to occupations currently dominated by men.
Another characteristic affecting a job’s security is the breadth of skills it requires. Computers aren’t usually designed to replace workers; they typically automate specific tasks, making a given worker more productive. But when an automated system can match the entire range of that worker’s talents, his or her services are no longer needed. So the broader and more varied your duties, the harder it will be to replace you.

In short, today’s typical women’s work is what will predominate in future. On a mass scale, this pattern may result in an involuntary shift in the division of labor, with husbands tending to household duties after dropping their wives off at the office. Superficially, that may sound cheery, but the reality will be much grimmer, as families struggle to make ends meet on one income, and men struggle with the emotional upheaval of no longer having a place in the world of work.

theatlantic.com/business/arc … on/400364/

Pandora · May 22, 2016, 5:36am

There are so many holes in this argument, I’m now convinced you’re looking for this kind of stuff on purpose.

Amorphos · May 22, 2016, 2:18pm

@op

I’ll counter that with the idea that rather than being trans-human, futurists are aiming to be more human.

There are potential negatives, and we will have to find intelligent answers, but really a lot of problems in the world can be resolved quite easily. Sanitation in India could be resolved with plumbing, overcrowding with better architecture and 3D printed buildings. The darkness imposed by having large buildings in clusters [aka cities], can be largely resolved with far larger more voluminous and semi/transparent structures, with large gardened spaces between them.

There are many potential problems though, but I think if we make it past the next 30 years then we will have a permanent society [not recycled/throwaway].

ps. I probably sound a lot more positive than I actually am ~ because that’s the philosophy I would advocate. I actually think the world sucks and we will die from gagging.

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Mictlantecuhtli · May 24, 2016, 8:12am

Are you serious?

Mictlantecuhtli · May 24, 2016, 8:16am

Amorphos:

@op

I’ll counter that with the idea that rather than being trans-human, futurists are aiming to be more human.

There are potential negatives, and we will have to find intelligent answers, but really a lot of problems in the world can be resolved quite easily. Sanitation in India could be resolved with plumbing, overcrowding with better architecture and 3D printed buildings. The darkness imposed by having large buildings in clusters [aka cities], can be largely resolved with far larger more voluminous and semi/transparent structures, with large gardened spaces between them.

There are many potential problems though, but I think if we make it past the next 30 years then we will have a permanent society [not recycled/throwaway].

ps. I probably sound a lot more positive than I actually am ~ because that’s the philosophy I would advocate. I actually think the world sucks and we will die from gagging.

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What’s the difference between futurism and transhumanism? I’ve always looked at both as being the same.

Amorphos · May 24, 2016, 10:54pm

I know what you mean, and I expect it could turn out like that. My vision of the future is one of mastery over ourselves, invention and the permanent society. That’s only because the alternative is an eventual return to the stone age, ~ after resources run out [if we don’t find a permanent solution]. That [stone age] potential looks like failure to me, although I must admit there are potential futures which look even worse. I hate how e.g. x-boxes can look around the room in your home, and can only see such intrusion getting worse. The amount of ads in American football shows another potential future i’d hate [though I do like the sport itself], already we have twice the amount we had when I was young.

Mictlantecuhtli · August 31, 2016, 5:01pm

Put pizza delivery boys on the list of soon to be extinct jobs.

Overnight, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises of New Zealand become the world’s first company to offer a commercial drone delivery service, “a milestone in the quest to save time and money with an air-borne supply chain dispensing with people”, it also means that yet another staple minimum-wage job has been put on the endangered species list.

Domino’s Pizza Enterprises conducted a demonstration pizza delivery by drone in the New Zealand city of Auckland on Thursday, and afterwards said it aimed to be the first company to launch a regular drone service, late this year. “We’ve always said that it doesn’t make sense to have a 2-tonne machine delivering a 2-kilogram order,” Domino’s Chief Executive Officer Don Meij said in a statement.

Domino’s is not the first: some of the world’s biggest companies including Amazon and Google, have plans to make deliveries by drone as a result of which (or rather their money), aviation authorities in the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand have been relaxing rules to allow air deliveries. Last month, U.S. convenience store chain 7-Eleven Inc SILC.UL conducted the first single commercial drone delivery including coffee, donuts and a chicken sandwich, as part of a trial.

zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-2 … -will-look

Mictlantecuhtli · August 31, 2016, 5:43pm

Quotes from your run of the mill corrupt economist. Introducing Viktor Shvets…

“There is no productivity on a global basis. Secular stagnation, technological shifts, monetary policy, all are suppressing productivity growth rates,” he says. But what about technology making humans more productive? Shvets says this was true in the first and second industrial revolution where displaced jobs such as horse-cart drivers eventually morphed into higher-tech and higher-productivity ones like the taxi driver.

However, in this, the third industrial revolution, machines are not augmenting humans, they are replacing them. The self-driving car will completely eliminate the driver. And even in the previous more-mechanical industrial revolutions, it often took decades for productivity growth to recover and for jobs to come back, only after higher-productivity sectors dominated the majority of the economy.

“We are now on the sharp end of the technology S curve. It started in the late 1970s, it’s picked up in the last 5-10 years, productivity growth rates go down not up. It takes time to line up machines, and this time we are replacing humans altogether,” he said.

And not only lower-skilled jobs like taxi drivers are concerned. Just look at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where you can barely see a human “specialist” trader anymore. The machines in New Jersey have taken over the trading.

theepochtimes.com/n3/2143386 … r-recover/

Mictlantecuhtli · October 10, 2016, 7:40am

I’ve been meaning to get back to this thread for months now and I find this subject greatly interesting regarding the fourth industrial revolution or what is called the emerging second economy. Lately I’ve been reading critiques of both futurism and transhumanism where it is all very fascinating. Things like technological unemployment, obsolete humanity, neoluddism, total societal automation, universal basic incomes, automated socialism, work incentives, technological disruption, technological utopianism, artificial intelligence, technological singularity, and so on. I’ve come to the conclusion in my usual perspective of civilization destroying itself that this oncoming technological singularity will be just one of many aspects that it will occur. What will come out of it will not be a technological social utopia of enlightenment but instead will be a technological dystopian nightmare of global proportions.

So, let’s start a comprehensive conversation on this subject, shall we?

First off, if all the workers of the world becomes replaced by robotics or automation, who will pay taxes or buy goods concerning a consumer economic society?

What will become of a vast majority of the population that inevitably would experience technological unemployment where the mark or title of existential biological obsoleteness would be hanged over them in this fourth industrial revolution worldwide?

Would a universal basic income be created for everybody? How would such a system be funded or function economically? Would the new large population of biological obsoletes become the new slaves of the future? Would the future elite simply try to kill them all off out of mere convenience in not having to deal with them?

It’s expected that 75% of all human labor as it exists now will be replaced within the next forty five years. The Brave New World of tyranny and an automated giant prison planet is coming on the future horizon. Shall the world remain oblivious to this ongoing development?

Ultimate_Philosophy · October 10, 2016, 4:14pm

joker we need a Bane to save us from society and to save us from the gotham industrial complex.

Arminius · October 11, 2016, 12:14pm

When will the last one be fired?

Arminius · October 14, 2016, 4:49pm

Maybe there will happen some relevant events (for example the collapse of the Keynesianistic/Neo-Keynesianistic system [“fiat” money system], a disaster as a consequence of the global war, a natural disaster, the take-over of the androids) at almost the same time.

Mictlantecuhtli · October 15, 2016, 7:47pm

They say the singularity will be upon us by the mid 2045’s…

I have my doubts that the world will even last that long given its current state of affairs.

Mictlantecuhtli · October 15, 2016, 7:54pm

It’s possible. Nobody knows what the military industrial complex around the world really has in terms of secret technologies not released to the general public.

Ultimate_Philosophy · October 15, 2016, 11:37pm

I say we make a Enlightenment Ray to save the sheeple from themselves. And beware of those fake Enlightened, most of them are either Illuminati, narcissists, or both.

Arminius · November 1, 2016, 2:35am

Soon it will be possible to carry the zygote, the embryo, and the fetus in an extrauterine way. Then we will have totally arrived at the point of the more insecure, the more primitve reproduction again. We will no longer need any intrauterine thing then.

The natural womb as the realization of the the natural idea to lay the egg into the inside of the body will have become obsolete. There will be no natural birth any longer, since the natural uterus will not be needed any longer. Humans will not be needed any longer - their natural reproduction will be replaced by genetic engineering and artificial “wombs”, their economical production will be replaced by machines (cp.: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=185562) and perhaps by artificial humans (cyborgs) … So humans will either become artificial humans or die out.

James_S_Saint · November 1, 2016, 3:40am

Too much focus on the problem.
Not enough on the solution to it.
With no solution, whatever the problem is, is irrelevant.

Mictlantecuhtli · November 1, 2016, 7:22am

Arminius:

Soon it will be possible to carry the zygote, the embryo, and the fetus in an extrauterine way. Then we will have totally arrived at the point of the more insecure, the more primitve reproduction again. We will no longer need any intrauterine thing then.

The natural womb as the realization of the the natural idea to lay the egg into the inside of the body will have become obsolete. There will be no natural birth any longer, since the natural uterus will not be needed any longer. Humans will not be needed any longer - their natural reproduction will be replaced by genetic engineering and artificial “wombs”, their economical production will be replaced by machines (cp.: ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopi … 1&t=185562) and perhaps by artificial humans (cyborgs) … So humans will either become artificial humans or die out.

If the future goes unabated everybody will become designer test tube babies where their genetic or DNA sequence will be pre engineered in a typical eugenics platform. Of course only the very wealthy will be able to afford these designer laboratory infants where as usual the poor will be told mandatory either to not reproduce or be priced out of the reproduction market altogether. Technological transhumanism and tyranny is so in vogue for the future, don’t you all know?

Of course all of that will stop when artificial robots start reproducing themselves in which from then on out all human beings under their new robotic overlords will be told to stop reproducing altogether. Prophesies of the great technological marvel future we’re supposedly going to inherit within the next hundred years. Isn’t the advanced technological future just grand?

This is the statist philosophical transhumanism being spoon fed to the ignorant public and crammed up our collective asses.

Mictlantecuhtli · November 1, 2016, 7:57am

The solution is? Enlighten us James.

My solution is total destruction of technological industrial society before we destroy the world and even more ourselves…