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Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment
I know that sounds bonkers, but just hear me out.
Early Enlightenment thinkers such as August Comte and Henri de Saint-Simon explicitly envisioned this as a historically progressive process that would end with a scientific utopia, where scientists, technocrats, and experts are revered like priests, and where humanity, rather than God, is worshipped. I've been bashing the ever-loving faecal matter out of Killing Floor 3 lately, for instance, and while it's fun to get lost in the dopamine-fuelled progression system, I try to keep myself rooted in understanding that I'm sitting down to connect with other people for a common goal in a game that's had a lot of time and energy poured into it by real humans, really creating something. I think the full solution to the anti-human strain of AI fanaticism might involve a little more than this ( see here, if you're interested), but one thing's for sure: Whatever changes we make, they will have to be fundamental, not ones that stay inside the current paradigm which assumes we are on a path of historical progression, guided by human reason and culminating in scientific or technological utopia.
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