[ExI] Critics view of TED lectures

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2013-12-31 11:54, BillK wrote:
> Science, philosophy and technology run on the model of American Idol –
> as embodied by TED talks – is a recipe for civilisational disaster

Yup. No time for questions, emphasis on wow. I actually called it mental 
pornography in an ethics blog post this summer ( 
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/07/censorship-pornography-and-divine-swan-on-human-action/ 
)

I will also speak at TEDx Oxford on the 26th of January. Go figure :-)


> Because, if a problem is in fact endemic to a system, then the
> exponential effects of Moore's law also serve to amplify what's
> broken. It is more computation along the wrong curve, and I don't it
> is necessarily a triumph of reason.

This is an interesting and important point. Of course, if things just 
broke when inherent contradictions became untenable everything would be 
fine - we would have Schumpeterian creative destruction. Instead we get 
problems that also mutate as fast as we try to understand them. Obesity 
today is not obesity 20 years ago, surveillance today is entirely 
different from 20 years ago.



-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University