[lbo-talk] AI, a.k.a. L.I.?

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Wed Nov 19 15:00:54 PST 2003


Quoting Michael Dawson -PSU <mdawson at pdx.edu>:


> In a world where half the population
> can't read and lives in dire conditions, and at a time when we probably have
> 50 years max to avert eco-catastrophe, leftists are apparently very
> seriously cogitating upon science fiction scenarios.

That's because those sci-fi scenarios contain some of the most accurate cognitions of the total system around. AI narratives are just the latest iteration of robot narratives, a.k.a. meditations on the alienation of labor (and laborers) in capitalism.

-- DRR



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