“It’s only real if we say it’s real!”
I wrote this yesterday, but it kept on bothering me after I sent it in to Newswithviews.com.
It’s that “new religion” looming on the far horizon–a fake religion based on techno-slop. What will it be like? “After you die here, you live forever in cyberspace!”
Meanwhile, we’ve got a bunch of new realities. Which is to say “You only think it’s real… because we have made you crazy.”
For my purposes, the instant nature of many social media platforms has a lot of potential for harm. Tweets, FB posts, etc. seem to last forever. One thoughtless tweet, and you are forever a prisoner of those words. Now, projecting that forward with AI sounds like a recipe for disaster.