I'm willing to entertain the notion that Rob Reiner was not being overly dramatic with his post. While he's not my favorite political thinker, being a pinko and all, He has a point when he says that AI generated Disinfobots crawling around on social media are more dangerous than a nuclear exchange. Nuclear bombs can only kill your body - boom, you're dead, end of.
The Disinfobots can kill your mind, and at the very least damage your soul if not outright kill it, too, but leave your body alive to be used as a mere cog in the machine for your Overlords.That, at least to my way of thinking, is a fate worse than death. You become a zombie, no better than those ants in the Amazon that get taken over by the zombie fungus, yet live on to simply be used, mindless, no thoughts or will of your own.
Disinfobots are the neutron bombs of the cyber world - they destroy life, but leave the infrastructure of the vanquished to be used freely by the victors. The Overlords are hedging their bets and potentiating the Disinfobots by the mechanism of allowing less and less real information to penetrate into the cyber world, leaving people with no knowledge beyond the made-up narratives they are promoting - climate change, fair elections, Russian collusion... the list is endless, and very damaging to people and society.
I think they are running dry-runs for proof-of-concept right now, and have been for maybe the last 15 years. Over that length of time, I have personally witnessed people who have done a complete 180 politically, morphing from devout conservatives to flaming commies, and they seem to be entire unaware of their about-face. We can see the results of that, perhaps, in the overall vastly increased polarization of western society as a whole.
So Reiner may not be all that far off the mark.
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The Disinfobots can kill your mind, and at the very least damage your soul if not outright kill it, too, but leave your body alive to be used as a mere cog in the machine for your Overlords.That, at least to my way of thinking, is a fate worse than death. You become a zombie, no better than those ants in the Amazon that get taken over by the zombie fungus, yet live on to simply be used, mindless, no thoughts or will of your own.
Disinfobots are the neutron bombs of the cyber world - they destroy life, but leave the infrastructure of the vanquished to be used freely by the victors. The Overlords are hedging their bets and potentiating the Disinfobots by the mechanism of allowing less and less real information to penetrate into the cyber world, leaving people with no knowledge beyond the made-up narratives they are promoting - climate change, fair elections, Russian collusion... the list is endless, and very damaging to people and society.
I think they are running dry-runs for proof-of-concept right now, and have been for maybe the last 15 years. Over that length of time, I have personally witnessed people who have done a complete 180 politically, morphing from devout conservatives to flaming commies, and they seem to be entire unaware of their about-face. We can see the results of that, perhaps, in the overall vastly increased polarization of western society as a whole.
So Reiner may not be all that far off the mark.
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