“The spirits that I summoned, I now cannot rid myself of again.”
“Most Germans in 1933, for example, were not psychopaths. So why did they vote for Hitler?”
“Our problem, then, is a network problem.”“Even more specifically, it is an information problem.”
“As George Orwell famously put it, ignorance is strength.”
“In the twenty-first century, some new totalitarian regime may well succeed where Hitler and Stalin failed, creating an all-powerful network that could prevent future generations from even attempting to expose its lies and fictions.
“The naive view of information is perhaps most succinctly captured in Google’s mission statement “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google’s answer to Goethe’s warnings is that while a single apprentice pilfering his master’s secret spell book is likely to cause disaster, when a lot of apprentices are given free access to all the world’s information, they will not only create useful enchanted brooms but also learn to handle them wisely.”
“Can we trust computer algorithms to make wise decisions and create a better world? That’s a much bigger gamble than trusting an enchanted broom to fetch water. And it is more than just human lives we are gambling on. AI could alter the course not just of our species’ history but of the evolution of all life-forms.”
“Full-blown totalitarianism might have been dreamed about by the likes of the Qin, but its implementation had to wait for the development of modern technology.”
“Just as modern technology enabled large-scale democracy, it also made large-scale totalitarianism possible.”
“Humans have repeatedly claimed that certain things would forever remain out of reach for computers—be it playing chess, driving a car, or composing poetry—but “forever” turned out to be a handful of years.”
This position was unabashedly distilled in 2015 by Marine Le Pen—leader of France’s National Front party—in an election speech in which she declared, “We have entered a new two-partyism. A two-partyism between two mutually exclusive conceptions that will from now on structure our political life. The cleavage no longer separates left and right, but globalists and patriots.”[42] In August 2020, President Trump described his guiding ethos thus: “We have rejected globalism and embraced patriotism.”[43]”
“Luckily, this binary position is mistaken in its basic assumption. Global cooperation and patriotism are not mutually exclusive. For patriotism isn’t about hating foreigners. It is about loving our compatriots. And there are many situations when, in order to take care of our compatriots, we need to cooperate with foreigners. COVID-19 provided us with one obvious example. Pandemics are global events, and without global cooperation it is hard to contain them, let alone prevent them. When a new virus or a mutant pathogen appears in one country, it puts all other countries in danger. Conversely, the biggest advantage of humans over pathogens is that we can cooperate in ways that pathogens cannot. Doctors in Germany and Brazil can alert one another to new dangers, give one “another good advice, and work together to discover better treatments.”
“These leaders should be reminded, however, that in the era of AI the alpha predator is likely to be AI.”
整本書觸動我的敘述，如上了。
最大的價值是開啟了很多個點線的話題，都值得看，應當想。
“Most Germans in 1933, for example, were not psychopaths. So why did they vote for Hitler?”
“Our problem, then, is a network problem.”“Even more specifically, it is an information problem.”
“As George Orwell famously put it, ignorance is strength.”
“In the twenty-first century, some new totalitarian regime may well succeed where Hitler and Stalin failed, creating an all-powerful network that could prevent future generations from even attempting to expose its lies and fictions.
“The naive view of information is perhaps most succinctly captured in Google’s mission statement “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google’s answer to Goethe’s warnings is that while a single apprentice pilfering his master’s secret spell book is likely to cause disaster, when a lot of apprentices are given free access to all the world’s information, they will not only create useful enchanted brooms but also learn to handle them wisely.”
“Can we trust computer algorithms to make wise decisions and create a better world? That’s a much bigger gamble than trusting an enchanted broom to fetch water. And it is more than just human lives we are gambling on. AI could alter the course not just of our species’ history but of the evolution of all life-forms.”
“Full-blown totalitarianism might have been dreamed about by the likes of the Qin, but its implementation had to wait for the development of modern technology.”
“Just as modern technology enabled large-scale democracy, it also made large-scale totalitarianism possible.”
“Humans have repeatedly claimed that certain things would forever remain out of reach for computers—be it playing chess, driving a car, or composing poetry—but “forever” turned out to be a handful of years.”
This position was unabashedly distilled in 2015 by Marine Le Pen—leader of France’s National Front party—in an election speech in which she declared, “We have entered a new two-partyism. A two-partyism between two mutually exclusive conceptions that will from now on structure our political life. The cleavage no longer separates left and right, but globalists and patriots.”[42] In August 2020, President Trump described his guiding ethos thus: “We have rejected globalism and embraced patriotism.”[43]”
“Luckily, this binary position is mistaken in its basic assumption. Global cooperation and patriotism are not mutually exclusive. For patriotism isn’t about hating foreigners. It is about loving our compatriots. And there are many situations when, in order to take care of our compatriots, we need to cooperate with foreigners. COVID-19 provided us with one obvious example. Pandemics are global events, and without global cooperation it is hard to contain them, let alone prevent them. When a new virus or a mutant pathogen appears in one country, it puts all other countries in danger. Conversely, the biggest advantage of humans over pathogens is that we can cooperate in ways that pathogens cannot. Doctors in Germany and Brazil can alert one another to new dangers, give one “another good advice, and work together to discover better treatments.”
“These leaders should be reminded, however, that in the era of AI the alpha predator is likely to be AI.”
整本書觸動我的敘述，如上了。
最大的價值是開啟了很多個點線的話題，都值得看，應當想。
但作者和這個時代，都沒有答案。
但，這世界，從猿人到智人到即將的硅人（未必是此刻人類），從成為群組組建國家迄今，哪裏真的有過什麼正確答案。
推薦原版版和臺譯本給學生。雖然作者多舉的是蘇聯俄羅斯，但很多字句，簡體字版本肯定還是會被刪，懶得確認了，相信文化部肯定會例行操作，這也是人類面對info，一直固有的腦力，或者說態度，或所謂選擇吧。無分中外。
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