Quote: (12-07-2016 04:03 PM)Mage Wrote:
Quote: (12-07-2016 07:34 AM)glugger Wrote:
Computers fail a lot less than humans though, CC.
I disagree.
This is a common technocrat argument to point out that humans are stupid, to make you disbelieve in your powers and make you to surrender your place to machines and control.
In terms of driving, I just duckduckgoed it and it seems that 20% (average number from various studies and reports) of all driving casualties come from drunk driving, 16 % come from other drugs. Many more probably come from technological addictions like smart phone using and similar.
The point is driving accidents could be dramatically reduced by at least 50% if only people were not addicted to alcohol/drugs/technology. I believe we could lessen the accidents even more if we took off 25% of population from antidepressants and and remove planned obsolescence which affects all cars both smart and dumb ones. All it takes is self discipline and spirit and it basically depends on the consciousness level of population.
This is why I believe the only real solution to world problems including driving is rising levels of consciousness and spirituality among human beings.
This is similar to how USA constitution stands - as John Adams put it without people maintaining the the sense, spirit and honesty - rights and freedoms given by constitution would fall with it.
This goes to all areas of life - want to reduce surveillance - create a healthy and sane society with natural gender roles where people are not going crazy and doing mass shootings in schools over rejection from females, create a healthy and sane society where people feel aversion to petty theft and and you can remove body scanners in shops and airports and reduce the amount of security cameras and technologies.
This is not utopian - we once had a society that functioned very well without security cameras and body scanners - because people were more sane, spiritual, religious, psychologically healthy and happy. But people can be even more conscious than that if only we would actively move to that direction instead of hoping from the next magic pill from science labs, that always induces new side effects and new problems.
Miserable people - addicted to drugs or alcohol, angry about rejections, entitled degenerates will be miserable no matter what technologies you invent.
If you fear big brother state you must raise the level of virtuous self discipline, spirituality and religiousness (the fake religion of Islam excluded) in society. Only such a society can avoid the destiny of Borg. A drugged, stressed, alienated atheist society is destined to turn into total control Matrix or annihilate itself.
These are all fine points, we should be wary of how we use technology. But to say that humans outperform in anything other than social situations or complex physical tasks is disingenuous at best.