Robin Hanson challenges critics to prove AI is uniquely worse than past media like television
Anders Sandberg argued AI's interactivity uniquely alters human cognition.
If we haven't much suppressed prior examples, nor even gotten close to doing so, what is reason to think we might greatly suppress more recent examples?
Robin Hanson@robinhansonNovels, telephone, radio, TV, Walkman, video games, social media, & AI - most all were said to be addictive, rot the brain, waste time, shorten attention, breed isolation, & supplant "real" connection. What is reason to think the latest are worse than prior examples?
@robinhanson I think one can make some McLuhanesque argument about the "intensity" of the experience, as well as whether the affordances of the thing favor certain outcomes. Effects are rarely as strong as pundits claim, but certainly they do tilt the mental landscape.
Robin Hanson@robinhansonNovels, telephone, radio, TV, Walkman, video games, social media, & AI - most all were said to be addictive, rot the brain, waste time, shorten attention, breed isolation, & supplant "real" connection. What is reason to think the latest are worse than prior examples?