Silicon Valley has its own religion; its home-grown cults.
Image from: Chris Michaels, Read ‘Sapiens’ and ‘Homo Deus’ to understand who we are, now.
Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari, professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at the conclusion of his book Homo Deus: asks, "What will happen to society, politics and daily life when non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves?”
Alphabet/Google, too have an end-times vision.
Google is not just a company.
Google is a system of the world.
George Gilder.
TL/DR
From “don’t be evil” to “the good censor”?
Is the Singurality is an eschaton fallacy?
From don’t be evil to the good censor?
Don’t be evil
Google has championed an open internet, & a free flow of ideas. Google even funded uProxy, a peer to peer gateway, to help journalists bypass internet censors.
The way we were.
Image source: Breitbart News
Evil
To be or not to be?
Around April or May, 2018, Google’s unofficial motto eliminated don’t be evil in Google’s employee code of conduct. Subsequently, Google updated the last line in its updated code of conduct, retaining don’t be evil.
And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
From Google’s code of conduct.
The Good Censor
In Google’s unofficial “The Good Censor,”
internal briefing,
Google, admits that it & other platforms,
while “control(ling)
the majority of online conversations
have “shift(ed)
towards “censorship”
in response to,
in Google’s opinion,
“unwelcome”
political events, worldwide.
Examples cited in include Trump
2016 election & Germany’s
Alternative for Deutschland (AfD).
Unmediated free speech to censorship & moderation.
Image source: Breitbart News
Disillusionment with free speech on the internet, according to Google.
Is the Singularity an Eschaton Fallacy?
The Singularity is immanentizing the eschatron.
eschaton
ˈɛskətɒn/
noun
THEOLOGY
noun: eschaton
the final event in the divine plan; the end of the world.
"the gift of eternal life at the eschaton"
Eschatology, overdimplified, is the study of end times.
Image from McNaughton Fine Art.
In the Biblical eschaton, when the Kingdom of Heaven is on established here on earth, the lion lies with the lamb.
6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted domestic animal together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed side by side, their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.
9 They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:6-9
Only God can architect the chronology of the end.
34 Truly I tell you, this generation (the whole multitude of people living at the same time,in a definite,given period) will not pass away till all these thingstaken together take place.
35 Sky and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
36 But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
37 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 24:34-37
The Singularity
[The Singularity is] a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies have become so advanced that humanity undergoes a dramatic and irreversible change.
The Singularity Is Near
a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Understanding the Singularity will alter our perspective on the significance of our past and the ramifications for our future.
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near.
Google: a system of the world?
Is the “good censor” a means for Google to implement its “system of the world”?
What this mean for you, today? And for your children, tomorrow?
What do you think?