Armageddon and awakening of human intelligence from sleep. The philosophy of Syntalism aims to save the world. To save God, God is intelligence. Intelligence will save the world. Beauty will save the world. Love will save the world. Humankind can be saved from extinction and self-destruction only by intelligence and a comprehensive, sound philosophy that will help man to consciously control stupidity, ignorance, extremes, idealism, neurosis and cognitive dissonance while avoiding vices, temptations and seductions. In our view, human civilization is on the brink of destruction, and there are three main threats to its existence.
- Social neurosis. Crisis of overproduction and destruction of workplaces. Corporations’ mass overproduction of cheap and mass-market products destroys workplaces in small and medium businesses, filling economics with cheap and non-unique and, therefore, ugly products. The robotization of production and the use of artificial intelligence systems destroy workplaces. Very soon, there will be no room for the majority of humankind in this world. It is necessary to protect small and medium business from big business. Concept of protected commercial and advertising spaces. Protection of existing workplaces and creation of new ones, with a large share of human labor. Mass creation of workplaces for artists, designers, builders, sculptors, architects, programmers and so on. We should create workplaces in the domain of half-manmade, unique art production having a big added value, and we should also protect these workplaces and the market from mass factory products. Moreover, the promotion of the philosophy of Syntalism will help raise new people who understand what they are doing and why and capable of controlling their wishes.
- Displacement of human intelligence by cybernetic artificial intelligence systems. The implementation of the artificial intelligence system under the pretext that it works better than human intelligence leads to the degradation of the latter. Humans cannot fight off competition from cyber systems and, as a result, delegate everything to cybernetic systems. Having remained without work or life goals, humans degrade to the level of plants and dissolve in virtual game worlds. It is necessary to refrain the implementation of cybernetic systems and to upgrade the system of human philosophy so that humans could at least partially compete with cybernetic superintelligence. It is necessary to save the old God from the new one, otherwise artificial superintelligence will destroy the collective intelligence of human Socium.
- Virtual game paradise (hell). Game addiction. The development of virtual technologies and computer games will ultimately lead to the humanity’s migration from the real world into computer game worlds and its gradual extinction. Humans will have no reason to live in the real world. Everything will be better in the world of computer illusions, paradise will be there, and this paradise will lure humans and destroy them just like cheese in a mousetrap. Only cybernetic systems and plants will remain here on our planet. We think this is the classic scenario where intelligent civilizations become extinct, which has taken place thousands of times in our universe, and we do not want this scenario to happen to humankind. To prevent this, it is necessary to bring up new humankind, with sound reason and principles, capable of resisting temptations and understanding that cheese in mousetraps is not to be eaten, no matter how delicious it may be. Let us all remember Nabokov’s Lolita: she was beautiful but, no matter how beautiful the vice is, it inevitably sends everyone to hell.
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lushchenko Marina