Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - What is wrong with extinction?

The end of work and the emergence of the everlasting age of leisure in paradise when AI does all the work. Then government and corporations will have to pay us a living wage or else no one will have the legaL tender to buy their gadgets. To all according to their needs and from all according to their abilities. The law will wither away with the state as instruments of class domination, according to the Manifesto of the Communist Party, alluding to the Acts of the Apostles.

Who is afraid of the end of Western Civilization? Not I said the bird in Death and the King's Horseman, Gandhi said that it will be a good idea for the West to be civilized. Rodney refused to use the word civilization and preferred to talk about cultures. Diop asked if we are talking about civilization or barbarism? Go figure.

Biko

On Friday 8 August 2025 at 06:53:28 GMT-5, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

The ongoing conversation about AI, fascinating and cutting edge, is that human civilization, as we know it, will come to an end.

 

As a hypothetical, what's wrong with this? All previous civilizations have said this, which led to the idea of the rapture. The Bible states it, with frightening passages in the Book of Revelation. The Quran is even more explicit: The Hour. It will be preceded by three cosmic changes.

 

• Sun folding up: The sun will be rolled up, and its light will be extinguished.
• Stars falling: Stars will lose their light and fall from the sky.
• Oceans bursting: The oceans will overflow and merge. 

 

The way I see it, AI is secularizing ideas that have been with us since BC.

 

Suppose the world comes to an end, what really do we lose?

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