Thread by @dw2

"As we move towards a future defined by artificial intelligence, we must make a choice: will we accept machine control of human beings, or resist it?" Watch live as @paulmasonnews discusses ideas from #ClearBrightFuture at #RSAFuture at 1pm next Thursday thersa.org/events/2019/05…

"How to Future-Proof Humanity": This is being broadcast live from 1pm UK time today, #ClearBrightFuture at #RSAFuture, on

"We live in an age of technological euphoria and geopolitical doom. And both of these emotions are justified" - @paulmasonnews at #RSAfuture

If we fear humanity being controlled by an AI robot we are obliged to obey, shouldn't we also fear humanity being controlled by the machine of the market? - @paulmasonnews at #RSAfuture

We're seeing a temporary alliance of the elite and the mob. The elite wants chaos, from which it can profit. The mob wants the ability to roll back history, even at the price of destruction - @paulmasonnews at #RSAfuture

In an age when the elites and their supporters in the mob are increasingly dehumanising more and more of their perceived enemies, it's especially important to mount a radical defence of the human - @paulmasonnews at #RSAfuture

A radical defence of the human needs a theory of the human. Marx used to laugh out loud at discussions of morality, but we now, more than ever, need a theory of "what is a good society" - @paulmasonnews at #RSAfuture

By the way, my own theory of the good society, and of the potentially transcendent future for humans, is "Sustainable Superabundance" #RSAfuture transpolitica.org/projects/abund…

Isn't a persistent problem with utopian projects such as Marxism, that individual people are too flawed to be able to flourish inside the envisioned utopia? @RSAMatthew challenges @paulmasonnews at #RSAfuture by referring to Christianity's observations about human sinfulness

That critique has a lot of wisdom in my view. Merely giving people more power, more freedom, more information, or more intelligence, is no route to a better world. #RSAfuture What's needed, as well, is better emotional intelligence - an argument I make in transpolitica.org/projects/abund…