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Unlike basic needs (food, shelter and sex), our wants are not instinctual but instead fall under mimetic desire. We follow people who show us what is worth wanting.
René Girard’s Mimetic Theory Changed the Way I Looked at My Own Desires.
Mo Issa
So, as far as AI is concerned, we need to be aware of both dynamics: the forms of crisis under which AI emerges and for which it is seen as a potential solution, and the aspirations of elites to use AI as a way to maintain existing political and cultural privilege.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
We avoid because we do not want to be bodies like that. We do not want our bodies to participate in mass extinction. We do not want our bodies to be wrapped in garments made by other bodies that are degraded, abused, and worked to exhaustion. We do not want to ingest foods marred by memories of human and nonhuman suffering. We do not want the lands we live on to be stolen and haunted. We do not want the children we love to live in a world that is less alive, less wonderous, more frightening.
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