The Netflix documentary show proves that the American billionaire, like the erstwhile president of Poland, has a lot in common. Both are credited with considerable merits for the country and the world, both in their careers were helped by the invisible hand from behind the scenes (although Poles are much more affected), and yet both endure from a akin illness unit: an extraordinary mania of greatness and a messiah complex.
For the second time, the largest streaming service in the planet focuses its attention on American philantro-capitalist figures. After a alternatively monotonous production “What is in Bill Gates’ head?” this year, the task “What next?” saw the light of the day. The Future through Bill Gates' eyes.” The authors in this case are little focused on the protagonist's biography to look at what his outstanding head is doing today.
In addition to the world's favourite problems of self-appointed repairer, specified as climate change, pandemics or the threat of overcrowding, Bill Gates besides wants to save us from artificial intelligence and misinformation. In both fields, as he rushes to inform us already in the first minutes, he besides has his tangible merits.
"People from OpenAI asked me for advice [Sam Altman, Greg Brockman – ed.] I was active in the process of establishing a partnership with Microsoft to make their technology," he says, as he vividly recalling the celebrated memes with Wałęsa "and I tell him...". But even as large a visionary as Gates amazed the pace of improvement of generic artificial intelligence. reasoning that “he would have 2 years free to fight tuberculosis and malaria”, the appearance of the GPT Chat forced him to change his priorities. seemingly even he's only human.
Bill Gates besides showed off his physical form. To test the usefulness of AI's individual assistant, he asked for a set of exercises he could do in his own office. Next thing you know, the camera shows a 68-year-old doing push-ups with his hands on his desk.
In the show, the peans and laudations in honor of a billionaire are changing. "The full career was based on looking for innovations to come, capturing them and exploiting them", "There is no 1 better to discern", "Bill has thick skin. He does not care about his opinions about himself" – we can hear from the mouth of his acolytes of Gates Ventures.
The transmission of the series is clear: we are dealing with an outstanding unit, as if predestined to manage global-scale problems. But these ingrates, alternatively of appreciating everything they do for us, like to game theories and accuse him of quite a few ugly things.
Memes prohibited
Among the 7 episodes of the series, there is no second as biased and aggressive in its pronunciation as the 1 devoted to the subject of disinformation on the Internet. Although it begins innocently; with harmless memes or browser games with Gates in the lead role, at any point the fun ends. Conspiracy theories about a billionaire, although most sound ridiculous and origin laughter, are – as we learn from the show – peculiarly harmful.
“You gotta make a choice: either freedom of speech or the fight against harmful content,” 1 expert says. Ironically, the infamous Sanitary star Anthony Fauci is besides speaking on this subject. And nowhere is the fight against "disinformation" taking on the same rank as in the case of wellness crises; it is about saving lives. “What if there is simply a ten-fold more dangerous pandemic?” Gates rhetorically asks.
Of course, the show did not show even a slight reflection on the validity of lockdown policies and mass vaccinations. Instead, we have a fight of good against evil (the benefactors of humanity vs. anti-vaccinators) – and the laying of the ladle in the form of absurd theories about microchips in vaccines, lizards, ticks allergic to conventional meat...
“Anti-vaxxers” is accompanied by chemists, the MAGA movement or QAnon. Interestingly, terrorists from the muslim State appear next to them (although not directly). The method is simple: consider any uncertainty about authoritative communicative as a deadly danger and get free of online circulation under the pretext of acting in the social interest.
Although Gatesa is afraid that we do not have a systemic way of dealing with misinformation, he points out that "we will yet have laws and regulations on this problem." At this point, the European Parliament appears on the blocs, and Gates Ventures representatives announce that they have been following the most popular "conspiracy theories" since the beginning of the pandemic.
Are we expected to feel warned?
Tyranna of experts
The series reaffirms one more time in the already-exposed saying that in socialism, heroicly, problems not occurring in any another strategy are combated. The amazing inability of the left-wing American establishment to see the right sources of problems that frequently turn out to be their own prescriptions.
Avengers on "conspiracy theories" and "harmful misinformation" of the environment forget that it is frequently a reaction to the informed and realized global censorship of the information space. And society rebelled against tyranny of experts not due to the fact that she listened to Man-Bawola on the Internet, but due to the fact that hospitals for sick people, churches and cemeteries for the faithful were closed in the pandemic, lockdowns did any business, and for not taking the world's most popular preparation, 1 could say goodbye to work.
The situation is repeated present with respect to artificial intelligence. The harmful effects of the digital revolution do not seem to disturb the good moods of technological magnates. By speeding up the improvement of the AI at an incredible pace, they barely have the possible dramatic consequences for full societies. And erstwhile they speak, false Scientical-materialistic anthropology does not let us to see the right solutions.
For example, invited to the program, manager James Cameron states plainly – with the implementation of the AI is like with the first phases of dementia; excluded from the decision-making process people will first be angry, then they will rebel and then get depressed, due to the fact that they know that it will not be better. But alternatively of putting a man in the center again, technological visionaries convince that the AI will one more time come up with the meaning of life.
By the way, Gates himself was frightened of that perspective. He is horrified at the thought that AI will do much better than he himself to “save” the world, and he will have nothing but play Pickleball.
In the netflix series, at any point it is said, "how wonderful the planet would be if we could admit we were wrong." Indeed, the hero himself notes that his generation “has done many fantastic things, but we have passed on another damn mess”. Unfortunately, all he can do is throw work on his successors. “Hey young people, set fresh rules,” he encourages carelessly. But the young generation represents in the series the face of his daughter Phoebe, who as the highest of heroism recognizes the half-naked posing on Instagram in defence of the “right” to execution the unborn.
Peter Relich
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