A writer I am talking to over email about necessary delusions and cruel men tells me this morning that he was talking to “some guy who designs AI for Uber’s self-driving cars.” This guy straight from Silicon Valley thinks humans will be replaced by machines and Geoff disagrees, convinced that so much of human personality is driven by the sexual impulse. What we see reflected in porn, he says, has so much to do with dominance, submission, subjugating others for service, or debasing ourselves. He makes the case that the impulse to be mean is fundamentally an erotic one, and concludes that this is a level of psychoanalytic complexity that machines, really, will never make use of.¹
001: Psychosexual Machines
001: Psychosexual Machines
001: Psychosexual Machines
A writer I am talking to over email about necessary delusions and cruel men tells me this morning that he was talking to “some guy who designs AI for Uber’s self-driving cars.” This guy straight from Silicon Valley thinks humans will be replaced by machines and Geoff disagrees, convinced that so much of human personality is driven by the sexual impulse. What we see reflected in porn, he says, has so much to do with dominance, submission, subjugating others for service, or debasing ourselves. He makes the case that the impulse to be mean is fundamentally an erotic one, and concludes that this is a level of psychoanalytic complexity that machines, really, will never make use of.¹