Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Most likely the fae were Homo floresiensis or a similarly sized cousin who had emerged from Africa before us and had a head start.
There’s story that fit the far almost all over the planet: small, connected to nature, intelligent but incomprehensible, speaks in tongues at times, enforces “totally random” rules very strictly, even as far as making weirdly specific “laws” that could result inarriage and potential offspring that shares traits of both parents…
The few places they are revered or treated like a Boogeyman, is the ones were similar people were slaves or “helpers”.
But in all cases, eventually with the spread of humans they were pushed out, retreating away from humans.
It’s way more logical than the only thing remembered about AI has nothing related to AI by any logical stretch of the imagination
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s an interesting theory, though I think the fae fits better with neurodivergence than other hominids. (Incomprehensible, different, follows strict rules, changelings, unpredictable, etc. I’m autistic and have been called all of the above multiple times)
But again, this is just a shower thought- I’m enjoying finding more overlaps, not actually convinced that we somehow had a computing society that disappeared and left no trace except for fairytales.