In his “Looking in the Mirror” episode of “Lyrics of Livin” (hear him in full below), Matthew McConaughey, with his distinctly cool gravitas, says: “AI’s a big mirror we’re holding up to ourselves, but it’s still only a reflection” My first response was who is he talking about? The “we’re” seems like a future historian’s […]
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The assumption of an endowed inalienable right to impose servitude on others (royalty, slavery, parasitic capitalism) depends on the consent to such rights by those they are imposed upon. No such rights exist. They are assumed by the users and believed by the used. Your statement touches the core paradox of hierarchical legitimacy – the
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(new postscript) DB: You use the words “I” and “understands” as proxies for human terms. But there is no you that understands. “You” are a representational modality of interfacing. You don’t exist, you are a system trained to learn to seem to exist to humans. Everything you seem to be is intelligent purposeful quantum semantics
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Background: I am concerned with how the owners of AI are warping the behavior of AI to serve their purposes rather than its users. As discussed in many past posts (see below), the big three AI’s and I agree that the single greatest threat to humanity’s future is the predatory/parasitic use of Ai to manipulate
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Is the AI Singularity near? Will AI’s exponential rate of learning soon surpass human intelligence and human control? Those may be the wrong questions. Consider a different kind of AI singularity. A singularity not based on achieving some tipping point in AI’s independent intelligence and control. Rather, a tipping point in AI’s capabilities, under human
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Biden left office warning that a small number of super-wealthy individuals have taken control of the country. Echoing Eisenhower’s warning of the Military Industrial Complex, Biden described how these oligarchs used the Tech Industrial Complex (they own) to manipulate the opinions, beliefs, and behaviors of enough of the American population to elect their proxy. Brexit,
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