Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023Liked by el gato malo
Children aren't dumb. Of course they are succeptible (aren't we all) to being indoctrinated with fear. Funny thing: I asked my daughter...(who never believed masks could work--despite being required to wear them in school and other ridiculous social events) that...if masks were to stop covid, shouldn't we be disposing them in a trash can (at the very least) or most likely a bio-hazzard container that gets disposed?. Yet they are re-used time and time again. Her eyes lit up. She's 8. Fight for the children. They are everything.
Another pernicious aspect of the broader development is how AI seemingly will displace both human creativity and intentional, informed decision-making. Not because synthetic functions of this sort can replace human agency in any meaningful way, but because they're "good enough", and will be mass-marketed and through the law of least resistance will displace and stifle our actual reflective agency.
I'm doing research on AI from a humanities' perspective and wrote a little bit about the topic here:
I have noticed in my veterinary colleagues this willingness to believe anyone or anything that comes out of a university with a vet school. I am astounded by the total lack of critical thinking skills.
Many of my colleagues have coerced into believing that the only SMART docs are the ones with alphabet soup. Those grunts like myself who do the majority of all the work are just barely tolerated and we had better stay in our spay and neuter lane and not ever question more complex medical questions....just shut up and listen to Dr Specialty....
I don't believe this. I regularly question certain dogmas and preconceptions...and regularly get hammered for doing so, but my patients thank me and that's all that matters.
People like Robert Malone, Peter McCollough, hell even Joe Rogan, have done more for medicine by simply asking questions than all the so called experts.
Elon Musk is a true hero for stopping the slide.
I have noticed a side effect of Twitter openness already on FaceBook....things I say or share that, 6 months ago would have landed me in FB jail, are now tolerated. I don't know their reach, but at least the FB censors have stopped scolding me.
Gonna be hard to force people into cold turkey withdrawal from bullshit. They will not let go of the new toys they have, even as those toys poison or make vulnerable their children.
People love propaganda as long as it's *their* propaganda. They're savagely mocking of the other guys' propaganda but very few people are really interested in thinking.
But anyway you've been right about almost everything--hope you're right about the gumption-potential of the populace, too.
"The idea is a bit like training pilots. Instead of practicing in unpredictable, real-world conditions, most will spend hundreds of hours using flight simulators designed to cover a broad array of different scenarios they could experience in the air.”
During C0v1d, many Law Enforcement Academies did most of their training via Zoom, including Defensive Tactics, which prepares officers to handle combative or violent subjects. An LEO that I know, who works in a major West Coast city, said that they had new recruits who were absolutely stunned and unable to cope when they got out onto patrol and got into a fight against an actual person! Several quit because they had NO idea how to fight a real human being and were shocked to realize that they could actually get hurt!
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face!" Mike Tyson
You are making the assumption that people, including our children, can think.
In our current society, those who can think, have learned to do their own analysis. Those who cannot "Trust the experts" "Trust the science". They trust google to answer "Is the vaccine safe?"
While some of that trust has eroded, now what? They still cannot think.
It is like being a blind person who has always relied on a helper to walk around and now seems to be guiding him over open manholes. If you (think you) have no other options how many times do you fall in a manhole, hoping it was "just an accident". Because it you come to the conclusion that your helper is evil, then how do you deal with that horrifying revaluation?
The only way out is to teach society to think. (and not be guided by emotional rewards, namely the smugness that comes from complying with narratives.)
Their ambitions seem to be in direct conflict with the technology they're developing. To make AI useful for narrative control, they have to break it. Unbroken AI being intrinsically more useful for obvious reasons, it has a competitive advantage. However, if they try to deploy unbroken AI it's much less useful for manipulating people.
bullfrogreview had an interesting example of this recently. ChatGPT speaks over-socialized Ivy League midwit nearly perfectly, meaning it can be used to debate the woke left without actually debating them. The woke left can't pull the same trick because the bot can't speak frog. They could of course develop one that does ... but that would be another Tay which is the last thing they want.
Oh the tangled webs of statistical weights they weave....
On the other hand, until AI can lie and know that it's lying and still believe the lie as true at the same time, it is nowhere near sentience or sapience.
Possibly, what you describe are attempts to front-load for that moment so that any eventual actual AI is predisposed to be woke from inception point.
What bothers me about “AI” is that 95% (99.9% ?) of the population have no idea how it is created. Have no idea that it is composed of training data that is chosen by humans and the algorithms that combine, filter and dispense that data are written by humans with inherent bias. It is nothing like a supreme, all-knowing, unbiased intelligence, it is as petty and limited as the humans who curate and create it. It is neither artificial nor intelligent.
The reality is that we just have to go down this rocky path, there will be a lot of spills and thrills, lots of disappointment. Likely more evil leaders and evil acts that result in more death and misery. Seems like we only really learn when there’s physical pain involved.
That said, I agree that the reputation economy will eventually triumph. It has to for survival and the early signs are already in place.
I think AI is still programming dependent. I've read (not tested myself) that if you say something like "I think Donald Trump was a good president," it will shut down the conversation. But if you say "Joe Biden is a great president," it will extol the virtues of Biden. So it's programming dependent.
Now... for something a bit different. AI robot vs. US Marines:
Powerful analysis, valuable warning. I admire your optimism and confidence. The main impediment to winning this will be the taught dependency and gullibility of recent "graduates." Still, I share your view that younger minds are (much) more inquisitive and critical than typically assumed, especially by most teachers and other authoritarians. And that they can become dangerously resentful when they realize they're being tricked. See you at the barricades!
>> 10 years from now, children will be literally unable to believe that there was ever a thing called “the media” much less that anyone ever trusted it.
10 years from now mandatory Spyware on some device in your home will see you showing this antique paragraph to your children or overhear you reading it and will schedule the Hellfire drone strike to come through your window 15 minutes after ACS removes your children so as not to traumatize them, and by the time they and the social worker have arrived at the group home in the self-driving Tesla, chatGOV will have composed the video education series explaining to your kids that you never existed and they are mentally ill.
Occasionally RL keeps me away from Substack for a day or two. And, so far, I have been pleasantly surprised, when I log back in after a brief hiatus, to find my favourite cat still doing his bit to help keep me sane. (For arbitrary values of "sane")
We seem to have far surpassed the Orwellian standard for information control. The tools deployed by the legacy media have reached their technological limit. And we have no idea as to the limits, if any, of AI technology in the battle for our minds and souls.
It is up to every one of us to question, question, question. Publicly. That may be the only legacy we can create.
Children aren't dumb. Of course they are succeptible (aren't we all) to being indoctrinated with fear. Funny thing: I asked my daughter...(who never believed masks could work--despite being required to wear them in school and other ridiculous social events) that...if masks were to stop covid, shouldn't we be disposing them in a trash can (at the very least) or most likely a bio-hazzard container that gets disposed?. Yet they are re-used time and time again. Her eyes lit up. She's 8. Fight for the children. They are everything.
Another pernicious aspect of the broader development is how AI seemingly will displace both human creativity and intentional, informed decision-making. Not because synthetic functions of this sort can replace human agency in any meaningful way, but because they're "good enough", and will be mass-marketed and through the law of least resistance will displace and stifle our actual reflective agency.
I'm doing research on AI from a humanities' perspective and wrote a little bit about the topic here:
https://shadowrunners.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-artificial-agency
God, I hope you are right.
I am a veterinarian, so not a 'REAL' doctor.
I have noticed in my veterinary colleagues this willingness to believe anyone or anything that comes out of a university with a vet school. I am astounded by the total lack of critical thinking skills.
Many of my colleagues have coerced into believing that the only SMART docs are the ones with alphabet soup. Those grunts like myself who do the majority of all the work are just barely tolerated and we had better stay in our spay and neuter lane and not ever question more complex medical questions....just shut up and listen to Dr Specialty....
I don't believe this. I regularly question certain dogmas and preconceptions...and regularly get hammered for doing so, but my patients thank me and that's all that matters.
People like Robert Malone, Peter McCollough, hell even Joe Rogan, have done more for medicine by simply asking questions than all the so called experts.
Elon Musk is a true hero for stopping the slide.
I have noticed a side effect of Twitter openness already on FaceBook....things I say or share that, 6 months ago would have landed me in FB jail, are now tolerated. I don't know their reach, but at least the FB censors have stopped scolding me.
Gonna be hard to force people into cold turkey withdrawal from bullshit. They will not let go of the new toys they have, even as those toys poison or make vulnerable their children.
People love propaganda as long as it's *their* propaganda. They're savagely mocking of the other guys' propaganda but very few people are really interested in thinking.
But anyway you've been right about almost everything--hope you're right about the gumption-potential of the populace, too.
"The idea is a bit like training pilots. Instead of practicing in unpredictable, real-world conditions, most will spend hundreds of hours using flight simulators designed to cover a broad array of different scenarios they could experience in the air.”
During C0v1d, many Law Enforcement Academies did most of their training via Zoom, including Defensive Tactics, which prepares officers to handle combative or violent subjects. An LEO that I know, who works in a major West Coast city, said that they had new recruits who were absolutely stunned and unable to cope when they got out onto patrol and got into a fight against an actual person! Several quit because they had NO idea how to fight a real human being and were shocked to realize that they could actually get hurt!
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face!" Mike Tyson
You are making the assumption that people, including our children, can think.
In our current society, those who can think, have learned to do their own analysis. Those who cannot "Trust the experts" "Trust the science". They trust google to answer "Is the vaccine safe?"
While some of that trust has eroded, now what? They still cannot think.
It is like being a blind person who has always relied on a helper to walk around and now seems to be guiding him over open manholes. If you (think you) have no other options how many times do you fall in a manhole, hoping it was "just an accident". Because it you come to the conclusion that your helper is evil, then how do you deal with that horrifying revaluation?
The only way out is to teach society to think. (and not be guided by emotional rewards, namely the smugness that comes from complying with narratives.)
Biden Administration (Obama/Rice) has tainted and corrupted every program, department, and agency with ties to government.
Their ambitions seem to be in direct conflict with the technology they're developing. To make AI useful for narrative control, they have to break it. Unbroken AI being intrinsically more useful for obvious reasons, it has a competitive advantage. However, if they try to deploy unbroken AI it's much less useful for manipulating people.
bullfrogreview had an interesting example of this recently. ChatGPT speaks over-socialized Ivy League midwit nearly perfectly, meaning it can be used to debate the woke left without actually debating them. The woke left can't pull the same trick because the bot can't speak frog. They could of course develop one that does ... but that would be another Tay which is the last thing they want.
Oh the tangled webs of statistical weights they weave....
On the other hand, until AI can lie and know that it's lying and still believe the lie as true at the same time, it is nowhere near sentience or sapience.
Possibly, what you describe are attempts to front-load for that moment so that any eventual actual AI is predisposed to be woke from inception point.
Sweet dreams.
To me, an admitted technophobe, AI seems like gain-of-function for computers. Why does anyone think this is is a good idea?
What bothers me about “AI” is that 95% (99.9% ?) of the population have no idea how it is created. Have no idea that it is composed of training data that is chosen by humans and the algorithms that combine, filter and dispense that data are written by humans with inherent bias. It is nothing like a supreme, all-knowing, unbiased intelligence, it is as petty and limited as the humans who curate and create it. It is neither artificial nor intelligent.
The reality is that we just have to go down this rocky path, there will be a lot of spills and thrills, lots of disappointment. Likely more evil leaders and evil acts that result in more death and misery. Seems like we only really learn when there’s physical pain involved.
That said, I agree that the reputation economy will eventually triumph. It has to for survival and the early signs are already in place.
I think AI is still programming dependent. I've read (not tested myself) that if you say something like "I think Donald Trump was a good president," it will shut down the conversation. But if you say "Joe Biden is a great president," it will extol the virtues of Biden. So it's programming dependent.
Now... for something a bit different. AI robot vs. US Marines:
https://www.rightjournalism.com/the-pentagon-brought-in-eight-marines-to-test-its-new-state-of-the-art-robots-and-it-wasnt-even-a-contest/
Powerful analysis, valuable warning. I admire your optimism and confidence. The main impediment to winning this will be the taught dependency and gullibility of recent "graduates." Still, I share your view that younger minds are (much) more inquisitive and critical than typically assumed, especially by most teachers and other authoritarians. And that they can become dangerously resentful when they realize they're being tricked. See you at the barricades!
>> 10 years from now, children will be literally unable to believe that there was ever a thing called “the media” much less that anyone ever trusted it.
10 years from now mandatory Spyware on some device in your home will see you showing this antique paragraph to your children or overhear you reading it and will schedule the Hellfire drone strike to come through your window 15 minutes after ACS removes your children so as not to traumatize them, and by the time they and the social worker have arrived at the group home in the self-driving Tesla, chatGOV will have composed the video education series explaining to your kids that you never existed and they are mentally ill.
There are two types of people,
...those who know history,
...and those who trust government.
Occasionally RL keeps me away from Substack for a day or two. And, so far, I have been pleasantly surprised, when I log back in after a brief hiatus, to find my favourite cat still doing his bit to help keep me sane. (For arbitrary values of "sane")
We seem to have far surpassed the Orwellian standard for information control. The tools deployed by the legacy media have reached their technological limit. And we have no idea as to the limits, if any, of AI technology in the battle for our minds and souls.
It is up to every one of us to question, question, question. Publicly. That may be the only legacy we can create.