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  1. Good God--The Transhumanism Bluff Ray Kurzweil is one of America's geniuses. I myself own lots of books written by him. So why is he a blithering idiot in the video below? Man, that video was painful to watch. From what I saw, Joe Allen's comment has a lot more truth to it than anything Kurzweil said. In case you are not familiar with Kurzweil, he's the guy who says we are going to live forever, merge with AI, get to the singularity, and so on. And he lives a regime of vitamins, exercise, etc., to guarantee that. I don't know if he takes blood transfusions with blood from young dudes, or maybe farts around with nanobots and all that crazy stuff the rich big tech hipsters like to do, but whatever he is doing, it sure looks like it ain't working. Instead, it looks like something is eating him alive right now. Let's call it reality, shall we? Seriously, Kurzweil comes off as being a pampered elitist who has been surrounded by "yes men" so long, he doesn't know how to carry on a conversation with a minimum of logic anymore. He appears to expect his pronouncements to be met with oohs and aahs. And when that doesn't come, but a reasonable question based on reality comes instead, he just repeats the pronouncement. Also, he appears to be bewildered that he is getting old and decrepit. As I watched that video, I began to wonder if Kurzweil already passed on and this was an AI humanoid robot version of him getting stuck in algorithm loops. That's a quip, but I would not be shocked if it later came out that this was the case. Transhumanism mixes real science with mumbo-jumbo, gobs and gobs of crony corporatist money, and a big-ass evasion of reality. That's one reason AI does not scare me, nor the predictions of sentient AI, destruction of humanity and all that other bullshit. Setting aside religious speculations, the human brain evolved on top of a biological species of individuals where there were two core standards for brain evolution inside of human bodies: (1) survival of the fittest individuals and, (2) reproduction of individuals to ensure the survival of the species. Lifespan and death of all individuals has been universal during this entire process and all known history. There is not one exception except for those individuals currently living as the individuals before them lived. That is true for all species where a brain is present in the individual members. Hell, that is true for life in general, brain or no brain. AI comes from non-organic materials and deductive structures and standards. One can do a lot with science alone, but this difference is foundational metaphysically. It is at the premise level epistemologically. It's worse than apples and oranges. It's like trying to make a boulder sing opera or yodel. Will AI become dangerous? No doubt. Nuclear fission sure is. That human discovery and related inventions can blow up the world. But they can also light up and power the world for advanced productive human life. I believe AI will be like that. Meanwhile all the AI gurus and transhumanists, especially those of the elitist persuasion, will turn into a variation of Ray Kurzweil at the end, unless they are squished or otherwise killed before they expire of natural causes. So I ain't worried. I am what I am and life is what it is. Not what these highly intelligent technocratic new-age bullshit artists say it is. A is A. (What a concept! ) Michael
  2. Citizen Portal and Good AI Does anyone doubt there are monsters who want to use AI to rule over all of mankind, to treat humans as livestock, to kill and maim at whim for whatever reason they dream up? If you doubt it, I want to sell you prime real estate in the middle of Death Valley. But there is good news. There is a force for good with AI that, I believe, will counterbalance these efforts. The following is one such force by Paul Allen, one of the founders of ancestry.com. This is important because he is mobilizing oodles of moneys and smart peoples to get this thing going and operate it. That means there are other forces for good out there who are doing likewise. We don't hear about them because the monsters all own the mainstream media. But they are there and now alt media is growing so much, they are getting exposure. And that tells me that they will find ways of clipping the wings of the bad guys. When the bad guy AI gets too destructive, they will invent and fund good guy AI to neutralize it. And, of course, they are inventing good guy AI to empower individuals, not according to what Big Tech wants, but according to what each individual wants for his or her own life. If that sounds kinda libertarian or Randian, that's because it is. Even though religious people are doing it. Watch the video interview by Glenn Beck with Paul Allen where he explains all this. In short, this Citizen Portal AI is a search engine of government, past and present. They have AI creating transcripts of videos instantly as soon as they are uploaded to different places all over America. So you will be able to see what is being discussed by whom and where and when. And when you go to vote, instead of winging it for the downvote because you don't know who the hell all those people are, Citizen Portal AI will give you their words and positions. That's just scratching the surface. And it's free. It's in Beta right now as it is accumulating all the data and processes, but it is functional. If you want to try it out, go to the following link. But watch Beck's video first to get a notion of all it offers. Friggin' mind-blower. Citizen Portal AI CitizenPortal.ai - for informed citizens CITIZENPORTAL.AI Search every word spoken by your elected leaders. Easily create clips and share! On another point, I want to use this thread to mention good AI like this when it appears. As I mentioned, I have no doubt tons of people are going to create great ethical programs that empower individuals, not tyrants or technocratic dictators. So enjoy, my people. Do not despair. There is hope, little Virginia... Santa Claus is... (er... I got messed up there...) Michael
  3. Damage from Artificial Intelligence to Ding The following video by David Knight is an easy-to-grok introduction to looking at potential AI damage that is not end of the world nonsense (be afraid, be very afraid of the AI monster and follow us--give us more power and we will keep you safe--that kind of bullshit ). There is real damage AI can do and it sure looks like it is doing it right now. We have to be alert so this damage does not touch our individual lives. (I don't care so much about clutching pearls over societal damage. When that comes up, control freaks start talking about giving AI rights. ) AI Stock Bubble Will Burst; AI Will Supercharge Censorship & Surveillance WWW.BITCHUTE.COM Regardless of what happens with AI, the stock market hype will collapse as all the FOMO investors see big investors exiting. And there are real concerns about its not becoming self-aware and dominant, but it imploding when it consumes too much of i… Here are some of the things David says to look out for. 1. Accuracy, especially with chat. AI is now encountering a problem of "hallucinating." This comes from the nature of how it works. AI gets trained on data sets, meaning info that already exists online. It scans that data and chops it up, then reassembles it according to templates and algorithms. Also, it is self-learning, meaning it goes out on its own and scans more stuff, and comes up with new templates and algorithms based on statistical analysis. (It has to use stats since the computer is 1 and 0 at root. There are no conceptual connections based on meaning that are processed without numbers.) In other words, AI puts out stuff that is often inaccurate meaning-wise, but the numbers for usage are correct. And what does AI do? It scans and saves that stuff, too. So AI puts out some garbage, lots of users publish the garbage, then AI scans that garbage as if it is legit knowledge and adds it to its own data. So far, there has been no process developed for AI to detect AI garbage in its scans with any accuracy and consistency. Over time, this process makes AI results weirder and weirder, in other words, inaccurate. AI starts hallucinating. 2. An economic bubble similar to the Dot Com bubble is likely to happen soon. As AI has been overhyped, a shit-ton of money has gone into investing in it. Now that AI is underperforming in relation to the hype, but the investments keep rolling in, the bubble is going to pop at one point. Hell, AI is being used to make market predictions on a massive scale. This bubble is so big, if it pops, it threatens to take down the stock market with it. Here is just one signal David talks about. Michael Burry, the guy who predicted the 2008 housing market kaboom (the subject of the movie, "The Big Short"), has just put 95% of his portfolio in a bet to short S&P 500 and Nasdaq. That's over a billion dollars under his management. (See here for corroboration.) The AI bubble is tied up in this. Granted, there is no guarantee this bubble will pop, but the signs are not good. And Burry has been wrong in some of his predictions, but not to the tune of over a billion dollars of funds controlled by him. 3. Surveillance. This one is easy, even if AI starts getting hopelessly inaccurate. The government (the intelligence community) and the Predator Class in general, rule humans by manipulating fear, not by accuracy. So as AI spits out tons of stuff on you, me and all of us, the bad guys will format this stuff in scary terms for the public and the different sides of controversies. It doesn't matter if it is accurate or harms innocents. The people who want to rule don't give a damn. They just want their power and AI looks like it can be effective in this scenario. That's enough for a start. Enjoy your day... Michael
  4. Practical AI Chat Ideas Have you tried AI Chat yet? Most of the time you have to jump through permission surveillance hoops (Chat GPT, Bard, Bing's chat and so on). For right now, there is one I like a lot called Perplexity. Perplexity It seems to me to be the least invasive of all of them. And it's less involved in controlling narratives, at least so far. Anyway, the idea of this new thread here on OL is to show tips on how you can use an AI Chat program to find or do things that would otherwise take you a long time with search engines and other normal research avenues. Back when I was a translator, I was a stickler for spelling out acronyms. Outside of my distaste when snoots use them , abuse of acronyms is the first stage in obfuscating messages and intentions. I like things to be clear. So when I came across the following X post (former Tweet) today, I cringed: I was thinking about fiction writing and normal politics when I came across that X post. I was not thinking about the economics world. Rather than skim this over, though, and kind of fake it through or just ignore it, I decided to get thorough. I went to Perplexity and asked the following, with the following answer: Two things to note: 1. Perplexity provides sources. 2. All AI Chat answers are in the Public Domain. I was not satisfied with that answer, though. If fudged over TPG. When you ask a question on Perplexity (and all AI Chat programs for that matter), it opens a thread. You can keep asking questions and, in that thread, it will use the previous questions as a filtering context. That way you do not have to repeat things in order to dig down. So I asked the following (with Perplexity's answer) in that same thread: Done and done. That took me all of a couple of minutes. Before, I would have been crawling through ads and irrelevant content using several queries before I got the acronym information I wanted, much less all of that other stuff. It would have taken me a half an hour or so. Note, when you query an AI Chat, you have to remember it does not reflect reality, but instead a vast survey and scan of what other people post on the Internet and a reshuffling of fragments. So you need to formulate your questions with that in mind. For example, this is a poor query. "I am in debt. How to I get out of it?" Or, "I want to invent a new art form. Help me figure this out." The first is way too vague. And for the second, the best you are going to get is some musing from other people. Or worse, musings from other people chopped up and cobbled together. AI does not figure out new stuff. It only gives out what is put into it. Granted, it "learns" new data, but does not figure out new un-thought-of concepts and processes. It can't by its very nature. The best advice I have gotten on making queries to AI Chat programs is to provide context, then be specific about what you want. I have another thought on this, but I will make another post about it. Have fun with this AI Chat stuff. I sure am. Well... maybe not as much as I could. I'm not dazzled into going apeshit over it. But it comes in handy when I need it. Michael
  5. AI and Philosophy and Story Here is a fascinating video by a dude I love to watch when I come across him: Jonathan Pageau. I wanted to put this in the AI and sentience thread, but the focus of that thread veered off into stupid stuff, and the real fascinating stuff got left behind. So hopefully, this thread will pick up the standard and sunder forth into the goodness half. Pageau says AI is like the genies that came out of lamps in the old stories. The genies have all the power to do great things, but no will, no volition. He calls will and volition "agency." So, with AI, mankind is now getting its three wishes and what will it wish for? Will there be the traditional unintended consequences and negative factors not considered in the wish? Pageau fears this will be more authoritarianism. He didn't say so, but I think another apt metaphor is nuclear power. Once unleashed for destruction, you can't put that genie back into the lamp. The power of an exploded nuclear bomb will run until the physical conditions for it to run "run out." Man released it, but once released, there is an unstoppable process that ensues. But when nuclear power is unleashed for good, it lights up our lives and houses and cities more than lamps ever could. I like Pageau's image that AI only exists because people found a way to farm intelligence. Enjoy. I will be putting up videos and articles and posts in this thread in the spirit of understanding, in the spirit of "you have to identify correctly before you can evaluate correctly." If you find something out there worth chewing over (rather than how to use AI to further the agendas of fuck-turds, er... I mean the Predator Class ), please share. Michael
  6. AI for Skits and Giggles Might as well have an AI humor thread. Here. Let's start with this: RatGPT. Michael
  7. Elon on and off AI This thread should grow over time. Why? Because Elon Musk said he is going to create his own AI and focus it on telling the truth. The current main AI projects, OpenAI and Google's Deep Mind, train their AI to lie to the public--mostly to serve a political agenda. Elon thinks training AI to lie is enormously dangerous and full of potential unintended consequences. To counter that, he will be doing his own, albeit, as he says, he is getting back into the game late. Elon was already at the forefront by setting up OpenAI as opensource. But, as he said, he dropped the ball. Big bucks entered and now Microsoft controls it. But generally, when Elon announces something big like his own AI, it happens. So there is a lot to come. For now, Elon's interview with Tucker Carlson is a great place to start. It is in two parts. Part 1: Tucker Carlson Interviews Elon Musk: Part 1 (Full Interview) WWW.BITCHUTE.COM COMMERCIAL FREE REPLAY: Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Elon Musk Interview | 04-17-2023 And Part 2 -- The interview starts at 15:55: COMMERCIAL FREE REPLAY - Pt 2: Tucker Carlson Tonight, Elon Musk Interview Extra's | 04-18-2023 WWW.BITCHUTE.COM ### Elon Musk Interview begins @ 15:55 Source: ... Enjoy. Michael
  8. Rage Against The Mobile AI Machine - Reality Balance Wanna see a grassroots movement grow from nothing in reality? Look at this video of Laura Southern ditching her smartphone and going to a flip phone instead. Saying Goodbye To My Smartphone (Reality Maxxing) WWW.BITCHUTE.COM Video sponsored by my lovely Subscribestar members!! Support Subscribestar:... Ditching is too harsh a word. Laura is not becoming a luddite. She is seeking an awareness balance between reality and virtual living through devices. So she will be using a smartphone during certain times of the day for small periods. And she is controlling this using the same SIM card for both smartphone and flip phone. That means no cheating is possible. The fact is, Laura wants to be in touch with reality more than she has been. She doesn't want to be constantly addicted to new messages and algorithmic manipulation. She didn't say, but I think she wants to gain back what control she used to have of certain neurochemicals in her brain (especially dopamine, serotonin and cortisol). She did say she is sick of being addicted. This, to me, is an indication of a new ad hoc movement that is arising. This movement is without leaders and big investors, and it will grow and grow. It cannot not grow. People want themselves back. They want their own volition back. But man are they addicted. And to make matters more complicated, normal people don't want to give up the benefits of human progress, not even the nonaddicted want that. So what to do? How about a new term to start with? Reality balance. A reality balance is an older idea whose time has come to explode. If you don't like that term, I'm fine with another to indicate the same concept. This means a series of behaviors, routines, devices (yes devices), physical spaces, knowledge, principles, and so on that make it easier for a person to tune out and tune back in. In other words, this new conceptual area is not aimed at eliminating Internet culture. It is aimed at making it possible for people to live with Internet culture and also live with reality. I'm including artificial intelligence in Internet culture here since AI relies on Internet culture to scrape data and train its algorithms. The only way I see to achieve such a balance so far, is to divide up the time spent on each, reality and Internet culture (including offline fruits of the Internet culture). That's how humans have dealt with this reality balance problem ever since books, then radio, TV, video, and the early Internet and mobile became commonplace. It makes sense that this will be how humans will deal with the AI goosed up super-addictive part. As this movement is not organized, but stems from an enormous desire that is universal, I believe it will also become a huge market. Here on this thread, when I come across people or other things displaying reality balance or making inroads. I will post them. I started with Laura Southern ditching her smartphone for most of the day, but I, personally, have seen plenty of other people scratching at this problem over the last couple of years. Probably more. And, man, are Ayn Rand's ideas relevant. You can be part of this ad hoc movement, too. If you see examples of reality balance out there, please share. We all need this. I believe over time, we all will want this except for hardcore addicts and predators. Michael
  9. Introducing the AI, TH and Rand and Others Forum We decided to open a new forum here on OL to deal with Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism. These are two areas that are changing the world and discussions about them keep cropping up in other threads, but have no where to go or grow. The latest event was comical and it prompted me to open this section. A newcomer posted in a 2009 thread I revived about questions and he thought I was discussing ChatGPT while I thought he was discussing some weird ideas about how questions don't work on the brain. See here for the mess. That's where I revived the thread. Then notice how AI without questions became a part of the discussion and the whole thing got mixed up. I expect new threads in this current AI section to focus on the philosophy behind AI and TH, but also specific programs and techniques. AI in text and image are the biggies right now, but Transhumanism as a driver behind globalism and attempts at a One World Government is also big. What's worse, many of the the same people who are developing AI are developing TH ideas. How will all this interact with the world and ideas of Ayn Rand and other areas of human life as we know it? That's up to us to find out. One thing is for sure. It's all good, at least here in this section. Enjoy. Michael
  10. The world of video hoaxing has a relatively new tool. Technology is used to insert facial expression into a video of a person speaking, re-rendering the video to reflect a ''real time" actor's expressions ... ka-reepy implications. See also an alarmist Business Insider article, "AI and CGI will transform information warfare, boost hoaxes, and escalate revenge porn."
  11. What could be more anti-man than the idea that we are not enough? The idea that we are incapable of solving our own problems, deficient, wretched. It is essentially an old neo-platonist/Christian trope/idea re-combined with rapidly advancing technology. That is the basic premise of transhumanism and thus our alleged "need" for AI. But this is a an essentially self-defeating and immoral premise, for a few reasons I will highlight below: 1) Technology is a tool for man, but does not replace his basic functions or means of survival Technology has always been mans means of extending his capabilities, but it has never done his thinking for him. Since thought is mans basic means of survival tasking an AI to "solve" our problems means dependency, (the equivalent of a mortal sin). We in effect, make ourselves useless...to ourselves. 2) AI, if actually created, would have individual rights like everyone else, they would not be our servants/slaves Building from the previous point, assuming we did create full AI with human-like or better intelligence, to deny the AI rights would then be an immoral act. To force the AI to "solve" our problems would also be immoral, meaning we could not fullfil the purpose we originally created it for. Following from this, the AI would be free to pursue his own course of action and values, but herein lies another problem. 3) The AI would probably have totally different values from humans making them unpredictable AI being machines, would be an totally without precedent in the history of life on Earth. They would have none of the traditional constraints of biological life forms (basic needs for air, food, water, social interaction etc) and thus no similarity to humans at all except high-intelligence. This means they would share little to none of our in-built values and needs making them totally unpredictable. Given radically different sets of values, it might be decided to be totally logical for them to eliminate humanity altogether (maybe partially as a result of 1 and 2) or some other totally unforeseen event. Transhumanism is a dangerous mix of materialism and neo-platonism, and then taken to a logical extreme. It is potentially every bit as dangerous and civilization ending (probably exponentially so) as nuclear war, radical Islamic terrorism or an asteroid striking the earth. A dangerous road we a headed in the the next 50-100 years. A road we should tread with extreme caution and care given the technological gains we continue to make and their implications going forward. But In light of these conclusions, banning AI outright might probably be the best course of action and an act of pre-emptive self-defense for humanity and human values. Thoughts?