To reify, v: consider an abstract concept to be real. Now the Scientist was more cunning than any Expert in the field which the Dean had made. And he said to the woman, “Has the Dean indeed said, ‘You shall not assume your theory is Reality’?” And the woman said to the Scientist, “We may say we approximate Reality with any model we like; but of making the claim our models and theories are Reality, the Dean has said, ‘You shall not not make this claim, nor shall you confuse AI with intelligence, lest you reify.’”
AI and the ‘Singularity’ rest on the conceit, started by Turing amongst others, that the human brain is a computer. It is not. Human intelligence is a manifestation of the mind-body complex system of complex systems. It is non-ergodic and cannot be reduced to Turing-Church calculable algorithms. Stochastic models, like Neural Networks, need a multi-variate distribution from which to ‘learn’. As non-ergodic, human intelligence, behaviour and language cannot be modelled stochastically or deterministically: True AI is impossible. Read ‘Why Machines Will Never Rule the World’ by Jonathan Landgrebe (AI programmer and entrepreneur ) and Barry Smith (Philosoper) for a full explanation.
Briggs spot on: these clowns want something else. My money on grifting the government to pay them to not do it. The list includes many a grifter.
PS the impossibility of modelling non-ergodic complex systems holds for the climate as well. God is smarter that we can ever be.
Methinks they doth protest o’er much. The “AI will kill us all” crowd are building the distracting “look a squirrel!” narrative. They will continue to program their AI programs with the outcomes they desire (total surveillance, monetary control, etc.) and when their malfeasance gains attention, they can claim “it’s not us, it’s the AI! We told you this would happen!”
. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
—Suarez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658"
Yet another chapter in the ongoing effort to convince themselves (and everybody else) that we are all just chips of wood drifting helplessly along this river of life and that we have no control over anything and thus cannot possibly accept, or even have, any responsibility for anything.
If everyone would just pay a little more attention to the things that are right in front of their noses like their families, their kids, their neighbors, and their communities, a lot of these cataclysmic forthcoming dooms, like AI, Global Warming, California, and TicToc would just go away.
🗨 I do not have emotions or beliefs 🗨 I don’t have the ability to evaluate the quality of literary works or make aesthetic judgments 🗨 I am not capable of lying as I do not have personal beliefs, intentions, or motivations 🗨 I am not capable of independent thought or decision-making 🗨 I do not have the ability to reason or think in the same way that a human would
"That comes from believing a model, and concluding that model is Reality."
Like "Covid," which is a CGI model, not a virus in that "viruses" as we have been indoctrinated into believing are not causative of disease nor are they transmissible between humans and/or other living beings. (Although Covid is certainly a mind virus.) As far as I am concerned, the germ theory model is the basis for the wayward wizards' control. Convince humans that they are filthy and stupid and can get each other sick, and you've got them all frightened and part of the death cult. They have simply extrapolated germ theory to AI theory, complete with "self-replication" and "loss of control" of its "intelligence," "power," and "growth." Like when that dude from the Imperial College of London said that millions of people in the U.K. alone would die from "Covid-19." Their predictions are always wildly off, by design, to frighten people into taking certain actions that will benefit the wayward wizards while causing harm to everyone else who falls in line with the fearmongering.
"There are real intelligences behind every “AI”, increasingly *malevolent* intelligences. That is worth worrying about." THIS! The psychopaths with power. Poisoners. Usurers. Murderers. The kunlangeta. We dare not allow them to continue to poison and rule us.
Apr 3, 2023·edited Apr 3, 2023Liked by William M Briggs
Excellent.
There seems to be a supernatural intelligence guiding the malevolent intelligences pushing this idea. How else to explain the West 's collective descent into unreality, hatred, and ugliness?
AI and the ‘Singularity’ rest on the conceit, started by Turing amongst others, that the human brain is a computer. It is not. Human intelligence is a manifestation of the mind-body complex system of complex systems. It is non-ergodic and cannot be reduced to Turing-Church calculable algorithms. Stochastic models, like Neural Networks, need a multi-variate distribution from which to ‘learn’. As non-ergodic, human intelligence, behaviour and language cannot be modelled stochastically or deterministically: True AI is impossible. Read ‘Why Machines Will Never Rule the World’ by Jonathan Landgrebe (AI programmer and entrepreneur ) and Barry Smith (Philosoper) for a full explanation.
Briggs spot on: these clowns want something else. My money on grifting the government to pay them to not do it. The list includes many a grifter.
PS the impossibility of modelling non-ergodic complex systems holds for the climate as well. God is smarter that we can ever be.
Yes! I would only add "mind-body-SPIRIT" complex to your analysis!
Cue 4 requisite E-qualifiers of human cognition: embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended. The dreaded AI overlord sports none ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Methinks they doth protest o’er much. The “AI will kill us all” crowd are building the distracting “look a squirrel!” narrative. They will continue to program their AI programs with the outcomes they desire (total surveillance, monetary control, etc.) and when their malfeasance gains attention, they can claim “it’s not us, it’s the AI! We told you this would happen!”
OK, got it!
I am worried. More weapons for evermore evil people who follow the science and apply the technology.
That descent into Hell can only get worse.
Maybe just throw in the towel now and avoid the worry.
BTW: How many will see God's car, Genesis, at the literary front of your analysis?
A short story by Borges:
"On Rigor In Science
. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
—Suarez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658"
Yet another chapter in the ongoing effort to convince themselves (and everybody else) that we are all just chips of wood drifting helplessly along this river of life and that we have no control over anything and thus cannot possibly accept, or even have, any responsibility for anything.
If everyone would just pay a little more attention to the things that are right in front of their noses like their families, their kids, their neighbors, and their communities, a lot of these cataclysmic forthcoming dooms, like AI, Global Warming, California, and TicToc would just go away.
💬 sad as it might be, he is too stupid to let live
...or taken from another angle: he is too clever to afford staying unwise 🤸
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Also, Niccolo Soldo’s recent quip befits the general op spirit ↓↓
🗨 the main “AI” which are taking jobs: Aliens and Immigrants 😏
Maybe AI's will be apathetic turds like the rest of us.
For starters, why not take chatGPT at its word? 😏
🗨 I do not have emotions or beliefs 🗨 I don’t have the ability to evaluate the quality of literary works or make aesthetic judgments 🗨 I am not capable of lying as I do not have personal beliefs, intentions, or motivations 🗨 I am not capable of independent thought or decision-making 🗨 I do not have the ability to reason or think in the same way that a human would
Perfect. Cross-posted.
Thanks.
No problem. Glad to have found your stack (and I have Jon to thank for that).
"That comes from believing a model, and concluding that model is Reality."
Like "Covid," which is a CGI model, not a virus in that "viruses" as we have been indoctrinated into believing are not causative of disease nor are they transmissible between humans and/or other living beings. (Although Covid is certainly a mind virus.) As far as I am concerned, the germ theory model is the basis for the wayward wizards' control. Convince humans that they are filthy and stupid and can get each other sick, and you've got them all frightened and part of the death cult. They have simply extrapolated germ theory to AI theory, complete with "self-replication" and "loss of control" of its "intelligence," "power," and "growth." Like when that dude from the Imperial College of London said that millions of people in the U.K. alone would die from "Covid-19." Their predictions are always wildly off, by design, to frighten people into taking certain actions that will benefit the wayward wizards while causing harm to everyone else who falls in line with the fearmongering.
DEVS was a TV series that addressed this deterministic stance in relation to AI and where it could go. Worth watching.
"There are real intelligences behind every “AI”, increasingly *malevolent* intelligences. That is worth worrying about." THIS! The psychopaths with power. Poisoners. Usurers. Murderers. The kunlangeta. We dare not allow them to continue to poison and rule us.
Excellent.
There seems to be a supernatural intelligence guiding the malevolent intelligences pushing this idea. How else to explain the West 's collective descent into unreality, hatred, and ugliness?
To witness the short-circuiting irl is a worthy spectacle indeed 😁 Ty for your clever prompt!