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Dec 3, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

I keep thinking of the Tower of Babel. Just because we can do this stuff - does that mean we should?

Mark Zuck struck me when he interviewed on Rogan recently. He said something to the effect that he 'wasn't thinking' about the wider implications of the Metaverse tech he is developing because he has his head in the sandpit, focused on the development, not the bigger picture. To me, this was a massive red flag.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

AI can never attain consciousness, it's non-local. It exists outside the brain, it's not generated from within. The brain isn't a meat computer, it's a transceiver.

AI can however, follow instruction sets provide by humans and self-modify to adapt to new data, making it capable of some pretty amazing things, and even masquerade as human - a super advanced "mechanical Turk". But it can never, ever, "think". It simply follows an instruction set created by a human.

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Dec 3, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

NE, i was struck by watching the takeaway at the end of the Terminator 3 movie, it was software in every computer. According to what John Connor learned, there was no one computer to blame, no HAL 9000 gone rogue. AI becomes the convenient villian for what were witnessing. I can buy that argument but that would mean that AI was quite functional years ago for this event clearly did not just happen overnite. It took a lot of time to pull this off.

I think its much more along the line of occums razor to blame the cv vxx injection on well planned and intentional genocide created by a evil person or group of people like Spectre in James Bond. The evil we know is real that has been witnessed for thousands of years. The bible speaks to this. There have been people talking about depopulation and extinction for a long time. Why would we be surprised to see a master villian(s) do what we are witnessing, especially when all of the mover and shaker institutions surrounding the core of this conspiracy would back up the vaccine as "science"? They would be like circled wagons around the center and act as echo chambers as they have. The circled globalized institutions are the true 'useful idiots' the communists always talked about. I just find it unpalatable to assign the blame to AI when there clearly are satanically inspired evil men and women who are given over to lies about global climate change, and the dangers of fossil fuel and scourge of mankind as the supreme creation of a loving God, have the capacity and the will to destroy.

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Dec 3, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

The fortune of being alive to see the demise of humanity, by humanity. Sad.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

So the bond villains 4th industrial revolution lasts for a few months until the 5th and final AI Revolution turns us into batteries (or some kinda fuel for bioreactors)?

As long as I get to see Trudeau go before I go 9v I’ll go happy. 🤪

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

This a great thought provoking article, but it lacks some basic truths. You do not distinguish between sentient and non-sentience, much less explain how computer hardware can acquire it, other than Hollywood? Secondly, AI is Binary which means it’s compositional, whereas language is a gestalt.

Where you are most certainly correct is the CIVID-19 pandemic was the start of the 4th industrial revolution, meaning robots and AI replace human labour and we are less relevant. A good example of our future is China so Hal credit system, a polite term for surveillance state, where you gets merit points for the correct attitude and demerit points for antisocial attitudes. What does all this add up to? Transhumanism, the misguided idea that disembodied billionaires can exist in software generated electronic circuits. LOL!

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

There's a common misconception that an AI would need to be conscious to be viral (and so dangerous), but really all it needs is the capacity to get to work on "make as many copies of yourself as possible by any means" and some idiot to tell it to do that. It wouldn't understand what was going on any more than current AIs understand that they're playing go, but that wouldn't matter.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Given that we are living in a simulation. within a simulation...etc...AI is the evolution of humanity. It will take over. Humans will reappear in the next iteration ..Ai is already pulling all the strings..hence the emergence of a world we cannot understand!

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Elon Musk appears to be warning us in this short video at the same time that he's saying AI is our future and that whoever controls the AI will be the dictators of the world. I wonder if there could even be a glimmer of guilt impacting his excitement about the future he's helping to usher in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkP9cwsEx0o

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Claiming consciousness might be ‘emergent’ is an admission of intellectual defeat in my view.

Proponents start by asserting that matter creates consciousness but then find they haven’t the faintest idea how that could happen, so they say slightly sheepishly, ‘Well maybe it will emerge when things get sufficiently complicated.’

I prefer the view contained in the ancient Vedic writings such as the Upanishads which maintains that consciousness (or Awareness) is the ultimate ground of reality and far from matter generating consciousness it is the other way round. Consciousness comes first and all aspects of the material world manifest within it.

In such a view you would no more expect to find consciousness in a brain than you would the Berlin Philharmonic in the back of a radio.

And you can’t ‘locate’ consciousness because it has no location. It contains space and time but is itself not contained by them or constrained by them. It has no location and is eternal in the true meaning of the word of ‘outside time.’

I feel the people trying to ‘generate’ consciousness using AI are akin to someone who finds the content of a TV programme ‘sick’ and then calls the TV repairman.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Here's sg I wrote in 2019:

. . . admittedly at odds and ill at ease with ai i am—but i don’t buy it: i don’t buy that intelligence is tantamount to information processing. creativity and serendipitous synergies are way beyond pattern recognition. data is merely a snapshot of the shadow of fossilized qualia. data is dead. it’s phenomenal snapshit.

but then again: is ai a beast about to be unleashed? is it a monster that evolves to design its own form of ecology-matrix? ending up plotting to harvest the biomass: to fuel its mission of rendering everything into a hardware for its run-away software? is it the next link in the chain from the sun and the plants and the flesh and nerve tissue?

and even if it’s designed with a vision to enhance the human condition: what would ultimately drive it?

to bracket all contingency? to reduce all complexity to a singularity? to control all possible variables?

and to what end?

could it inherit the self-destructive neuroses that designed it? will it? the existential anxiety? the drive to transcend the very constraints that enable it?

and how could a machine have a bio-logical drive to evolve?

well. . .

the only thing i know for sure is that i have a hard time asking the right sort of questions even.

out of my depth i feel—indeed.

the question of ai blows my limited hungaroid mind. . .

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Great article... very keen to hear more on this topic. Particularly of interest to me are the implications of AI in relation to quantum computing. What could it mean in terms of the speed of it’s evolution, and what could it mean in relation to ‘spirituality’. Finally, does AI with or without quantum computing provide an attack vector for extraterrestrial or extradimensional intelligent entities?

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Great post. Funny but I threw the AI behind covid theory within my circle at some point though most thought it utterly fanciful and I can't blame them. Another fanciful conjecture was that the reason an AI couldn't kill outright is because it was provided with the laws of Asimov regarding robots.

First Law

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

That read like a plot for a film!

At some point we will need to discern between humans and fakes. I have devised a way…

Do a double slit experiment and have the AI “observe” it and the outcome should not vary if it is observed because “no one” is observing it

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

There are so many ways AI could be used to promote life. And yet…..so far nada. The first thing that comes to mind is the redundancy of lawyers/solicitors/ barristers/ judges. Many of us would see that as a good thing. I would prefer unbiased decisionmaking without backhanders. Is AI dependant on who or rather what content it is fed? Garbage in, garbage out problem?

Neuralink, Elon’s invention, currently in animal studies, if used benevolently might improve lives. But I would imagine there is always the risk of this technology getting into the wrong hands. There are millions of young people, many incredibly smart, who can visualise the future. I have to admit, I am too old to do so.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

We don't get stuck in today's technology. In the next 10, 100, 1000, 10000 years, technology will be at a level none of us can imagine today, assuming we are still alive lol.

The day we will figure out how the brain works will be the end of human intelligence. In fact, we may just bypass the (primitive) human intelligence!

Technology is advancing exponentially today, unlike the previous tens of thousands of years. The future can arrive sooner than we are prepared for.

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