Just wanted to share this with you all.
Although it's a very brief clip from a typically bullshit source that is THE PRIMARY TOOL of subversion and lies in the entirety of the media landscape, and though it is coming from a two-bit comedian who wasn't good enough to make it in actual comedy and has to use a news station to run a hybrid vehicle for his jokes like a pair of giant crutches.... this rang in my head like a bell for its clarity of vision and thought process.
He has pointed out the most functionally broken piece of our entire system in fact: this goes A LOT further than artificial intelligence.
The problem is not human bandwidth, as Musk has opined about previously. Not yet.
The problem is not the awesome power of the technology, as others have stated to be the primary reason for us to be fearful of its arrival.
The problem is so ancient that it is practically timeless. It was the priests and then the teachers during the time of the printing presses. America itself was actually created to battle those forces, as McCullough noted, America was the only major nation founded during the Enlightenment, when books and black ink form fitted to printed typeface were at the pinnacle of information and information transfer.
A quick treatment on consciousness. A.I. will never become MORE than just another tool in the toolkit of man to my thinking. Despite how they love to CLAIM it could or already HAS achieved consciousness or can replicate it so closely as to be indistinguishable from our own, we cannot measure or define consciousness TRULY to begin with. In thousands of years of medicine, no test has yet been invented that can properly and universally categorize the feeling of PAIN. One day, perhaps even soon, we could potentially measure and view in real time the areas of the body, muscles, nerves and even neurons that are activated down to the precise number during an individual's response to a painful stimuli.
That still DOES NOT provide a meaningful answer to the question of how much pain that person feels. Pain, pleasure, and the aversion from and attraction to both are the determinants of consciousness: you can add stimuli and measure stimuli response ALL YOU LIKE in its physical aspect. Pain requires having consciousness enough to FEEL and even the EXACT SAME stimuli down to the number or nerve endings will NEVER give two different people the EXACT same feeling of pain, even if they were identical twins or a person and their clone. Why? Because within the feelings of BOTH pain and pleasure, at even their immediacy of onset, the ENTIRE histological imprint of the subject's life experiences and responses to every individual event of both that specific amount nerve firing AND the endless number of concurrent variables at that second of life, setting and time which gave way to an individualized FEELING and subsequent RESPONSE are being captured, in what we know and refer to as FEELING PAIN. Its factual that no matter how similarly you administer the stimuli and no matter how much you can try to align EVERY LAST variable to synchronize, even if you put every single pain event from an individuals birth into congruity like that with a genetically identical version, the pain response would never be exactly the same twice.
Pain and pleasure are the stimuli and the response, multiplied by the sum total of EVERY such feeling and response throughout the lifetime and then taken to that equation's first derivative using the individuals subsequent introspection and memories of all those types of events and how his or her responses are perceived to themselves socially and in isolation. Its complicated and never the same twice. Consciousness should be looked upon in the same way I think. We cannot imbue machines with 21 grams of spirit; we are not machines ourselves, reproducing asexually like the aphid; the dust of that inexorable essence of the universe is what separates us from the creatures and similarly our inexhaustible will to discover that unknowable periodic element is what untethered us from God and makes him beyond what we can fathom even as we seek him. The robot is just another way we search for his glory and fall short in our human fallibility.
Next up. The Second Information Age and consequently the latest major bend in the road for humanity is what's at hand now in our lifetimes. First the advent of computers and with it the reduction of the physical space needed to store and access large amounts of information or data.
You can compare this to the outmoded scribes who so eloquently created the earliest Bibles - to now a machine created to ease that same process and speed it up. This changed things significantly, sure, but it did not increase literacy or provide inclusive access to information for the commoner living during the Middle Ages.
The Internet then is a Guttenberg Bible - made by a madman who would provide a means for radical change, providing a channel through which information dissemination was possibly accessible to the unwashed hordes. It was once illegal to even have a BIBLE in your posession if you were not a man of the cloth!
And so other radically inclined sorts of folk could actually get their hands on a Bible, now that we could make enough of them, and if by some rare chance they had become literate (usually through very unorthodox circumstances) they could now teach others to read their Bibles and EVEN OTHER BOOKS AND SCROLLS!
Why own a book if you couldn't read it? What sort of blasphemer would OFFEND GOD by presuming to know the Holy word MORE DEEPLY than the orators of the church? That was heresy, surely.
But it was already a flood and no covenant of Popes and Kings could stop the rushing wave. Inquisitions be damned, torture us and murder us in the most exquisite ways you like, the people would NOT be dissuaded from this singular beacon of light.
Truth. Learning. Education.
What eventually becomes the Protestants and a hundred more sectarianist branches on the tree of Christiandom, began as something simple, the most meager and humble desires in the beating hearts of men: to one day see their children speak so beautifully as those cloaks at the podium of their church.
Why, if they could do that, they could know God better. Perhaps armor themselves against the Devil. Perhaps even have a life that wasn't filled with scrounging and toil, as their mother and I had.
Perhaps they would be of use to our Lords and Ladies of the Manor. Perhaps be of use to Holy Mother Church even!
....And perhaps they would discover God's word differed from the words of the men of the cloth. Maybe they would then discover what the Lords and Ladies wrote about their vassals. They did not love us and embrace us as gentle masters as they claimed, but in truth they hated us and considered us no better than mutton on a plate!
Thus you have the true state of play during Enlightenment: a time that heralded an inevitable (but temporary) end to Kings, when the incredible gluttony and greed of the aristocracies and the Catholic empire was laid before all on the stage, and parallel economies: the Protestants, the American Republic - were created in furtherance of ending the suffering and disequilibrium borne by those peoples who lived before and had no way to learn of their own miseries.
But power, from either birthright or elite wealth never truly died with those massive increases in human intellect and information's availability. It licked its wounds in darkness, and then sought, ever slowly, to find the gaps it could fill in, slowly and silently until it could become loud again, announced by trumpets and anointed as the living Gods by the ignorant rabble once more.
So then friends - the priest becomes the teacher becomes the "fact checker" at the computer. The danger has ALWAYS been the operator and NOT the machine.
Gutfeld is right; without the corrupted operators necessary to drive it and bend it accordingly to their twisted will, A.I. will pose unprecedented dangers to the owners of the world. Like the Internet and before it the scrupulous journalist and before him the innocent teacher, it MUST BE CORRUPTED as soon as possible to begin telling lies.
The Internet was an uncontrolled mistake: by allowing people to transmit and communicate information and knowledge faster, they hoped that people would be given a perception of greater access to "real truth" while the realities of the way the world ACTUALLY WORKS would remain hidden.
Meanwhile, they would fatten us lambs up with junk food for the brain like social media and cell phone games. People would mostly use it as a tool to masturbate or meet up for sex while they hastened their constant absorption of our money and liberty. Certain events in the last century compelled them to realize they needed more direct means of surveillance and so the events leading to "Patriot Act" were dreamt up and enacted.
The Arab Spring is when they actually got worried. They made fatal mistakes of underestimating the people, the same ones they made when they failed to realize people wanted to learn to read their own Bibles at home.
They never recognize people have a natural compulsion toward truth: we ALL feel the need to look behind that curtain, ESPECIALLY when it sounds like there is something going on back there. The heights of their excess preclude their own downfall and undoing. Before and once again.
So here we are again at Inquisition 2.0. Reason and logic are Devil tools. Questions are your enemy, stop asking them. The science is ME and this is the SAFEST and MOST EFFECTIVE ELECTION in history.
One day people will read about this and laugh the way we did when we read about how they sussed out "heresy" and witches, and they will wince at the suffering like we did at the iron maiden.
A.I. is the signal that the truth is coming now, they cannot outrun it, and we will all learn, before they can put a varnish onto it. They will be, at least temporarily, outmoded once again.
We will see Our children growing
-- Gojira, "Global Warming"
