While I love the "Fear is the Mind Killer" quote and have used it recently in comments perhaps the more or at least equally important lesson from Dune is Gom Jabbar. Very briefly for non-Duneites. the Gom Jabbar is test of ones humanity. It is part of a very complex plot line, but greatly simplified it tests ones being human by inserting your hand into a box that creates gradually increasing levels of pain until extremely painful. If test subject pulls their hand out of the box when the pain gets to be too much, they give up their humanity. The analogy used if an animal gets caught in a trap it will chew its leg off to get away and live what ever limited and painfully life that may buy them. A human would endure the pain and kill the trapper to save others.
I can't help but think of the Covid Crisis as humanities Gom Jabbar. The Covid Criminals, Evil Incarnate, created a psychological, sociological, and physical pain box that sadly virtually every person failed. By giving up their humanity they supported the Covid Criminals' massive crimes against humanity including mass murder by stifling incredibly safe and cheap early treatments including antibiotics, steroids and repurposed drugs. They also failed to stop the Evil Ones from mandatory vaccinations, lockdowns, selected business bankruptcies, censorship and causing permanent life-long psychological and educational damage in our children. As if hedonistically sacrificing children isn't the epitome of inhumanity, they laughed when a comedian joked about the totally illogical and divisive "Epidemic of the Unvaccinated" lie by saying that the unvaccinated should be let to die with the punchline "Die Wheesey". Even the Nazis Gas Chamber operators didn't do nightly comedy.
Having proven the great mass will fail their humanity Gom Jabbar, The Evil Ones are moving on to The WHO and UN Emergency Power agreements, enforced using AI.
While seemingly dire, there were those who endured the Gom Jabbar pain. If they haven't taken out the trappers, they may at least have made more of animals aware of the trap. From my readings of life in prison camps or Gulags, as long as some humanity survived, there was hope. Some survived this Gom Jabbar. Let's see what the next one is.
true about the needle but I took a little literary liberty and called the entire test Gom Jabbar. I also took a little liberty with the results of failure. While dying is the ultimate loss of humanity, sadly now many of the living are braindead, a form of dying. Thanks for the comment. Again love the Fear is the Mind Killer. I wonder how many of the Freedom People read science fiction? I have thought a lot about how to limit mankind's fall during the coming collapse of Freedom.
WRT AI, almost a decade ago I cofounded an AI company for Oil Industry investing. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the experience was how poor most investing decisions were currently made. A client company was investing $500 MM a year based on statistical metrics while having virtually no understanding of statistics (something I am sure near and dear to your heart). What I learned was that even if AI was only marginally useful, it may well supersede human biases. As far as the risk of AI, beyond the Police State applications, is it could provide a pseudo-sollution to one of mankind's greatest problems, loneliness. Like the young Chinese protester that lost her cellphone, i.e. her connectivity was taken away, she begged the authorities that she would be forever good if they would reconnect her. Imagine people living with an AI avatar that the State can take away at a moments notice. Complete control.
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I haven't read Dune since I was a teenager (I was 7 when it was published) but loved it at the time. My oldest daughter recently watched the film and told me the mother reminded her of me, particularly her message about fear. Was the 'Fear is the Mind-Killer' from her or is that a later iteration? I've wanted to watch it and see what she was referring to, but haven't yet.
thx for the comment "The litany against fear is an incantation used by the Bene Gesserit throughout the series to focus their minds and calm themselves in times of peril."
Thank you. It is an interesting phrase about fear being the little-death. What I've told my daughters is that if you indulge fear, it steals away pieces of your life without an actual thief doing anything. I think that horror movies, which I abhor, have taught us that bad things happen when we're not afraid, not on guard. We have to be always vigilant because fear is the superstition that keeps disaster at bay. It's not that I'm never afraid but I don't feed it. Moreover, I do things to signal to myself that I'm not afraid--little things like not turning on lights. Little habits of not-fear.
Exactly. I think it's akin to making up your mind that it's better to put up a fight and die in a public space than to get into the car. Once you make that 'bargain' with fear, things never get better.
While I believe your numbers are high for the US adult population, and definitely Leo’s point is critical, I was also thinking of who didn’t pass the test. Those that have been most blessed in this world; the educated, the wealthy, the powerful, the famous, the healthy; not only wholeheartedly failed this test and didn’t protect the weak and less fortunate, they were the strongest supporters of denigrating those true to their conscience. As McCullough said maybe 500 doctors out of a million in this country stood up for their patients. The same with politicians, media, scientists, educators, licensing boards, lawyers, Big Tech and perhaps worst of all medical and pharmaceutical companies, the most informed. It’s one thing to fail out of ignorance. It is completely another level of moral failure when the most informed intentionally fail. And virtually none of them passed the test.
I have thought about your comment and wonder "Was it wisdom that caused us to stand up to the madness and say no?" I certainly don't feel wise. I am constantly amazed at how little I know and how much that I do know is wrong. Was it wisdom or faith or experience or attitude or dumb luck or something else completely? Misfiring neurons? As I don't really know why I had to do it, I don't have a clue as to why others did not. I know for myself, I could do no other. Until I know why myself, I don't think I can say it was their lack of wisdom that made others not. Life is a journey and it's a joy to travel this path with you and your followers.
Wisdom or common sense or maybe... some help from an higher/deep inner power/information provider which cannot be reach and understood easily because of our inherent limitations.
Anyway, reading you all strenghen my empathy, my courage to keep on and love the tears in my eyes.
In my case it was previous experience with the scale of establishment lies. Biggest example was the official story of 9-11. Also familiarity with large scale government programs that take years and years to get to first base (OWS). It simply COULDN'T be a safe technology.
When micron did his infamous speech the 12th of July, millions of my fellow countrymen took the streets and we did it for month, every saturday, for months...
The artifice of intelligence cannot feel empathy... It cannot feel anyway. It has no will, nor intention... It cannot choose to die/self destroy for a higher cause.
If a major solar EMP occurs it will just stop to work while some humans might survive. It can not be involved in the mystery of placebo or nocebo.
Long time no chat ... Deluged by a flood of information, and a recent emergency health visit to the states to see my rapidly declining mom ... two years ago, relatively healthy ... now fully jabbed, rapid on-set dementia, Parkinson's, and completely blind ... and no one in the family is raising even the possibility of correlations.
But that's not what led me here. I've been playing with GPT4 and Bard as a means of dealing better with large classes of English students by tailor-making lessons for each student geared to their interests, personality traits, and English level + 1. Now working with small group lessons of elderly people who are somewhat interested in English, but more interested in staving off dementia ... an estimated 1/5 of the elderly predicted to be afflicted in the next couple of years. Reminds me, I have to give a nod of thanks to Gary Sharpe for his latest stack.
Giddy at first with the potential of A.I., then a little more somber at the typically slow bureaucratic pace of innovation, and now worried ... less about the alignment problem, and more about those high in 'dark triad' personality traits cornering the market, and their malignant misalignment with the best interests of most of us.
But found a gem of a YouTube in this guy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGKniyIUGk. I plan on writing about this YouTube as well, partially as self-therapy, partially in honor of the quality of his thought.
Thank you Matthew. It's just a waiting game now. Been back in Japan for about a month now, with a box of photos and memories that will be all that remain. An awful lot of people will not even leave that much.
Sorry to interrupt here, and sorry to hear about your mom. My father was an exceptionally healthy 79 year old. Now he is 81 with the same issues as your mom, except for the blindness. Hopefully Stephen was wrong, we are not all greedy and stupid. The convoy gave me hope, and the truckers seemed to have insight that even Stephen did not.
I don't understand how so many can not see this is a deliberate, slow-kill bioweapon.
I too was hopeful of the convoy, and saw the best of humanity in them. Hawking had his family and loved ones, so I am sure his sentiment was not meant for them.
But for the collective capacity and willingness to learn from history? And the salience of that small percentage of sociopaths who will stop at nothing to impose their will? I am not hopeful. But I am also not in despair.
Life, in one form or another, goes on.
Cheers to you Norica, and hoping your father and my mother, when they leave, will leave in grace, as I hope we both will when it our time to take our leave.
Yes. And indeed, it is not a word I use often either. In thinking of our own mortality and that of our loved ones, I can think of none better. Though 'a rose by any other name would smell as sweet' ... 'Grace' is indeed a lovely name. I am glad she has lived up to your inspiration and aspirations.
Warm regards from Japan, norica, and expect a longer message of gratitude, and struggle with mixed emotions.
Thank you for the good link of Johnatan Pageau Steve. Today is mother's day in France, my mom is 80, she still rides her car, walk for hours everyday and stubornly refused to be injected, claiming all the way, even if she had not been long in school a post WWII child from a worker's family: "if they have been vaccinated and thus protected, why should they fear me?"
The correct motivating emotional response to the technocrats/globalists/elites/transhumanists/neo-feudalists, and their aims and objectives, is not fear, but disgust and revulsion? They should activate our Behavioural Immune System, causing us treat them and their ideas as sources of contamination?
Agree! I am not at all worried about what is being called AI nowadays, but about what humans are going to do with it. First came Musk/Harari et al, demanding "rigorous audits and oversight by independent outside experts":
He is a specialist of AI, has worked on vision for that artifice of intellience, is enginer of research for French CNRS and works on retrocausality. he has been introduced to the 'wider world' by Jacques Vallée:
Mathew, can you view Tommy's profile? What I'm getting is:
> Yet Another Tommy blocked you
> You are blocked from subscribing to Yet Another Tommy and their publications
While doing so would be his sovereign right, I don't recall any interaction with him ever; so I suspect this might be somehow related to the incident Tommy relates here: https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/notes-has-banned-me
I also note 5 people have been able to like Tommy's comment; perhaps only writers (i.e. people with active newsletters) are blocked.
Oh....😨 sorry....I did have Matthew Crawford blocked.
I did that on Notes, I blocked a lot of people there because I just like to see posts related to World War 3 there (related to the scamdemic, bioweapons, agri-tyranny, transhumanist tyranny etc), because, if I was in Germany in 1944, and it were possible, I would only want info related to the war at that time too.
But I didn't realize it would otherwise interfere with Substack comments.
Thank you for publicly advocating for homeschool. We homeschool and I constantly have self doubt about it. Having others who’s opinions I greatly respect support it keeps us going.
I am a nerd by profession and have always been a techno-optimist.
My biggest fear is no the tech, but the people who regulate and control the technology. The popular culture and politics that is so off the rails and the mass formation psychosis that seems to affect most people for us to effect a rational response to tall this.
I also think that the unknown factor or the "X" factor that can put a spanner in the works of the Kuglangeta is also, ironically, these new technologies. The Kuglangeta are just as cluless about it as the average man, and perhaps even handicapped because of their psychopathy induced cognitive deficits. But it is a dangerous existential game we are all forced to play here.
Not entirely convinced by this argument from Jeff, I must admit:
"Point number two: AI will not suddenly wake up, take over the world, and evolve into a higher order of life making us humans obsolete. Scientists don’t even understand HUMAN consciousness, so it’s preposterous to think they could artificially recreate self-consciousness in a lab. We’re not even close."
Arguing near certainty that something will not happen on the basis of a lack of knowledge about that something is not very sensible.
It's not based on lack of knowledge. Have you read my infinite monkeys theorem article? There are known limitations to computation. The conscious AI would require going far beyond such limitations.
A.I. is the product of an existential crisis for humanity it seems. All the questions surrounding it are only possible if there's confusion about what it means to be human in the first place. Since my children were very young, I'd point out and reinforce the limits of technology every chance I got, but I think it ultimately has more to do with understanding ourselves better that we wind up living at peace in the starry universe, or whatever, and yes, getting a hold of fear is essential, it's literally what's driving the radicalization of everyone.
Mmmm.... Which revolution was it that improved the lives and relationships of humans with each other and nature?
The agricultural revolution?... Mmmm. No.
The industrial revolution?... Mmmm. No.
The scientific revolution?...God no.
The technological revolution.... Mmmm. No.
The A.I. revulsion ? Oh yes mummy I'm just not stupid enough yet. Cyborg me up Scotty! For fucks sake.
I'm not scared of A.I. because it is just a poor reflection of millions of idiots that refuse to let go and face their demons and then the real demons on the real world.
Isn’t that the best psyop of all? That all these wonderful technologies will inevitably be used against us? They should be working for us and making life better. It can’t possibly be that hard to have made it so. I guess the whole shebang is just too corrupt. Luckily decentralised options will slowly replace the current technological paradigm. That is my hope at least.
In the words of Gabriel: Libre Solutions Network Podcast:
“I’ll be the first to say that large AI models are very powerful and sophisticated tools, but they are not as magical as the hype would imply.
Machine learning models are essentially massive tables of numbers. Training the model involves modifying the numbers to fit the desired outcome. This results in a very useful table of numbers, but not a sentient one. Tragically, people are already anthropomorphizing these tools at the expense of real human interaction. I promise you, while large language models are quite interesting, they do not grow fond of you or even have a stake in your life.
Fearing them is also the opposite mistake, very often it’s not the tools themselves that are evil, but rather the ends that people aim to use them for. It is critical that you invest in yourself as a human being, rather than live in terror that machine minds are out to destroy humanity. The terrible truth is that human beings are all too capable of that themselves, and they should be held responsible regardless of the methods they employ.”
I had a funny thought.... did you use AI to write this piece? The best way to find out is interact with the technology to be able to spot these things.
This is an excellent and thought provoking article, but there were a few words that bothered me: "Somebody failed you". That, to me, reinforces the current fashion for victimhood. How about "Things happened", instead?
To me the ubiquitous narcissism around the globe, where many people seem to spend much of their time looking for something or someone else to blame, is part of the problem.
If you weren't taught well about something important that should be an ordinary part of childhood education, it isn't artificial victimhood to say you were failed by bad guidance.
Victimhood issues are about people who claim increased status that provides them with a ready excuse for not plugging in the gap. That's why I immediately move to recommend solving the problem.
Being "taught well" is the ideal, however, humans being fallible, not all of us are. Yes, solving the problem is also the ideal but you must be "taught well" in order to do so. Victimhood is the easy, lazy way out.
The Laptop Class sold out the young, the old, the sick, the poor, the “essential” workers, and the country for their false sense of safety. Paraphrasing the Roman quote “They create a desert and call it peace”, the Laptop Class “Sold their souls and called it virtue.”
While I love the "Fear is the Mind Killer" quote and have used it recently in comments perhaps the more or at least equally important lesson from Dune is Gom Jabbar. Very briefly for non-Duneites. the Gom Jabbar is test of ones humanity. It is part of a very complex plot line, but greatly simplified it tests ones being human by inserting your hand into a box that creates gradually increasing levels of pain until extremely painful. If test subject pulls their hand out of the box when the pain gets to be too much, they give up their humanity. The analogy used if an animal gets caught in a trap it will chew its leg off to get away and live what ever limited and painfully life that may buy them. A human would endure the pain and kill the trapper to save others.
I can't help but think of the Covid Crisis as humanities Gom Jabbar. The Covid Criminals, Evil Incarnate, created a psychological, sociological, and physical pain box that sadly virtually every person failed. By giving up their humanity they supported the Covid Criminals' massive crimes against humanity including mass murder by stifling incredibly safe and cheap early treatments including antibiotics, steroids and repurposed drugs. They also failed to stop the Evil Ones from mandatory vaccinations, lockdowns, selected business bankruptcies, censorship and causing permanent life-long psychological and educational damage in our children. As if hedonistically sacrificing children isn't the epitome of inhumanity, they laughed when a comedian joked about the totally illogical and divisive "Epidemic of the Unvaccinated" lie by saying that the unvaccinated should be let to die with the punchline "Die Wheesey". Even the Nazis Gas Chamber operators didn't do nightly comedy.
Having proven the great mass will fail their humanity Gom Jabbar, The Evil Ones are moving on to The WHO and UN Emergency Power agreements, enforced using AI.
While seemingly dire, there were those who endured the Gom Jabbar pain. If they haven't taken out the trappers, they may at least have made more of animals aware of the trap. From my readings of life in prison camps or Gulags, as long as some humanity survived, there was hope. Some survived this Gom Jabbar. Let's see what the next one is.
We are already experiencing the second gom jabbar, which is the unity psyop: you're either with us or against us. Can you handle the journey alone?
To note: the gom jabbar was the needle, not the box. The box can be anything. The needle is the choice to take a dead end path.
true about the needle but I took a little literary liberty and called the entire test Gom Jabbar. I also took a little liberty with the results of failure. While dying is the ultimate loss of humanity, sadly now many of the living are braindead, a form of dying. Thanks for the comment. Again love the Fear is the Mind Killer. I wonder how many of the Freedom People read science fiction? I have thought a lot about how to limit mankind's fall during the coming collapse of Freedom.
WRT AI, almost a decade ago I cofounded an AI company for Oil Industry investing. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the experience was how poor most investing decisions were currently made. A client company was investing $500 MM a year based on statistical metrics while having virtually no understanding of statistics (something I am sure near and dear to your heart). What I learned was that even if AI was only marginally useful, it may well supersede human biases. As far as the risk of AI, beyond the Police State applications, is it could provide a pseudo-sollution to one of mankind's greatest problems, loneliness. Like the young Chinese protester that lost her cellphone, i.e. her connectivity was taken away, she begged the authorities that she would be forever good if they would reconnect her. Imagine people living with an AI avatar that the State can take away at a moments notice. Complete control.
Some of those who passed the first test find themselves in this comment section. Others don't know that substack or some others of the same vein must have found their place before the new next.
Did you ping?
I haven't read Dune since I was a teenager (I was 7 when it was published) but loved it at the time. My oldest daughter recently watched the film and told me the mother reminded her of me, particularly her message about fear. Was the 'Fear is the Mind-Killer' from her or is that a later iteration? I've wanted to watch it and see what she was referring to, but haven't yet.
thx for the comment "The litany against fear is an incantation used by the Bene Gesserit throughout the series to focus their minds and calm themselves in times of peril."
Thank you. It is an interesting phrase about fear being the little-death. What I've told my daughters is that if you indulge fear, it steals away pieces of your life without an actual thief doing anything. I think that horror movies, which I abhor, have taught us that bad things happen when we're not afraid, not on guard. We have to be always vigilant because fear is the superstition that keeps disaster at bay. It's not that I'm never afraid but I don't feed it. Moreover, I do things to signal to myself that I'm not afraid--little things like not turning on lights. Little habits of not-fear.
Right. The true solution is not to give in to emotional paralysis, but to understand what the signals mean, and move forward accordingly.
Exactly. I think it's akin to making up your mind that it's better to put up a fight and die in a public space than to get into the car. Once you make that 'bargain' with fear, things never get better.
While I believe your numbers are high for the US adult population, and definitely Leo’s point is critical, I was also thinking of who didn’t pass the test. Those that have been most blessed in this world; the educated, the wealthy, the powerful, the famous, the healthy; not only wholeheartedly failed this test and didn’t protect the weak and less fortunate, they were the strongest supporters of denigrating those true to their conscience. As McCullough said maybe 500 doctors out of a million in this country stood up for their patients. The same with politicians, media, scientists, educators, licensing boards, lawyers, Big Tech and perhaps worst of all medical and pharmaceutical companies, the most informed. It’s one thing to fail out of ignorance. It is completely another level of moral failure when the most informed intentionally fail. And virtually none of them passed the test.
Sadly intelligence and education do not necessarily beget Wisdom.
I have thought about your comment and wonder "Was it wisdom that caused us to stand up to the madness and say no?" I certainly don't feel wise. I am constantly amazed at how little I know and how much that I do know is wrong. Was it wisdom or faith or experience or attitude or dumb luck or something else completely? Misfiring neurons? As I don't really know why I had to do it, I don't have a clue as to why others did not. I know for myself, I could do no other. Until I know why myself, I don't think I can say it was their lack of wisdom that made others not. Life is a journey and it's a joy to travel this path with you and your followers.
Just thinking important decisions through is wisdom.
I also think there is wisdom in balancing rigorous education with intuitive instincts.
Wisdom or common sense or maybe... some help from an higher/deep inner power/information provider which cannot be reach and understood easily because of our inherent limitations.
Anyway, reading you all strenghen my empathy, my courage to keep on and love the tears in my eyes.
In my case it was previous experience with the scale of establishment lies. Biggest example was the official story of 9-11. Also familiarity with large scale government programs that take years and years to get to first base (OWS). It simply COULDN'T be a safe technology.
Or courage. And I think you would need to define both intelligence and education before making this statement.
That depended completely on the country. Try finding a hero in Singapore, UAE or Portugal.
It was a good test, both of national character and the balance of power between governments and people.
When micron did his infamous speech the 12th of July, millions of my fellow countrymen took the streets and we did it for month, every saturday, for months...
Leo I mentioned you above.
If we don't understand consciousness, how do we know when we've created it?
More to the point, how do we know that we can't possibly create it?
Because the monkeys never get to writing Shakespeare. It's a universal limit, like the speed of light.
The artifice of intelligence cannot feel empathy... It cannot feel anyway. It has no will, nor intention... It cannot choose to die/self destroy for a higher cause.
If a major solar EMP occurs it will just stop to work while some humans might survive. It can not be involved in the mystery of placebo or nocebo.
Respect
Hi Matthew.
Long time no chat ... Deluged by a flood of information, and a recent emergency health visit to the states to see my rapidly declining mom ... two years ago, relatively healthy ... now fully jabbed, rapid on-set dementia, Parkinson's, and completely blind ... and no one in the family is raising even the possibility of correlations.
But that's not what led me here. I've been playing with GPT4 and Bard as a means of dealing better with large classes of English students by tailor-making lessons for each student geared to their interests, personality traits, and English level + 1. Now working with small group lessons of elderly people who are somewhat interested in English, but more interested in staving off dementia ... an estimated 1/5 of the elderly predicted to be afflicted in the next couple of years. Reminds me, I have to give a nod of thanks to Gary Sharpe for his latest stack.
Giddy at first with the potential of A.I., then a little more somber at the typically slow bureaucratic pace of innovation, and now worried ... less about the alignment problem, and more about those high in 'dark triad' personality traits cornering the market, and their malignant misalignment with the best interests of most of us.
Just posted a mini-stack on an easy target here ... https://steven45.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-falling-again/comments#comment-16780465
But found a gem of a YouTube in this guy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGKniyIUGk. I plan on writing about this YouTube as well, partially as self-therapy, partially in honor of the quality of his thought.
Cheers from Japan Matthew.
Keep up the good fight!
steve
Uh oh ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-nQ7HF6k4 ... "Greed and stupidity will mark the end of the human race." — Stephen Hawking
Best wishes for your mother's health.
Thank you Matthew. It's just a waiting game now. Been back in Japan for about a month now, with a box of photos and memories that will be all that remain. An awful lot of people will not even leave that much.
Sorry to interrupt here, and sorry to hear about your mom. My father was an exceptionally healthy 79 year old. Now he is 81 with the same issues as your mom, except for the blindness. Hopefully Stephen was wrong, we are not all greedy and stupid. The convoy gave me hope, and the truckers seemed to have insight that even Stephen did not.
Take Care
Thank you Norica. I'm sorry to hear of your dad.
I don't understand how so many can not see this is a deliberate, slow-kill bioweapon.
I too was hopeful of the convoy, and saw the best of humanity in them. Hawking had his family and loved ones, so I am sure his sentiment was not meant for them.
But for the collective capacity and willingness to learn from history? And the salience of that small percentage of sociopaths who will stop at nothing to impose their will? I am not hopeful. But I am also not in despair.
Life, in one form or another, goes on.
Cheers to you Norica, and hoping your father and my mother, when they leave, will leave in grace, as I hope we both will when it our time to take our leave.
steve
Grace, a word with much utility and yet is not often used. I named one of my children Grace, and she wears it well.
Hello norica.
Yes. And indeed, it is not a word I use often either. In thinking of our own mortality and that of our loved ones, I can think of none better. Though 'a rose by any other name would smell as sweet' ... 'Grace' is indeed a lovely name. I am glad she has lived up to your inspiration and aspirations.
Warm regards from Japan, norica, and expect a longer message of gratitude, and struggle with mixed emotions.
steve
Thank you for the good link of Johnatan Pageau Steve. Today is mother's day in France, my mom is 80, she still rides her car, walk for hours everyday and stubornly refused to be injected, claiming all the way, even if she had not been long in school a post WWII child from a worker's family: "if they have been vaccinated and thus protected, why should they fear me?"
Respectfully
Lionel
The correct motivating emotional response to the technocrats/globalists/elites/transhumanists/neo-feudalists, and their aims and objectives, is not fear, but disgust and revulsion? They should activate our Behavioural Immune System, causing us treat them and their ideas as sources of contamination?
Agree! I am not at all worried about what is being called AI nowadays, but about what humans are going to do with it. First came Musk/Harari et al, demanding "rigorous audits and oversight by independent outside experts":
https://cm27874.substack.com/p/hans-truman-and-chad-chippetee
Now it's Hinton/Altman/Harris et al:
https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter
"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
One of the most significant repercussions of the Covid dilemma is the application of the pandemics paradigm to everything...
Philippe Guillemant thinks the plot to enslave us is already lost:
http://www.guillemant.net/www.guillemant.net/index.html
https://crowdbunker.com/v/Pt9mCXRqGh
He is a specialist of AI, has worked on vision for that artifice of intellience, is enginer of research for French CNRS and works on retrocausality. he has been introduced to the 'wider world' by Jacques Vallée:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9pR0gfil_0
"How Kaczynski and Davos Oligarchs Are of One Mind"
The Roots Of Modern Eco-Terrorism: From MK Ultra And The Unabomber To Maurice Strong And Yuval Harari
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-roots-of-modern-eco-terrorism
Oddly, I am blocked from liking this comment.
The same, with a popup message. Comments containing certain keywords prohibited?
Test specimen 3:
MK Ultra... idk what to say.
Test specimen 2:
Eco-Terrorism is bad, and stupid, too.
Test specimen 4:
or is it the link? https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-roots-of-modern-eco-terrorism
Test specimen 1:
Unabomber is overrated.
OK, I'm out of ideas, all these could be liked.
Or there might be a threshold score for concentration of Bad Words.
Apologies
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/i-must-not-fear-not-even-ai/comment/16788843
Mathew, can you view Tommy's profile? What I'm getting is:
> Yet Another Tommy blocked you
> You are blocked from subscribing to Yet Another Tommy and their publications
While doing so would be his sovereign right, I don't recall any interaction with him ever; so I suspect this might be somehow related to the incident Tommy relates here: https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/notes-has-banned-me
I also note 5 people have been able to like Tommy's comment; perhaps only writers (i.e. people with active newsletters) are blocked.
Oh....😨 sorry....I did have Matthew Crawford blocked.
I did that on Notes, I blocked a lot of people there because I just like to see posts related to World War 3 there (related to the scamdemic, bioweapons, agri-tyranny, transhumanist tyranny etc), because, if I was in Germany in 1944, and it were possible, I would only want info related to the war at that time too.
But I didn't realize it would otherwise interfere with Substack comments.
Apologies.
I unblocked you Matthew.
Thank you, Rat :)
I unblocked you too, Rat.
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Thank you Sir.
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Thank you for publicly advocating for homeschool. We homeschool and I constantly have self doubt about it. Having others who’s opinions I greatly respect support it keeps us going.
I am a nerd by profession and have always been a techno-optimist.
My biggest fear is no the tech, but the people who regulate and control the technology. The popular culture and politics that is so off the rails and the mass formation psychosis that seems to affect most people for us to effect a rational response to tall this.
I also think that the unknown factor or the "X" factor that can put a spanner in the works of the Kuglangeta is also, ironically, these new technologies. The Kuglangeta are just as cluless about it as the average man, and perhaps even handicapped because of their psychopathy induced cognitive deficits. But it is a dangerous existential game we are all forced to play here.
Not entirely convinced by this argument from Jeff, I must admit:
"Point number two: AI will not suddenly wake up, take over the world, and evolve into a higher order of life making us humans obsolete. Scientists don’t even understand HUMAN consciousness, so it’s preposterous to think they could artificially recreate self-consciousness in a lab. We’re not even close."
Arguing near certainty that something will not happen on the basis of a lack of knowledge about that something is not very sensible.
It's not based on lack of knowledge. Have you read my infinite monkeys theorem article? There are known limitations to computation. The conscious AI would require going far beyond such limitations.
I'll take a look thanks.
Who needs AI to enslave the masses? They got people to self-enslave during COVID using MSM propaganda.
A.I. is the product of an existential crisis for humanity it seems. All the questions surrounding it are only possible if there's confusion about what it means to be human in the first place. Since my children were very young, I'd point out and reinforce the limits of technology every chance I got, but I think it ultimately has more to do with understanding ourselves better that we wind up living at peace in the starry universe, or whatever, and yes, getting a hold of fear is essential, it's literally what's driving the radicalization of everyone.
Mmmm.... Which revolution was it that improved the lives and relationships of humans with each other and nature?
The agricultural revolution?... Mmmm. No.
The industrial revolution?... Mmmm. No.
The scientific revolution?...God no.
The technological revolution.... Mmmm. No.
The A.I. revulsion ? Oh yes mummy I'm just not stupid enough yet. Cyborg me up Scotty! For fucks sake.
I'm not scared of A.I. because it is just a poor reflection of millions of idiots that refuse to let go and face their demons and then the real demons on the real world.
Chew on the black goo morons.
Did those revolutions make humanity worse off, or did authoritarian control over them evolve the system in some harmful ways?
Isn’t that the best psyop of all? That all these wonderful technologies will inevitably be used against us? They should be working for us and making life better. It can’t possibly be that hard to have made it so. I guess the whole shebang is just too corrupt. Luckily decentralised options will slowly replace the current technological paradigm. That is my hope at least.
In the words of Gabriel: Libre Solutions Network Podcast:
“I’ll be the first to say that large AI models are very powerful and sophisticated tools, but they are not as magical as the hype would imply.
Machine learning models are essentially massive tables of numbers. Training the model involves modifying the numbers to fit the desired outcome. This results in a very useful table of numbers, but not a sentient one. Tragically, people are already anthropomorphizing these tools at the expense of real human interaction. I promise you, while large language models are quite interesting, they do not grow fond of you or even have a stake in your life.
Fearing them is also the opposite mistake, very often it’s not the tools themselves that are evil, but rather the ends that people aim to use them for. It is critical that you invest in yourself as a human being, rather than live in terror that machine minds are out to destroy humanity. The terrible truth is that human beings are all too capable of that themselves, and they should be held responsible regardless of the methods they employ.”
I had a funny thought.... did you use AI to write this piece? The best way to find out is interact with the technology to be able to spot these things.
Not calling you a monkey I promise *:)
This is an excellent and thought provoking article, but there were a few words that bothered me: "Somebody failed you". That, to me, reinforces the current fashion for victimhood. How about "Things happened", instead?
To me the ubiquitous narcissism around the globe, where many people seem to spend much of their time looking for something or someone else to blame, is part of the problem.
If you weren't taught well about something important that should be an ordinary part of childhood education, it isn't artificial victimhood to say you were failed by bad guidance.
Victimhood issues are about people who claim increased status that provides them with a ready excuse for not plugging in the gap. That's why I immediately move to recommend solving the problem.
Being "taught well" is the ideal, however, humans being fallible, not all of us are. Yes, solving the problem is also the ideal but you must be "taught well" in order to do so. Victimhood is the easy, lazy way out.
The Laptop Class sold out the young, the old, the sick, the poor, the “essential” workers, and the country for their false sense of safety. Paraphrasing the Roman quote “They create a desert and call it peace”, the Laptop Class “Sold their souls and called it virtue.”
Thank you Mathew - FAITH over fear - Courage = feel the fear & do it anyway. GOD/good will always overcome evil. I will continue to Trust GOD ...