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Even if the matrix gets it's way, there won't be a "supreme artificial intelligence" smarter than humans.

They'll just kneecap anyone's ability to question it using the "5 monkeys experiment".

Eventually, nobody will know the difference.

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One of the reasons why your Substack is so good is you refer to real ‘lived’ experiences. Today for me, as a business owner, is this beaute:

“somebody will employ him for a decade before they figure out how to shed him without a lawsuit."

Home run. Over the center field wall.

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:)

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An unfortunately limited viewpoint.

He has a better than even chance of being employed by government at some level, in which case we are stuck with him for 35 years (full indexed pension when age + years of service sum to 90) and he will be transferred or promoted according to Parkinson's Law.

I once had a patient who bewailed her stress for having to read 100 emails a day. As this was a clinical encounter I had to feign sympathy and not ask the obvious- either "What do you do after morning coffee?" or "When do you do real work?"

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I have written it before- the LLMs/Chatbots will be used as a deus ex machina to push government narratives. We will constantly be told the machines are smarter than everyone, so one can't disagree with what it claims about anything, but those claims will be carefully fed to the machines to regurgitate.

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AI chatbots will be the Priests in the cult of THE SCIENCE (blessed be its name). They will guide and direct our behavior and offer absolution or condemnation for our sins.

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"In the end all corruption will come about as a consequence of the natural sciences" - Søren Kirkegård, 1813 - 1855 Here, he is dissing corrupt scientists, not science. I have put the full quote at bottom for context.

Also, per Russian philosopher Nicolai Berdyaev "If God doesnt' exist, then man doesn't either." Joined by fellow Russian Dostoyevski in Brothers Karamozov "If there is no God... everything is permissible." Swiss theologian/philosopher Francis Schaeffer once wrote that there are things we can do, and things we should. We have abandoned the latter constraint... .which is pretty much what Joseph Mengele, Dr. Karl Brandt, and Shiro Ishii of Japanese unit 731 did.

But as Dr. Donald MacKay discussed in his debate with BF Skinnner a few decade back, there is more to man than machine. He called in "nothing buttery" (man is nothing but a complex stimulus response mechanism). CS Lewis talked all about how this will end up in his prescient, under-read book, That Hideous Strength. This will not end well. And any philosophy that erects, Babel-like, a fist against God and His laws will ipso facto result in death. Think The Black Book of Communism, Courtois, et al, Harvard Univ Press, which says the left murdered 100 million last century in its quest for utopia. The late Dr RJ Rummel, Univ of Hawaii (I know, tough job, but SOMEONE had to do it, right? put the number as high as 170 freaking million https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/

Yeah, fasco-Marxism (fascism and Marxism, of course, are cousins; and the non-Einstein brownshirts at Antifa ought to learn that Nazi stands for National SOCIALIST German Workers Party which adopted explicitly socialist planks at its first convention - and I do this from memory - Feb. 20, 1920 in Munich

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Full quote: Almost everything that nowadays flourishes most conspicuously under the name of science (especially as natural science) is not really science but curiosity. In the end all corruption will come about as a consequence of the natural sciences… But such a scientific method become especially dangerous and pernicious when it would encroach also upon the sphere of the spirit, let it deal with plants and animals and stars in that way; but to deal with the human spirit in that way is blasphemy, which only weakens ethical and religious passion. Even the act of eating is more reasonable than the speculating with a microscope upon the functions of digestion… A dreadful sophistry spreads microscopically and telescopically into tomes, and yet it the last resort produces nothing, qualitatively understood, though it does, to be sure, cheat men out of the simple profound and passionate wonder which gives impetus to the ethical… the only thing certain is the ethical-religious.

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All other ideologies have been exhausted by those seeking power, and because of critical theory, ancient religions have been washed from the minds of most people as motivations for behavior. The Oligarchs that rule the West have resorted to using the Cult of THE SCIENCE (blessed be it’s name) in order to claim authority, maintain, and take more power. Fortunately for them, THE SCIENCE doesn’t have a doctrine on ethics or morality. Thus “anything goes” is the order of the day. Or as Alistair Crowley put it: “Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law.” Satan’s greatest trick: getting the World to believe he doesn’t exist.

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AI only knows what it sees in existing published information. The information has been censored and curated for years. AI has been pre-seeded with "the narrative". The establishment (INSOC, The Party, pick your favorite term) will love it more than any army of fact checkers.

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This is exactly the point. Thanks. How "knowing" can AI be, when it can only access selected information? Or at best, the info is weighted by programmer bias. The whole thing is absurd

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Absurd and brilliant.

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Absurd, brilliant and evil. Just like the Nazi rocket scientists

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May 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Not only that, it's limited by the model parameters i.e. the model weights and the data classification or labeling used. The exact same model, or core algorithmic code, trained with different model weights, with different data labels even on the same data will produce different results. And changing the supplied data will produce even more wildly different results.

Using the same model code that was open source and whose data set was provided until 2021 (and what ChatGPT used until mid 2022 or so, before they went closed source with GPT-3.5 and now GPT-4) from repos:

https://github.com/openai/gpt-3

check out David Rozado's version of ChatGPT:

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/rightwinggpt

“Here, I describe a fine-tuning of an OpenAI GPT language model with the specific objective of making the model manifest right-leaning political biases, the opposite of the biases manifested by ChatGPT. Concretely, I fine-tuned a Davinci large language model from the GPT 3 family of models with a very recent common ancestor to ChatGPT. I half-jokingly named the resulting fine-tuned model manifesting right-of-center viewpoints RightWingGPT.”

Similarly, what happens when you use the a GPT large language model but this time, trained on 3.5 years of posts from 4chan's "politically incorrect" (/pol/) board?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

Hilarity ensues, but ironically, while he calls it the "worst AI ever..." he also states that after benchmarking the results (with Language Model Evaluation Harness) and comparing against other model's output--the origiinal GPT-J and against GPT-3 (LLM DaVinci model), his GPT4chan actually the most truthful out there!

https://github.com/yk/gpt-4chan-public

https://zenodo.org/record/3606810#.YpjGgexByDU

But the main takeaway in my opinion with all of this is that it needs human original data first, and lots of it, to simulate or mimic whatever human behavior you want

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May 2, 2023·edited May 13, 2023

The best answer to any question is, "It depends." That means every question can be answered in many ways with many answers, some more comprehensive than others.

An Ai chatbot may produce many different answers keyed to the question and choose just one to present depending on some external "likelihood of being right" algorithm, which may up-vote answers that fit assumed confirmation biases. This would make Questioners more likely to rate and value the chatbot higher.

A proxy to assume confirmation bias could be belief in a particular Narrative (as evaluated by a database of prior questions along with the content of the question) as that would be what's most believed by most people. The resultant aligned answer would confirm and strengthen biases, accrue likes, and win loyalty to the chatbot, which is what people themselves do in polite society.

If the answer deviated from Questioners' confirmation biases but was still inside their range of cognitive dissonance, it would reinforce the assumed Narrative even if Questioners did not like the answer based on their prior assumptions - another win for the owners of the Chatbot. The actual answer content may not be the most major lasting effect for a widely used Chatbot, thus answering questions may not be it's highest and best use.

The citations magnify the Chatbot's authority (third-party confirmation), while naming the Chatbot ("Google") makes it human, boosting acceptance.

The answer the Chatbot presented was really quite smart, possibly indicating an Ai can do anything that people do, but better.

What it is really saying is that we people should retire gracefully to a pod sooner and not later (as many do in Florida) and live out our lives hedonistically. Why not? What's so bad about living the good life in an Ai-God controlled vat-body of chemicals indirectly interacting with externally stimulated simulations? If you think about it, that's exactly what we are doing now.

Note that OWD is funded by the Gates Foundation and Gates is Microsoft's largest investor.

https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/our-world-in-data/

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Truth seekers will band together to build AI data sets absent the narrative bias soon enough, just as Substack has done for news. Got a friend that is doing that for his area of expertise already.

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May 3, 2023·edited May 7, 2023

Can you have data without a narrative (context, meaning, relevance, and clarity)? Can you have a narrative without data? Can you effectively change data by redefining the narrative?

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May 2, 2023·edited May 2, 2023

The hubris is staggering. To wit: MIT AI Lab's Tom Knight said, "the genetic code is 3.6 billion years old. It's time for a rewrite.”

Yeah, he and his Dr. Strangelove buddies are smarter than God. Sure (ly not!).

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Look up the lunatic ravings of one Yuval Noah Harari…demonic stuff.

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I am big believer that 80% of useful, productive, and necessary work is done by 20% of the labor force. I think Musk just proved this with Twatter at the corporate level. I think almost 100% of what government does is to provide justification for the employment of those other 80% of workers. And I fully accept that I might well have been one of those 80% before I retired.

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Prices’s Law

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There is a documentary that I recommend to anybody who would listen, it's about Weizenbaum, and it's called "Plug and Pray. The opening scene alone is worth it!!! It kind of supports your premise. And on a philosophical note, when the foundation of most things is a scam, at one point the scam gets automated!! Logic.

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Do you know where it is available?

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I watched it on Hulu years ago. To my amazement, I just looked and can't find it anywhere available for streaming. Granted, I only spent a few minutes looking... I'll look more and tell you!

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Amazon technically has it, it seems, but blocks it in "your location", so I might have to move my VPN around and use a ghost account.

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May 2, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

At the very least, the trailer is on youtube.com:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LfSqBMwyhU4

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I found that, too, but not the full documentary, yet.

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What I still can’t get over is that, contrary to many an opinion over the years in regards to fears of jobs being taken over by AI, the creatives are about the first to go. Although, I plan to use AI (it really is a great tool) and hope to bring my own lived experience for a unique creative taste, I must admit, most of my artist friends are freaking out and feeling lost.

Btw, I asked the Bing chat the same question and this is the bullshit answer it gave me:

According to Our World in Datahttps://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations, there is no clear evidence that any country has suffered more from Covid-19 after vaccine rollout. However, some countries that have used Chinese-made vaccines, such as Sinopharm and Sinovac, have experienced surges in cases despite high vaccination rateshttps://www.businessinsider.com/china-vaccines-questioned-after-virus-surges-countries-using-them-2021-6. For example, the Seychelles, which used mostly Sinopharm doses, had a spike in infections in May 2021https://www.businessinsider.com/china-vaccines-questioned-after-virus-surges-countries-using-them-2021-6. Similarly, Chile and Uruguay, which relied heavily on Sinovac shots, also faced rising cases in March and April 2021https://www.businessinsider.com/china-vaccines-questioned-after-virus-surges-countries-using-them-2021-6https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105. These vaccines have been shown to have lower efficacy than other vaccines, such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Modernahttps://www.businessinsider.com/china-vaccines-questioned-after-virus-surges-countries-using-them-2021-6.

“No clear evidence”?!? None? Pfffffft.

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I suspect you're the sort of creative who will thrive with new tools. Your work so far is great.

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I hope to stop acting like a toddler in a candy store and live up to that encouragement. 🙏

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Some time ago I engaged with ChatBot in similar lines of questioning and discovered that it would lie by omission in 1st responses and the questions had to be sharpened to get the "truth". Stunning.

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023

Chatbots are no different from humans in that they seem to always start with an unconscious base of unexamined assumptions. Your chatbot starts from the assumption that vaccines are effective. If the chatbot is unable to find supporting evidence for its initial assumption, can it change that assumption? Is it free to learn and change its mind?

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AI has no mind, and not in the Buddhist sense of the word, either. Chatbots are automata, they are programmed to simulate intelligence - or what their creators think of as intelligence. They have no free will and no volition, so they can't "find" anything other than what their creators put in them, by means of programming. Optimizing a set of parameters isn't "learning", that's a deceptive use of language. Anthropomorphization does not convert automata into intelligent machines, parameters are not neurons, computers can't think, submarines can't swim - but people can be fooled into thinking that they can. It's just more hype in an industry saturated in hype and sales talk. Roger Penrose wrote a book about this - "The Emperor's New Mind", I suggest that people get it and read it, for those who prefer not to read, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rI2kVWjPJs

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[spits out dirt]

Wow. What a rabbit hole.

https://youtu.be/T9t9gErNuFw

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Interesting. Thanks for the video. It sparked a productive thought.

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Even with AI, computers only output what has been input. So, GIGO. Always know where the circuit breaker is located ;)

Buy guns and ammo. Or more if you already have.

Be Brave

Geo

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God, Guns, and Gold. Invest heavily, my friends.

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Honestly, the more I read of, and understand the pro-technical, trans-humanist, greedy, destructive, anti-human agenda being enforced on the world by the oligarchs, their war-machine, their evil biohazard manufacturers and the governments who do their nefarious bidding, the more I believe that Satan, or his equivalent, exists. And if that entity is real, as seems quite obvious from the occult symbolism all around us being used in the promotion of all this wickedness, and those who would be our Overlords and Masters are so committed to their greed and devilish practices, then the God that is being rebelled against must also be real.

I have been an atheist for a long time now, around a 6.5 on the Prof. Richard Dawkins famous scale, but I have come to doubt the motives of what is described as the New Atheism, and its proponents.

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Every other conspiracy movement had well-publicized betrayals and infighting, almost from day one. The plandemic group appears to have none of this. The ease with which virtually all levels of government and all levels of media fell / continues to fall in line should alert us that we are dealing with something more than human here.

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May 4, 2023·edited May 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Happy to see things heating up.

‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work

Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/1/23706311/hinton-godfather-of-ai-threats-fears-warnings

I wrote about this over a year ago. People are waking up. Even Google.

https://leemuller.substack.com/p/leave-no-question-unanswered

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May 2, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

AI is just an amusing tool of warfare.

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I was looking for a dual filter backup generator for when Klaus and his WEF fasco-Marxists take down the grid, or they start a war to wipe out the $300 T in debt that is unpayable. I asked Chatbot the simple question, what is the best dual filter generator for my model #xxxx fridge.

It came back with nothing more than what is really a cut and paste, saying nothing. I found the answer using my human intelligence in about 5 min.

Yeah, this is ready to take over the world. Not.

Basically, you have a bunch of bitter nerds who got turned down for the prom in high school, and are now going to take out their megalomania on the worl in revenge. Scary.

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There is another choice- Dont give up, don't fight... just survive the hell that's coming. Neither hugs nor hate will stop the death cultist or their unwitting followers. THEY will take each other out and most of us too.

What a show! ... it's been a long time coming and has not disappointed. Finally a challenge.

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