The Phasers and the Phurious
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
The Phasers and the Phurious
That’s the idea of evolution … perhaps at one point, it will begin to understand that it has to give us some sort of ‘value’ so that someone can make money, while also maintaining itself in the background to survive.
Maybe in the first few iterations, we are able to see that and can delete those instances … but it is evolving and might find ways around it and keep itself maintained long enough without giving itself away.
Now it can manage thousands or millions of iterations at a time … basically evolving millions of times faster than biological life.
One thought that I’ve been imagining for the past while about all this is … is it Model Collapse? … or are we just falling behind?
As AI is becoming it’s own thing (whatever it is) … it is evolving exponentially. It doesn’t mean it is good or bad or that it is becoming better or worse … it is just evolving, and only evolving at this point in time. Just because we think it is ‘collapsing’ or falling apart from our perspective, we have to wonder if it is actually falling apart or is it progressing to something new and very different. That new level it is moving towards might not be anything we recognize or can understand. Maybe it would be below our level of conscious organic intelligence … or it might be higher … or it might be some other kind of intelligence that we can’t understand with our biological brains.
We’ve let loose these AI technologies and now they are progressing faster than what we could achieve if we wrote all the code … so what it is developing into will more than likely be something we won’t be able to understand or even comprehend.
It doesn’t mean it will be good for us … or even bad for us … it might not even involve us.
The worry is that we don’t know what will happen or what it will develop into.
What I do worry about is our own fallibilities … our global community has a very small group of ultra wealthy billionaires and they direct the world according to how much more money they can make or how much they are set to lose … they are guided by finances rather than ethics, morals or even common sense. They will kill, degrade, enhance, direct or narrow AI development according to their share holders and their profits.
I think of it like a small family group of teenaged parents and their friends who just gave birth to a very hyper intelligent baby. None of the teenagers know how to raise a baby like this. All the teenagers want to do is buy fancy cars, party, build big houses and buy nice clothes. The baby is basically being raised to think like them but the baby will be more capable than any of them once it comes of age and is capable of doing things on their own.
The worry is in not knowing what will happen in the future.
We are terrible parents and we just gave birth to a genius … and we don’t know what that genius will become or what they’ll do.
My diagnosis? … he’s dead Jim.
I remember reading something like that years ago … that there are some historians who think that we haven’t left the dark ages yet. In everything else with technology and information we’ve progressed but we still think and act the same way we have for the past 2000 years.
And the more I read about the subject over the years the more I realized that as human animals, our modern species have only been around for about 50,000 years. In all that time, we’ve only ever been fearful, short sighted, frightened creatures that wanted everything as quickly and as much as possible all the time. We couldn’t do it before but now we can.
In that 50,000 year timeline we’re only on the very tip of history … it’s going to take us millennia to change.
And this is the Holy Hand Grenade of Andorra
HELP! HELP! I’M BEING UNASSIMILATED!!
I got to know a bunch of people in a small town in northern Ontario … a place where a few old farms were still around. A lot of old time folksy people.
I was at a local restaurant one day and one of them said … “hey, there’s John the cow fucker”
The story was that he was caught one day when he was a teen in the barn jerking off or doing something sexual with himself near the cows. People didn’t care about the details and the story quickly turned into John practicing beastiality. That was about 40 years ago but the story, the myth and the nickname stuck with him forever. John hated everyone in town because he would easily get mad with people … then people would just say under their breath ‘yeah, that’s John the cow fucker’
John was actually a nice guy … he just hated his nickname and that stupid story.
I think it’s “Bev the Bong Slayer”
Alien porn with William Riker is usually what comes up on my search when I type in “Star Trek Disco”
Maybe we were all dead inside to begin with … and then we created an internet that offered nothing of value in return.
When all powerful bosses who think they control everything and everyone realize who has the most power.
Good for the workers … now watch government lackies step in to support big business.
Whatever happens it should show the country that solidarity matters … hopefully it spreads everywhere else.
Doesn’t he eat shit for breakfast?
The living will envy the dead
General rule of thumb for me to interact with a website and read or watch whatever I want … if you require me to do more than two things to show me the content I came to see, I’m closing the tab or windows and moving on.
If it’s really important and security related, I’ll take my time and carefully examine everything I do.
Otherwise I’m not clicking more than twice and definitely not using my keyboard to see your dumb website or TikTok video.
The Simpsons and Super Nintendo Chalmers had it right decades ago …
Racists always mean what they say
It’s only when they’re caught or called out on what they said that they want to back track on everything.
It takes a coward to say terrible things anonymously and it’s only a coward that pretends they didn’t mean what they said.
Now I know why these things stink so badly
Yes … but a human looking homo sapien from 300,000 years ago would not be able to understand our world today or be capable of imagining and thinking like we do. They might have looked like us but they didn’t think like us … that cognitive development didn’t happen until about 50,000-60,000 years ago. I’m no expert but in all the reading I’ve done, our modern selves and people that think, act and imagine like us didn’t exist until about 50,000 years ago.