Yesterday, I published an article for Truthdig on Sam Altman’s pro-extinctionism. “Few people in the media seem to have noticed Altman’s pro-extinctionist agenda,” I wrote. “The public is largely unaware.”
Delusion masquerading as rational thought. As Asian scholars of philosophy and ethics have observed for some time, "Westeners know how things work, but they don't know how to think [essential for an ethical way of life]." Altman has fallen prey to an outdated "essentialist/substantialist" view that assumes that the "self/ego" is a real, enduring, and immortal entity, something that cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and contemplative practice have revealed to be entirely illusory. The whole uploading-minds-to-computers idea is like trying to etch letters on water.
That is a completely insane way to view our future. Digitizing ourselves amounts to removing the very thing that defines humanity. To a digital only version of humanity (which wouldn't be humanity in the first place) would be as valuable (to humanity) as some barren rock 20 lightyears away from us: a meaningless assembly of matter subject to the laws of physics. The universe doesn't care a flying feck about humanity, nor does any lifeless assembly of inorganic components. Especially if it is not clear whether that assembly even has subjective experience. We (humanity) keep overestimating our own importance. But to ourselves(humanity) our own existence has the highest importance, and it would disappear the moment you digitize it. Just like there would be no love without earthly life to experience it. Having two machines telling each other for eternity they love each other will be a meaningless simulation noticed by no human.
The problem with Altman is that he is completely corrupted by a narrative created by western billionaires with values and norms that have become completely out of touch with who and what we truly are. And the sad thing about it is if his prediction would become reality, there will be no-one present to appreciate the (lack of) achievement.
It's fine, there's a movie about what happens when you cross AI with humans. It's called Idiocracy. I'd put my bets on Amazonian tribes winning this one
The "AI" of today, or even for the near future, is nothing like the true AGI that Sam Altman and all of the other tech circus barkers talk about when trying to amplify the AI hype machine. People today should not fall for it, and I believe your idea of a "tech apocalypse" borders on fantasy. Just my humble opinion.
I heard the tech bros are designing the end of humans. They are utterly delusional; there is no way our entire personalities can be uploaded to a computer. Computers do not work AT ALL the way human brains & bodies work. Computers do not FEEL, and what is a human without feelings? Dead!
There is no foreseeable technology that will let us model a human brain with enough fidelity to capture a personality. It's at least decades way, and perhaps it is impossible.
The belief of a paranoid psychopath. A paranoid psychopath who believes his consciousness can be uploaded into AI. The result being a paranoid psychopath in AI form.
How does he not realize that it's impossible to upload your brain like that? It's just not possible. What exactly are you uploading? Your consciousness? Where exactly is that in your brain, then? You're brain is a physical structure of complex connections between billions of neurons. Anything you "upload" would just be a copy. You are your entire body. How to you digitize that and keep YOU intact?
If he wants to merge with an AI so bad, it'll have to be like in the Matrix. Put him in a pod and connect his brain directly to the computer. But you can't upload. You gotta remain directly connected. That's it.
I've been telling friends for a year now that AI labs don't care about money or even power and just actively want to kill all humans and replace us with cyber beings because they're in an extremely lame Doomsday cult and they didn't believe me until I started showing them your newsletter
I would say Sam is ahead of the curve on this one, since it will indeed be going that way...Laughing so I do not cry...Thank you for being here...I so appreciate you...
These tech billionaires, as children, read dystopian sci-fi novels that were meant to be warnings, and said to themselves, "Wow! That's cool. I totally want to be that mad scientist someday."
They lack the understanding that if there are no longer any humans to rule over, and wealth becomes meaningless, what's the point of living on forever (even as digital beings)? Eventually, with no one else to rule over and/or impress, they'll start offing each other. The last man/robot/data point left standing will now have to battle the machines they created.
They want to coerce humanity to merge with the computer. The computer never was more than a shadow it has no existence on its own. Just imagine we would have invested the same amount of money into education and child care, the world would blossom. They knew from the start this was the agenda. This had spiritual dimensions form the beginning.
Delusion masquerading as rational thought. As Asian scholars of philosophy and ethics have observed for some time, "Westeners know how things work, but they don't know how to think [essential for an ethical way of life]." Altman has fallen prey to an outdated "essentialist/substantialist" view that assumes that the "self/ego" is a real, enduring, and immortal entity, something that cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and contemplative practice have revealed to be entirely illusory. The whole uploading-minds-to-computers idea is like trying to etch letters on water.
That is a completely insane way to view our future. Digitizing ourselves amounts to removing the very thing that defines humanity. To a digital only version of humanity (which wouldn't be humanity in the first place) would be as valuable (to humanity) as some barren rock 20 lightyears away from us: a meaningless assembly of matter subject to the laws of physics. The universe doesn't care a flying feck about humanity, nor does any lifeless assembly of inorganic components. Especially if it is not clear whether that assembly even has subjective experience. We (humanity) keep overestimating our own importance. But to ourselves(humanity) our own existence has the highest importance, and it would disappear the moment you digitize it. Just like there would be no love without earthly life to experience it. Having two machines telling each other for eternity they love each other will be a meaningless simulation noticed by no human.
The problem with Altman is that he is completely corrupted by a narrative created by western billionaires with values and norms that have become completely out of touch with who and what we truly are. And the sad thing about it is if his prediction would become reality, there will be no-one present to appreciate the (lack of) achievement.
It's fine, there's a movie about what happens when you cross AI with humans. It's called Idiocracy. I'd put my bets on Amazonian tribes winning this one
the Techno-Fascist Echo Chamber is a dystopian, psychotic world.
this guy is such a fucking joke. I'm so tired of these bafoons being so relevant and having to hear about them.
SAME HERE. It's a version of hell (!!) that we have to pay attention to what they say. I hate it at least as much as you do, lol.
The "AI" of today, or even for the near future, is nothing like the true AGI that Sam Altman and all of the other tech circus barkers talk about when trying to amplify the AI hype machine. People today should not fall for it, and I believe your idea of a "tech apocalypse" borders on fantasy. Just my humble opinion.
I heard the tech bros are designing the end of humans. They are utterly delusional; there is no way our entire personalities can be uploaded to a computer. Computers do not work AT ALL the way human brains & bodies work. Computers do not FEEL, and what is a human without feelings? Dead!
100% agree.
There is no foreseeable technology that will let us model a human brain with enough fidelity to capture a personality. It's at least decades way, and perhaps it is impossible.
The belief of a paranoid psychopath. A paranoid psychopath who believes his consciousness can be uploaded into AI. The result being a paranoid psychopath in AI form.
Is he volunteering to go first?
How does he not realize that it's impossible to upload your brain like that? It's just not possible. What exactly are you uploading? Your consciousness? Where exactly is that in your brain, then? You're brain is a physical structure of complex connections between billions of neurons. Anything you "upload" would just be a copy. You are your entire body. How to you digitize that and keep YOU intact?
If he wants to merge with an AI so bad, it'll have to be like in the Matrix. Put him in a pod and connect his brain directly to the computer. But you can't upload. You gotta remain directly connected. That's it.
100% agree. I'll probably write an article about this soon!
Would love to read it!
I've been telling friends for a year now that AI labs don't care about money or even power and just actively want to kill all humans and replace us with cyber beings because they're in an extremely lame Doomsday cult and they didn't believe me until I started showing them your newsletter
Wonderful…
Lol!
I would say Sam is ahead of the curve on this one, since it will indeed be going that way...Laughing so I do not cry...Thank you for being here...I so appreciate you...
Thanks so much. :-) Same!
This is precisely the kind of idiotic musing that makes most of the general public anxious and fearful of AI.
https://kennetheharrell.substack.com/p/ai-consent-and-the-right-to-opt-out
These tech billionaires, as children, read dystopian sci-fi novels that were meant to be warnings, and said to themselves, "Wow! That's cool. I totally want to be that mad scientist someday."
They lack the understanding that if there are no longer any humans to rule over, and wealth becomes meaningless, what's the point of living on forever (even as digital beings)? Eventually, with no one else to rule over and/or impress, they'll start offing each other. The last man/robot/data point left standing will now have to battle the machines they created.
Bro’s got Burning Man Brain
They want to coerce humanity to merge with the computer. The computer never was more than a shadow it has no existence on its own. Just imagine we would have invested the same amount of money into education and child care, the world would blossom. They knew from the start this was the agenda. This had spiritual dimensions form the beginning.