print “hello world”
- Intelligence requires agency (ability to commit a crime)
- “Parallelization superintelligence” ==> Limits of parallelization (one woman can have a baby in 9 months, but 9 women can’t work together to have a baby in one month). At some point, you reach a level of not only diminishing returns, but NEGATIVE returns, as systems spend all their time talking to each other and no time actually doing work. “Too big to succeed”.
- The “rise” of AI is more the fall of social skills. Auto-catalytic cycle: the less people rely on each other, the better for AI. The real harm of the Internet is reduced human inter-reliance. The story of translating Spanish.
3B. On the topic of translation: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you can’t get there”. This is true of MOST really important problems. Learn a language – you’ll discover that you don’t always agree on translations. For example, translations of the Bible.
- Papyrus intelligence (“not intelligent” doesn’t mean “not useful” – AI is like Wikipedia, useful, but not intelligent.
- Limits of computation (logic gates)
- Simulation is not reality (Champagne)
- AI cannot compete with art anymore than flowers can, or birdsong can compete with music.
- Companies are bluffing (Issac Arthur – “don’t get in a fight you can’t win…but, actually, even a fairly-matched fight is a pretty bad idea…”)
- Consciousness (specifically, self-awareness) IS required for intelligence, and computers are NOT self-aware. Examples of “multiple-plan-execution” (anaesthesia, aviation examples).
- “We can physically scale computers as much as we want” – nope, due to gravity (black-hole effect) and interdependent calculations (limits to the speed of information transmission)
- Crypto-bros
- Not all Humans are intelligent (a contgroversial take – like the “9/11 compromise” theory or saying “some humans were created by God, while others evolved”). NPCs CAN be replaced by computers. Human-ness versus personhood.
- The human brain does NOT have a limited capacity (language-learning).
- “AI is gonna take over” is shilled by people who have a financial interest in scaring you. This includes Occupation Media which wants your attention, CEOs who want investment and barriers to entry, NGOs who want money to defend against a non-existant and indeed impossible threat, and attention whores of all sorts. Yes, I am better, because I don’t suck corporate (or NGO) cock for money. The solution IS the decommercialization of the Internet (fireworks-on-a-plane example). There is no money in saying “the sky ain’t falling”, because that sort of messaging doesn’t sell umbrellae. Then again, I am not in the business of selling umbrellae – I don’t even like them!
- “Enlisted men are stupid, but devious and bear considerable watching” (US Marines handbook)
- “The same people who sold NFTs and shilled the Metaverse are now trying to convince you that computers can think” (can’t even hotbox in the Metaverse).
- “alexander de tocqueville whom I assume most Americans have read”
MUST: Terry A. DaVIS VOICE!!!