As became blatant in 2020 during the Birdemic and its aftermath; under a totalitarian regime, where all social functions are part of a single system; credentials, jobs, promotions, publications grants, status... all the markers of expertise; are controlled by The System.
Therefore, as well as nobody in public discourse being honest or trustworthy (because they have, instead, been selected for the opposite traits) - you cannot rely on experts being expert At All.
Anyone who cares to reason for himself can see that incoherent garbage is promoted and treated as if it was the result of exceptional insight, ability and knowledge.
This has become evident in the discourse around the current self-styled AI (Artificial Intelligence). Incredible quantities of sheer nonsense are being generated and debated with apparent seriousness on this theme by people who will - apparently - think, speak or write anything their Masters require of them; and by those gullible enough to treat such outputs as valid.
I means the stuff about AI taking-over, AI becoming sentient or self-aware, AI having moral rights...
One can only shake the head incredulously when such drivel is taken with seriousness. It is not even wrong, because such conversations do not rise to the level of being capable of truth and reality.
It is PSYOPS pure and simple - and it works - because too many people are so corrupt that they actually want AI to be something it cannot possibly be at all ever.
Our world is replete with such stuff, however, so that AI discourse hardly stands-out against the systemic lies, manipulations, and corruptions of the many Litmus Test issues such as Birdemic, climate change, contrived mutually destructive wars, planned economic destruction and starvation.
There is little cause for optimism since the Global Establishment believe their own lies; because they think that civilizational chaos can be flipped into the world of omni-surveillance and micro-control which are regarded as necessary and good.
Meanwhile, the demons behind the scenes have set up a raft of win-win situations - of evil versus evil options.
And people are oblivious; hence self-damned.
So keen are we to "do something constructive" and implement answers; that people cannot perceive what is plain.
That is our minimal and vital task in this mortal life. Simply to see what is happening, discern good from evil, and learn from it.
That is valuable in itself, and the only basis for good action. Otherwise we are part of the problem.
Unfortunately, the marketing has been very effective with this. By calling this technology AI, then people end up thinking that it must have some relation to every other methodology to get machines to imitate human behavior (including fictional ones).
ReplyDeleteIt feels weird reading machine produced writing (and I try to avoid it) because I know it's just words strung together with no understanding.
I'd rather read a well-written article by a human. Old search engines were good at finding those, even the old pages of links were helpful for that. At enormous cost of electricity and manpower, people are being given something worse than a 1998 search engine. And yet we're supposed to believe that we're now more advanced and smarter than ever.
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ReplyDelete"At enormous cost of electricity and manpower, people are being given something worse than a 1998 search engine. And yet we're supposed to believe that we're now more advanced and smarter than ever."
That's a very good point, which I haven't seen made before.
Few people realize, or perhaps they don't believe, how incredibly powerful and useful search engines were twenty years ago.
It strikes me that the truly colossal degradation of search engines over the past 15 years - to the current point of near uselessness - may have been part of a strategy preparing for the top-down imposition of "AI".