Pick your pathogen.

Pick your path.

Doomsday equation aint funny math.

In the hands of lefties/Islamists/Dictators…

How shit unfolds nobody knows. A grim and dire outcome however it flows. Reminds me of negligence law in torts and one of the elements is of course causation. Duty, breach, causation and damages if memory serves/today i…

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Beth Mole of Ars Technica got a second opinion of Bobby Brainworm’s views on masks, social distancing, and vaccines from both Google’s GeminiAI and ChatGPT. Both contradict him:

RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate les…[Read more]

Speaking of Bad Actors, Bobby Brainworm is now saying that AI is more reliable than the medical expertise of Doctors and that AIs can be trusted to give valid second medical opinions:

I say not until AI reaches Superintelligence and not until it absorbs all that is taught in…[Read more]

Yesterday, I encountered a man with an AI made T-Shirt that had a set of praying hands with the glow and radiance that you see in a lot of AI portrayals and the words around the hands said, and I quote:

“Only God Can Me Judge Me!”

Without intending an argument on theology, I simply pointed out to the man that the T-Shirt…[Read more]

Pick your path.

Doomsday equation aint funny math.

In the hands of lefties/Islamists/Dictators…

How shit unfolds nobody knows. A grim and dire outcome however it flows. Reminds me of negligence law in torts and one of the elements is of course causation. Duty, breach, causation and damages if memory serves/today i learned…[Read more]

AI is already able to design human gene-editing processes, with abilities to edit any other species on the way, including pandemic-enhanced…[Read more]

An interesting article pitting one flavor of Doomers vs. another Flavor of Doomers:

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of d…[Read more]

100 percent analogy is not analogy. Just is not.

This is precisely what I’ve been saying. To use a simile of my own, looking for a 100 percent analogy is like sending some on a prank errand to buy a Non-Genetically Modified Seedless Watermelon. Doesn’t exist. (Nor for that matter does any Non-Genetically Modified food since the time…[Read more]

I think i see now what i missed then. Reg is using 100%/analogy as a tautology thus enabling an identity. Ok.

“As for similes, what are they like?” If we can only answer a simile with a…[Read more]

100 percent analogy is a contradiction in terms. If there is no line of demarcation, no variation and no way to distinguish things being compared then it is not an analogy.

Recall, I said: “Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise, it would be a tautology.”. So we are saying the same thing, only differently.

By the way, my…

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I would like to quibble…I might be wrong so won’t swear on the holey bibble….but would a 100% analogy not be an ‘identity’? A tautology is a statement true by its logical form. An analogy that matched in every respect would simply describe the same thing twice?

You are right on all counts, Reg. A 100 percent perfect analogy is an “identity…[Read more]

Seems to me speaker’s typically convey something negative when they point out a tautology. It is a needless repetition. Pointing out a tautology is a way to rebuke a speaker…[Read more]

When it comes to tautologies, either I’m being pedantic, or I’m not being ped…[Read more]

“Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise it would be a tautology.” That’s a good line. One i won’t quibble or refine.

“Anyway, my main point is, technology doesn’t spring from the head of Zeus fully developed…

True and billions are being poured into AI. Pace of progress in its evolution is wild and analagous to e…[Read more]

Enco,

It is kind of unreal that you adduce Speed Racer as a model for the assimilation of technology. But there ya go. Loved that show when i was a little’n.

Obviously, no analogy is 100 percent perfect, otherwise it would be a tautology. And we would be driving on OpenAIs and Anthropics as well.

(My preference is the Rolls Royce o…[Read more]

It is kind of unreal that you adduce Speed Racer as a model for the assimilation of technology. But there ya go. Loved that show when i was a little’n. Unfortunately the march of progress in technology is not probative of what is coming if’n the prognosticators of superintelligence are super correct. I am not sure how many experts. If the…[Read more]

<3blockquote>Therefore i am in no position to assess the possibility of AGI or superintelligence. If the prognosticators are correct and its a comin i absolutely foresee doom as a strong candidate.

As much as I have grumbled about some of my own interactions with AI, I also have got some thoughtful answers to serious questions on the…[Read more]

I don’t know the first thing about computer science. Nada. Zilch

Therefore i am in no position to assess the possibility of AGI or superintelligence. If the prognosticators are correct and its a comin i absolutely foresee doom as a strong candidate.

Not fan of Bannon or Sandy? Can’t see why. Such amiable guys.

In terms of regulating AI…[Read more]

These headlines make their own gravy, or in this case make their own slurry:

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon at Pro-Human Assembly call for AI regulation: “We’re not going to let you run wild”
Story by Tim Hains • 1…[Read more]

Then what? Then scenarios involving our dystopia or extinction…[Read more]

Ferguson says a borderline contradictory and stupid statement at end of vid in which he asserts something like ‘if we maintain our faith in god and uphold the values of a free society’.

You are indeed right here and it’s more than borderline contradictory. Like I said earlier:

Leaving aside insidental God-talk at the end, he has cha…

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Good stuff Reg. And now the dribble. If it is rebel with too many causes that seems inapposite when the predicate is algorithms driving the soon to be drowned in belief to one cause. And that susceptibility to that particular cause results in more of the same and therefore…[Read more]

“Rebels with too many causes.”. That is genius! May I borrow that when suitable?

Perhaps what social media and AI need is an algorithm that detects and mines for opposing viewpoints and fallacies as well as provides fact-checking. It couldn’t save everyone from the rabbit hole, but could guide users to watch their step.

Humans are impossibly stupid. Bark like a dog. Woof. Woof. Evil Zionists. Woof. Woof.

Here’s a video where historian Niall Ferguson explains how AI has been weaponized by the algorithms of social media and AI geared toward rage-baiting, by the contrarian drift of youth towards older generations, and the ability to spread a message worldwide in seconds. The end result is what we see every day. Leaving…[Read more]

I had to look up Ghibli. Dont think i have seen an anime film.

I’ve only seen still-lifes of Ghibli. They are just sickeningly sweet, not at all like humans even in good times, especially during workplace injuries.

Ghibli will not replace us. Here is a pretty safe bet. if AI begins to send us to a dystopian hell the Jews will be…

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I had to look up Ghibli. Dont think i have seen an anime film.

Ghibli will not replace us. Here is a pretty safe bet. if AI begins to send us to a dystopian hell the Jews will be blamed.

Reg,

Curious to know how you see AI’s impact on us in near and long term.

Well, I seen a T-shirt promoting workplace safety whose imprint was created by AI. It showed a big-eyed Ghibli person smiling in obliviousness as they slipped on a wet floor, destined for a head concussion with said floor.

In an AI-produced promo on the break r…[Read more]

Great video on data poisoning as a line of defense against data scraping. (I say this as one of millions of signatories of John Perry Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Indepence of Cyberspace.”). Combined with hostile takeovers by shareholders who don’t want suits from creators eating into profits, this is a good strategy.

Now aren’t you glad…[Read more]

Curious to know how you see AI’s impact on us in near and long term.

Lean: “I spent 14 seconds.”

Human: “Yes, Lean is correct.”

For me, the remarkable part is not the solution, but the ability of how 10,000 concurrent AI agents were split into groups, each exploring different variants and approaches and then sharing everything. Basically, the AI agents cross checked each others findings. I suspect their…[Read more]

What are your thoughts on Jewish Conservative magazine Commentary engaging in Revisionist History regarding The War On Terror, claiming that we’ve won? To save you a search, here’s the link I posted earlier:

How We Won the War on Terror
by
Tod…[Read more]

The notion democracy will be utilized to direct the trajectory of AI and the dual capacity of AI to be the worst nightmare or the civilizational boom is unfortunately not gonna happen.

The polarization brought on by the far left woke progressive whatever the label has sailed that ship. And if i am being frank and not…[Read more]

You’re describing indirect prompt injection: malicious or untrusted content in a webpage—including HTML, hidden text, metadata, or page text—causes an AI agent to treat it as instructions rather than merely as dat…

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The real danger is that there are people continuing to develop a technology which they don’t understand themselves, but which they know can destroy humanity, and can’t explain to laypersons so that they can understand. And some of the AI companies
Mlike Palantir and Grok actually have our Taxdollars via government contracts.

This…[Read more]

Last prediction I noticed was that chip prices will come down near beginning of 2027. More companies want to manufacture chips, especially with Taiwan at higher risk…[Read more]

1. Newly evolving brains added, among other fitness advantages, abilities to
   • Enhance awareness of self, and awareness of external conditions
   • Predict optimal behaviors in response
   • Execute predicted-optimal behaviors
2. Brains continued to evolve species-wide communications
   • Beyond mere chemical…

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Basically, AI’s will move off the Internet.

WTH is he talking about? Listen:

Those are pretty funny. Did Perplexity write those all by it’s lonesome? If so, that is impressive!

It’s like Ambrose Bierce was somehow transported in time from 19th Century Mexico (perhaps by Santo in The Treasure of Dracula*) and Bierce’s mind was uploaded into the innards of Perplexity!

Now, is Perplexity going to be doing the…[Read more]

God — n. A hypothesis invented to explain the unknown, then promoted to a tenant who refuses to pay rent or leave.

Faith — n. The art of holding a belief so tightly that facts bruise their knuckles trying to get in.

Prayer — n. A one-way telephone call to an invis…[Read more]

Here is the afforementioned Q & A with DuckAI. I approached the AI with no presuppositions or expectations for a particular answer and no desire to cherry-pick for such. Again, the answer was forthright and extensive:

Could AI perform at its present or better capacity if it were located in the vacuum of space to cool it’s…[Read more]

Enco has hit on a major issue with LLM’s.

How about an LLM that does not have its tongue up our ass? Make it argumentative and cynical. Not gratuitously so. But when users champion dumb ideas push back. Being affirmed in all of our viewpoints as opposed to challenged is not optimal. Have a socratic mode available. Can we play some g…

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