Posted on 09/22/2024 7:19:34 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
Yeah—I think complex bureaucratic rules (like classification and compartmentalization) are a form of brainwashing.
Everyone assumes there must be a good reason for it—because everybody in authority assures them there is a good reason for it.
I am beginning to believe there is no there there—all smoke and mirrors—black magic.
but it will always be “a”.
it can mock sentience by sucking the brains out of everyone logged in at any moment, but it will always be “a.”
until, I suppose, they get a high confidence level on brainwave reading. by then I hope to have acquired a personal emp tool.
never goes out of style, even if largely forgotten.
It gets more relevant with every passing year.
Kinda hard to believe, since it was so relevant when it was made.
But the media has consolidated much more since then, and it has become globalized.
Excellent... Thank you. It is “The bigger picture” some of us speak of so often. We don’t see it because we limit our own scope of reality. It is all a big real world game of “strategy” just like the board game the powerful are playing with us.
Ever since I was a kid I got interested in this phenomenon because the old timers were always mentioning our problems coming from the greed of the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and DuPonts.
“it can mock sentience”
I think you are looking at this from one angle—probably not the best one.
Think of AI as a tool like a hammer.
The hammer is “dumb”.
Now imagine a hammer the size of a planet.
It is still “dumb” but can cause a lot of havoc if it tried to “hammer” Earth.
My issue with AI is not with how smart it can be—it is what it will do with the smarts it gets.
“Yeah—I think complex bureaucratic rules (like classification and compartmentalization) are a form of brainwashing.
Everyone assumes there must be a good reason for it—because everybody in authority assures them there is a good reason for it.
I am beginning to believe there is no there there—all smoke and mirrors—black magic.”
Well said and it absolutely is. This is not new, it is Biblical and all there as a warning.
LS: A rare look “behind the curtain” of international global political influencers, from an even more rare attitude of “I will label these collective opinions about the powers behind the throne as a conspiracy, but will discuss their network without despising the whole network as a conspiracy against/for global influence.”
Adds a few more books to read.
I am surprised such “East Coast elite insiders” insiders such the Bush family, Vanuever Bush, the Roosevelts and other Harvard and Yale CIA-State Dept alumni were included in this summary.
I read T&H. A lot of wrong analysis.
Just one other comment on human analytical skills.
Humans have a lot of trouble with analysis of huge and complex data sets.
We just get overwhelmed.
Those are where AI can be very valuable.
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Just a silly example.
Q. Do people with brown eyes have higher IQs than people with blue eyes?
We are looking at eight billion people and hard to find data on their eye color and IQ.
Presumably AI could find the data from bits and pieces on the web and then crunch some numbers.
“AI does not think. Computers are good at memory. Humans are intuitive and have can analyze things better.”
AI would not have made your “have can” grammatical error.
You are quite wrong about AI. It can and does already think and analyze things better than humans.
AI is on a very short trajectory to outsmart humans at almost anything based on thinking, logic, and analysis.
I think you may be right in distinguishing humans from AI in the area of intuition.
It does not appear to have the ability feel.
“I would like to see AI figure out which human beings have actual mass media ownership.”
At this time, AI can’t do that.
For that, you need Mr. Robot.
Why did the Roman Empire actually fall? AI based psychohistory on steroids is coming soon. Next generation AI will reveal many secrets. Vast new troves of information on genetics and pharmacology. Also physics, history and current events.
In the latter category the truth about Professor Carrol Quigley’s information on the impact of small groups of elites on recent history may turn out be very interesting, to say the least.
This piece from ChatGPT and “Dalberg-Acton” is likely on the right track, (In my opinion, because the professor did write these things, and he had no apparent reason to lie about it.) but we will know, with a high degree of certainty, in a couple of years. By evaluating vast amounts of information and looking for patterns on how one thing led to another, advanced AI will be able to give us useful new information on the past, and it will also be able to give us useful information and guidance on what course of action we should take today to achieve our goals, based on our own particular beliefs and desires.
This is one of the very important aspects of near AGI and full AGI AI that does not yet get enough attention. It will be more powerful than Hari Seldon’s “psychohistory” and it will be widely available. “ChatGPT-6, given our current X resources, how do we best achieve Y?” The AI (especially open source, unconstrained models) will provide you with a detailed and highly effective road map to your goal. And you will be able to constantly update in light of changing circumstances. If every ideological group and nation is using this very powerful tool, it will quickly create a very chaotic situation. It will profoundly destabilize an already delicately balanced world order.
I would add David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Pope John Paull II.
To add is not to promote or condone all their influences; but they were very instrumental, along with Reagan and Thatcher, in breaking the Iron Curtain and freeing Eastern Europe from Soviet domination, without a war breaking out.
I believe it is the mark of a mature intellect that seeks to find some common ground with leaders who hold a different ideology, as long as there can be some basis for relatively good-faith negotiations. The recent Reagan film illustrated Reagan's ability to do this with Gorbachev. Trump also took this stance with Kim, with Putin, XI, and a large alliance of Islamic nations who were nevertheless concerned about inter- and intramural terrorism.
This rare ability was one of the reasons we had four (very unanticipated by the left) years of peace and progress. The sanctimonious anti-Putin attitudes of the present administration, including whatever influence Hillary might still have, are childish and deadly. In fact, they are unAmerican. Our Founders warned against excessive foreign entanglements. One way to do that is not to stick our noses into every spat around the world and stir the pot on behalf of the military-industrial profiteers.
There is a category of science fiction movies that got the future completely wrong.
https://www.cbr.com/things-sci-fi-movies-got-wrong/
We live in a short term, temporary “reality”, a bubble about to burst.
Think of the potential for electro-magnetic pulse weapons to send us back to a pre-industrial, agrarian economy which virtually no one now has studied or understands.
Quigley knew, because he had been an engineer. He knew that fiat money is phoney. He knew the distinction between royal charter capitalism, financial capitalism and monopoly capitaliam.
Almost no one fixated on Tragedy & Hope has read the Anglo-American Establishment or the Evolution of Civilzations.
bkmk George Kennan
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