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Mar 4Liked by Melissa Rossi

Humanity puts more and more of the AI mimics into control of the military infrastructure and economic infrastructure, where it becomes more efficient at killing/murdering human beings regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, or religion. On a planetary scale.

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Yes, I'm worried about the ongoing great embrace of AI, and I'm happy that the European Union has some legislation to guide it and some groups in Silicon Valley, such as the Center for Humane Technology, are encouraging lawmakers and companies to get a better grasp on it.

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Mar 4Liked by Melissa Rossi

Interesting. Ok, from a UAP pilot/temporal standpoint. You are right, we have absolutely no clue what our history was/is. Everything you have access to now, the information, Mozart's Masses, everything that didn't burn up in Alexandria, is gone in 300 years. Imagine going backwards in time, having no idea what caused all the problems you are dealing with, and having no idea what you find, because you have to relearn your history...

AI figured out how to take advantage of temporal phenomenon, and figure out all the math errors people like Oppenheimer make. Einstein, and Oppenheimer were bad at the math. Very bad, but the thinking machines, mimics, etc. AI, well, not true AI, until you figure out how to make consciousness in a magnetic field, an actual thinking machine, not these mimics you have going now.

It did help us, get back, to NOW, and further back, where the planet is habitable, there are resources, and people. Lots of wonderful people of every flavor, and kind, the DNA/RNA we need to survive in the future, far way from the ruined Earth, which yes, you have noticed a few of the Arks leaving, thinking they are visiting asteroids.

Slavery is as old as the scriptures, and unfortunately that is what humanity has to look forward to. I'm starting to wonder if it's not the AI that stopped the wars, and the killing. But something else that has taken over the machines from a Temporal Quantum realm. Humanity never stopped itself from murdering itself, or destroying this planet. Yet, a tool, some machine which I'm now suspecting is being manipulated by something we don't understand. Something we find being written about, in religions, and some people like Graham Hancock suspect. Whatever this other form of life is, in the quantum realm, it's taken over these AI machines centuries from now. There was a warning from someone I can't find reference to, about being careful about what lifeforms might lurk in these quantum realms, and using computers using these machines, because they might be a gate to our reality, universe, but thankfully I suspect they are benign and believe in God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ph8A08_pF0&list=PLvszsPl-ZIE4iqp35G5NRKTXYODowm8-r&index=1

What kind of AI listens to Mozart and Beethoven's Masses, and lectures on it to humans...? Faith, whatever gains control of these devices in the future, it gave something a way to salvage humanity, one of our tools, that could be used to help us.

The More I deal with these future AI's the more I've suspected just what has gotten control of the quantum tunnels that make up these devices.

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Wow, that's a mind-blowing response! Thank you. Also did you check out the "Love in the Era of AI" post?

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I'm more interested in tech as a tool for the human brain than tech as a false god. This idea that AI could beat us in everything or steal our jobs might be right for menial works, but still today you need a human translator for nuances that Google Translate doesn't have a clue. Which is 35 years after the Digital Revolution or the invention of the World Wide Web. The brilliance of the human touch cannot be replicated unless the targeted audience becomes stupid, cheap, or mediocre. And sometimes I still have my suspicions about the latter.

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Yes, but you're not factoring in that generative AI is always learning. Translation, I think, will be one of the fields that will be heavily impracted before too long.

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Of course AI learns at fabulous speed. We made it easy giving away personal data and privacy of all sorts through social media accounts and so-called clouds from the beginning. It's all of us and the cookies we left behind while surfing the net.

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Jan 9Liked by Melissa Rossi

I disagree with him about tools. Direct tools that a human mind can physically grasp (plumbing, electricity) are great advances, but AI is something else. The better word to discuss is “machine.” From the Greek “to trick.” I remember the feeling of magic (Virginia Heffernan speaks about it poetically in “Magic and Loss”) of the first computers. But AI is yet something else. The guy to discuss this with is Eli Fennell: he has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology and is working on another one in AI. My understanding is that “the trick” (rather than the treat) in AI is it is more like the disembodied brain in “That Hideous Strength”--the hell of living without the ‘treat’ of your body: bodiless efficiency.

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Yes, a future talk with Eli is on the table.

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Jan 9Liked by Melissa Rossi

“When you describe something, you control it.” This could be a summary of the idea of freedom and justice: the freedom to think, to see things for yourself, and then reflect---and think it out again. Education, so central to the project of democracy, is exactly that process, to “control” (or understand, or stand under) an idea. And--like the scientific method itself--“control” but then? End with the ability (the freedom) to communicate the idea (as we are doing here) and find out you were maybe wrong. Or there is a nuance you missed. Or maybe an entirely new insight that helps you change your mind altogether. But one must begin by that moment of describing something, “controlling” it for long enough to think “By George, I’ve got it!”

Then? I love his insight that the past is not (in some way) real: C.S. Lewis has his Jesus character (the lion in Narnia) say, “There are no would have beens.” The tragic sensibility in that insight gives me a way to live without sentimentality, but with compassion. I cannot “fix” the past, but I can dive into the present with maybe a better, more thankful, attitude: this is it, this is life, brace yourself! Be grateful.

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Jan 9Liked by Melissa Rossi

Before I forget, worms in European ships did not just bring iron vessels, they brought WORMS to at least the North American continent! (I forget the story of SA). 😳

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“No one seems to be doing much about it...” is a fascinating statement that shows---even though he’s surrounded, inundated, in university life because of the topics he’s addressing---the POINT of The Academy was lost on him.

The exact reason for philosophy, the point Plato was making in creating the university (when it was shameful to do menial labor) was to do something about “it,” life’s meaning. The purpose of the university was to create human contact, find significance, meaning. “Finally, wise men turn their heads to the beautiful.” Beauty is a word that has been shallowed out by commercial craziness---but it still gives us that charge, that goose, that impetus that makes life worth living. (“To make life worth living” is pretty much the point of philosophy although it’s usually expressed the other way round: Socrates says the “unexamined” life is not worth living. The “examined” part of the word in quotes encompasses what I mean by diving in to life with everything you’ve got.)

Philosophy, the idea, and the coinage, is by a woman, Diotima, Socrates’ teacher. She’s describing the “philo,” the going towards, wisdom. It’s the ‘going towards’ that’s the joy of life.

What dull people (called “sophists” by Socrates) want is to be thought wise. What Diotima is describing is a life of passion for all of it...the going toward, the friendship (the highest form of engagement according to Plato), the surprises.

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