Artificial Intelligence
AI, Transhumanism & Technocracy
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If AI reasons wrong just as its creators do, is there any actual purpose other than manipulating public perceptions?
The pinnacle of natural intelligence is being able to instantly and correctly assess complex real-life situations and to immediately know the best course of action; that is the measure AI has to meet (not fooling the easily fooled). (2024)
Amazingly, many actually applaud AI that allows our betters to better loot, lie and spy for ever more profit and control. (2024)
It seems rather shameless to plagiarize all expressions of humanity's past, present and future natural intelligence and creativity and call it artificial intelligence. (2024)
Information or data cannot be conscious no matter the amount or the manner of its processing. (2024)
AI that always reveals the full truth about everything is unlikely to ever be allowed to exist (at least publicly). (2024)
Machine Man billionaires with a God complex want their machines appear to be more human while making actual humans ever less so. (2024)
Programmed accordingly, AI can always pretend to be intelligent, conscious and alive but it will be neither, ever.
P.S. Current and future AI may fool many, but not the naturally (highly) intelligent who have read Beyond Machine Man: Who we really are and why Transhumanism is just an empty promise! (2021)... ;-) (2024)
Only fools waste time and think for themselves when much smarter AI generously provided by benevolent billionaires knows far better anyway, right? ;-) (2024)
Eventually, we really should have a world government ruled by a supremely intelligent AI, safely and effectively programmed by benevolent billionaires who surely would never even think about betraying our trust, right? (2023)
The fact that we do have free will proves that we don't live in a simulation; free will cannot be simulated otherwise it wouldn't be free. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
The simulation hypothesis is not just implausible and irrational, but also highly dangerous as it turns real life into a real video game: everything goes because nothing is real anyway. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
A wide range of harmless sounding ‘off-target effects’ are likely to hinder the widespread adoption of both gene editing and therapies. Besides unintended genetic modifications and mutations, there is the propensity for lasting genetic damage (as in permanently changing our or other species), the initiation of all kinds of tumors and cancers, and you can’t make it up, a “significantly increased mortality.” Wow, that sure is an off-target effect! ~ Beyond Machine Man
Reality is that our brains and minds are essentially a near total mystery. So no matter the fervent desire or exuberant enthusiasm of Homo Digitalis – the transhumanist subspecies of Machine Man – wanting to live forever, it is obviously not going to be a simple matter of copy and paste, or plug and play. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
The piling of two 'might happen' on top of two assumptions to make an assertion of truth puts the simulation theory well and truly in the realm of science fiction, not science fact. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
Homo Digitalis hates the very idea of a God, but loves to play God by creating algorithms they hope will turn into a God to first serve then rule us all.
~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
Transhumanism is a bit of a cult for the scientifically challenged and spiritually starved. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
Never mind the details, Homo Digitalis hopes to perpetually enjoy highly augmented forms of cybersex and other superlative sensual and intellectual delights. Besides totally awesome physical prowess. To forever lord over the ordinary folks that can't possibly afford any such things. Sorry, but regular folks just have to keep dying. After they've finished a lifetime full of hard work, that is. Doing the things robots can't do yet. Or will refuse to do because it would simply be beneath them.
~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
Transhumanists believe and preach sermons like this: “The computer knows best. Or better than us. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will save us from ourselves, from making mistakes, from the many human errors that lead to the destruction of our world. We dumb humans need to be saved by smart machines; we are fallible and can't trust ourselves so we have to trust infallible machines; we imperfect beings have to merge with perfect machines, and all will be well.” ~ Beyond Machine Man / (2023; 1 & 2 & 3)
AI is safe and effective; it safely discourages people from thinking for themselves and effectively tells us what to believe. (2023)
Computers will never become conscious as consciousness is not made by matter or bits and bytes. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2023)
What would be the value of recovering and preserving all of our past hallucinations, if that were even possible? It would be like a digital photo album nobody ever watches. Who would really care to see or feel every mental and emotional mirage the mere illusions of aunt Margaret or uncle Bill ever had over the course of their lifetimes?
~ Beyond Machine Man (2022; 1 & 2)
Perhaps one day, quantum physics will be able to show that we, the who we really are, cause constant quantum collapses with our thoughts and deliberations, with our observations and desires. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2022)
Presumably, even a supercomputer that were to magically become conscious would get bored replaying somebody else's recordings of their now dead brain's past hallucinations. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2022)
Today's AI is not much more than pattern-recognition software performed by computers that can execute such boring tasks faster than we humans can.
~ Beyond Machine Man (2022)
So the idea that we really have to merge with machines in order to keep up with AI, another splendid idea of Elon Musk, is simply nonsense. Or fearmongering. Most likely it is all about self promotion. Nowadays it's called 'shockvertising' (shock advertising). It sells well. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2022; 1 & 2)
From bit to it (information to matter) however is only partially true.
~ Beyond Machine Man (2022)
Not knowing any of the basic answers to all of the crucial questions however is certainly no obstacle to diehard disciples of transhumanism and their newly-found religion for atheists. And a religion it sure is; it is featuring all the required hallmarks and dogmatic beliefs. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2022)
In short, messing around with our genes, upsetting a finely balanced ecosystem, creating genomic instability, and disrupting the functionality of otherwise perfectly normal genes is just not a very smart idea. Machine Man still has to wise up to the basic formula of 'If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.' Especially so since any damage done cannot be reverted back to normal, and even worse, will affect many future generations to come. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2021)
Software that is generally referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI) will never come even close to natural intelligence (NI) which we still don't understand at all.
~ Beyond Machine Man (2021)
Furthermore, AI (a.k.a. automated idiots) will not exceed HI (human intelligence). And computers will never become conscious (as consciousness is not made by matter or bits and bytes), or God-like (as in turning into some kind of super intelligent, all-knowing and all-powerful sentient entity or being). ~ Beyond Machine Man (1 & 2)
Homo Digitalis [the transhumanist subspecies of Machine Man] believes that they are the most rational people ever. They claim to only believe in what science says. Yet amazingly, most actually don't seem to know what neuroscience really says about who they are. ~ Beyond Machine Man / (2021; 1 & 2)
On CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, from chapter Homo Digitalis:
The technique results in far more errors than previously thought. And worse, it is also more difficult to actually find and eliminate such defective and unwanted outcomes. Which of course is not exactly what transhumanist hopefuls would like to hear.
~ Beyond Machine Man / (2021; 1 & 2 & 3)
'Oops, your baby girl will just have to live with a lot of rather long facial hair, besides having only three fingers and four toes. But don't worry, we now know the problem and it will be fixed on your next child.'
Also from chapter Homo Digitalis on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing... the last meta-research published in 2020 came to the conclusion that “only one in ten medical treatments are backed by high-quality evidence.”
~ Beyond Machine Man / (2021; 1 & 2 & 3)
Obviously, there is no machinery we can build that comes even remotely close to this kind of miniaturized marvel of biological engineering. Beaten by a single-celled bacteria (without a PhD). ~ Beyond Machine Man (2021)
P.S. For full context, read the second challenge of My 3 public Challenges to transhumanist Homo Digitalis!
If we really were only a hallucinating user illusion, a conscious mind that has nothing to say and can only observe the machinations of the subconscious mind, both supposedly being the creations of the brain, why would we want to transfer the brain's illusions anyway? ~ Beyond Machine Man / (2021; 1 & 2)
Which of course would raise the hypothetical question of who would really be in charge of it all: the magically suddenly conscious machine or the essence of the billionaire whose body (and brain) has died? Well, maybe they would take turns in some kind of futuristic marriage arrangement. Till death do them part. Or rather, something else like the repeated failure to pay their mutual electricity bills or ordering crucial spare parts in time. Oops.
Or maybe it is their endless posthuman squabbling about differing romantic needs, choices of food or political preferences that will lead to a literally messy divorce or some gory domestic violence that may very well prove fatal. Who knows.
~ Beyond Machine Man / (2021; 1 & 2 & 3)
Transhumanism after all is a project of the elite continuing the ancient occult pursuit of becoming immortal gods and rule happily ever after. ~ Beyond Machine Man (2021)
And likewise, cryogenically frozen brains, with or without their bodies still attached, a favorite insurance policy play of the very wealthy and desperately hopeful, are still dead too. Just like the frozen steaks in your freezer department (or frozen tofu, for vegans). They will never ever turn into a living and grazing cow again (or sprouting soybean), no matter the hyped and hoped for technology to be.
~ Beyond Machine Man / (2020; 1 & 2)
Ultimately, transhumanism is just an empty promise by people who are mortally afraid of dying. ~ Beyond Machine Man / (2020)
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