Good to see and hear your travels and trip are happening so well! Your "Remembering the Human Microcosm..." entries are excellent and oh-so-timely. I am laughing at your picture of Altman intercessorially praying for divine loomian intervention. Double irony, with Pope in the picture who himself is by some mistaken to be “infallibly” conscious. Though I don’t believe it was your intention to implicate him in the AI fantasy, he simply in this case a well-meaning culturally corrective commentator. I shared some of your primary thoughts in my less eloquent words this morning with a couple of community activist friends here in the Minneapple. About how LLMs are not "conscious" as they are being signed, sealed and delivered via advertising, billionaire engorging stock options, and YouTube techno-God cultists. This in distinction from Hegelian "Reason," and the moral repercussions of being government and corporate encaptured and enslaved as tithe paying worshipers at the altar of AI. I am also not a luddite for all the reasons you shared. Still, I am wary of the frightening prospect of quantum AI becoming the cold mechanistic banal bureaucratic/corporate lassez faire neo-liberal “godhead,” in a socio-culturally hypnotized flat physicalist world, furthering whatever “Idiocracy” is already occurring. A lot more to share. I do not want to slow down your Far East Asian explorations… John B.
I got know idea what a ma’chine might be. As for evolution vs a machine: is da ma’chine subject to random mutation and natural selection? What exactly is evolution?
Perhaps emergence and evolution ought to be simplified into the mathematical function of iteration.
I know what the Mandelbrot set will look like when iterated.
Matt,
Good to see and hear your travels and trip are happening so well! Your "Remembering the Human Microcosm..." entries are excellent and oh-so-timely. I am laughing at your picture of Altman intercessorially praying for divine loomian intervention. Double irony, with Pope in the picture who himself is by some mistaken to be “infallibly” conscious. Though I don’t believe it was your intention to implicate him in the AI fantasy, he simply in this case a well-meaning culturally corrective commentator. I shared some of your primary thoughts in my less eloquent words this morning with a couple of community activist friends here in the Minneapple. About how LLMs are not "conscious" as they are being signed, sealed and delivered via advertising, billionaire engorging stock options, and YouTube techno-God cultists. This in distinction from Hegelian "Reason," and the moral repercussions of being government and corporate encaptured and enslaved as tithe paying worshipers at the altar of AI. I am also not a luddite for all the reasons you shared. Still, I am wary of the frightening prospect of quantum AI becoming the cold mechanistic banal bureaucratic/corporate lassez faire neo-liberal “godhead,” in a socio-culturally hypnotized flat physicalist world, furthering whatever “Idiocracy” is already occurring. A lot more to share. I do not want to slow down your Far East Asian explorations… John B.
No matter what, keep on keeping on.
I got know idea what a ma’chine might be. As for evolution vs a machine: is da ma’chine subject to random mutation and natural selection? What exactly is evolution?
Perhaps emergence and evolution ought to be simplified into the mathematical function of iteration.
I know what the Mandelbrot set will look like when iterated.
I'm left to imagine that you know as much about weaving as you do about llm's.