"AI," though, I think, is pure hype. On both sides--those saying it's good and those wailing that it will "exterminate" us. I think the whole argument has more to do with psyop destabilization of thought than anything else (keep everyone scared of something or hoping for something).
Super rapid data processing and pattern recognition is not intelligence, intelligence requires actual sensory input to develop (and not thermometers and tactile sensors attached to latex flesh), i mean babies are constantly in motion, soaking up everything in the environment. Intelligence also, as you say, requires "heart and soul". In other words, the intangibles that tech has no idea about. I mean, we don't have any idea, really, of what consciousness is (despite the fervent claims of neurology). We don't even know a tenth of what creatures live in the ocean! Every day new species are discovered, and the tiniest one is far more interesting than any kind of "AI bot." In other words, technologists tend to be blind to the world--the vast, amazing world. If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, kind of thing. So that's even before the discussion of AI bot left brain male discourse given a female look, which is a great point. As to the male/female differences, well, that's another long discussion. I've also heard it said, or maybe I said it myself, that women have more of a trickster aspect than men. So that we make pretty good lawyers, in fact ;)
But back to AI and bots. Like you say--Madison avenue. Pure freakin hype.
(Oh and the Frankfurt school is not to blame for wokism. I've read quite a bit of Adorno, especially. What passes for critical theory today has very little to do with what he and Horkheimer, Benjamin, etc. were writing about--which had a lot to do with trying to understand Nazism. But that's a long discussion anyway.). John Steppling writes about this a lot. https://john-steppling.com
Many who wish to live forever DO have souls but wish to avoid karma.
The sentence about uploading consciousness into machines/the internet/cyberspace gave me chills, with the feeling cyberspace is already housing dark energies, and was created with that in mind. As I write this I suddenly feel sure of it
Thank you for connecting many bots! Not only overcoming “biological constraints” of aging, ill health and death — transhumans are to survive in a trashed world, and in time, it is planned, migrate to trash others.
By replacing biological sex with ‘performative gender’ the stage is set for the trillionaires’ dollhouse and the transbot-god to rule over all life. The deadly pathetic escapism of it all...
Many good points.
"AI," though, I think, is pure hype. On both sides--those saying it's good and those wailing that it will "exterminate" us. I think the whole argument has more to do with psyop destabilization of thought than anything else (keep everyone scared of something or hoping for something).
Super rapid data processing and pattern recognition is not intelligence, intelligence requires actual sensory input to develop (and not thermometers and tactile sensors attached to latex flesh), i mean babies are constantly in motion, soaking up everything in the environment. Intelligence also, as you say, requires "heart and soul". In other words, the intangibles that tech has no idea about. I mean, we don't have any idea, really, of what consciousness is (despite the fervent claims of neurology). We don't even know a tenth of what creatures live in the ocean! Every day new species are discovered, and the tiniest one is far more interesting than any kind of "AI bot." In other words, technologists tend to be blind to the world--the vast, amazing world. If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, kind of thing. So that's even before the discussion of AI bot left brain male discourse given a female look, which is a great point. As to the male/female differences, well, that's another long discussion. I've also heard it said, or maybe I said it myself, that women have more of a trickster aspect than men. So that we make pretty good lawyers, in fact ;)
But back to AI and bots. Like you say--Madison avenue. Pure freakin hype.
(Oh and the Frankfurt school is not to blame for wokism. I've read quite a bit of Adorno, especially. What passes for critical theory today has very little to do with what he and Horkheimer, Benjamin, etc. were writing about--which had a lot to do with trying to understand Nazism. But that's a long discussion anyway.). John Steppling writes about this a lot. https://john-steppling.com
"Sophia" in Gnostic Christian and ancient Hebrew literature and thought (not reassuring):
https://gnosticismexplained.org/sophia/
Tulsi Gabbard is her own argument against sexism in any bureaucracy.
Information and understanding are good. Strict diktat is not good, as we already see.
Excellent article.
Many who wish to live forever DO have souls but wish to avoid karma.
The sentence about uploading consciousness into machines/the internet/cyberspace gave me chills, with the feeling cyberspace is already housing dark energies, and was created with that in mind. As I write this I suddenly feel sure of it
Thank you for connecting many bots! Not only overcoming “biological constraints” of aging, ill health and death — transhumans are to survive in a trashed world, and in time, it is planned, migrate to trash others.
By replacing biological sex with ‘performative gender’ the stage is set for the trillionaires’ dollhouse and the transbot-god to rule over all life. The deadly pathetic escapism of it all...