Did We Just Get Artificial A.I. ?
Tribalism, Trump, and Turning Machines or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Clown World
*this article is dedicated to the anonymous Patriot who wrote about the Sentient World Machine during the winter of 2022 on 4chan. Whoever you are, thank you. And to all the "conspiracy theorists" - from Hong Kong to London - who have felt the pain of seeing the lie of the world. This one's for you.
Yesterday the Associated Press described an interview they had previously conducted with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, Arati Prabhakar. She's got concerns about artificial intelligence. "Some of the things we see are big and obvious," remarked Prabhakar from a government sponsored (actually the White House) hacker conference in Las Vegas earlier this August where she spoke with AP. "If you break the guardrails of a chat-bot, which people do routinely, and coax it to tell you how to build a weapon, well, clearly that’s concerning. Some of the harms are much more subtle. When these systems are trained off human data, they sometimes distill the bias that’s in that data."
Maybe someone should tell her that the people who have the aptitude to hack an A.I. chat-bot aren't the one's who need directions to make a weapon. I really hope that comment is not a glimpse of her positioning on this issue, she gets paid way too much to think baby thoughts, no baby thoughts around super advanced technologies. Once again, like with climate change, things are pretty close to being your fault here. If we're not careful, we're going to mess A.I. up and we're going to need to be saved...
It seems as though the topic of A.I. has really gotten a foothold in people's minds ever since chat-bots like ChatGPT, GPT4, and Ernie 3.5 (Earnie's Chinese) we're released to the public. From Joe Rogan to John Lennox and the White House to state legislatures - A.I. is a trending topic in the newscycles...So I guess we should be thinking about it and preparing ourselves (to be saved) for what could (inevitably) go awry. Forget all of computer science by the way too, hardened systems engineering can't apply to A.I. right..? "It'll upload itself into a vacuum cleaner and escape," - the way to protect ourselves is by linking our brains with it. Then we'll be safe because of our fleshy will power over the chip in your skull (which is networked to the planet). Oh yeah, you can make infinite money too, it's so obvious...
(deep, deep, facepalm)
..."But what do the chat-bots mean?" It's almost comical how these bots play into our current world of misinformation. How they enhance it. Like an anti-salt flavoring our anti-truths to perfection. According to Prabhakar - our flawed human data is confusing this thing and it's spitting out bias. Even worse, apparently people can hack chat-bots and get blueprints for Armageddon.
(deep, deep, nausea)
Dear Main-Stream-Media (MSM),
Thank you for helping to inform us about artificial intelligence (A.I.). Here it comes and apparently, there's some real dangers associated with this new technology (or something). We understand it does really weird stuff sometimes and it even lies sometimes. We'll be on the look out. :) We got it MSM. We're suddenly the parents of a digital kid, and if we don't raise this kid correctly, they will grow up to destroy civilization. We'll try not to be so flawed as we're analyzed from a thousand vectors hidden behind a wall of technical complexity few can begin to comprehend.
Sincerely Yours,
Our Lives Are Your Data Points
Yes friends, the chat-bots are capturing your data too. Like a baby learning bad words and saying them at Thanksgiving in front of everybody. The sins of the father passed from blood to circuits. Is this gloomy forecast really the starting point for A.I.?
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I mean seriously people, do we really believe this stuff? "Microsoft bought a company called OpenAI and now the age of A.I. is here..."
How far out do militaries and government's develop technology? Well that's actually the wrong question. They develop technology right at the bleeding edge of what people are capable of, in real time. It's us "regular" folks who actually lag behind these institutions and organizations, whatever people group supporting them being irrelevant. Conservative figures are between ten and twenty years out from what we know as the frontier of all that is STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths). So does that mean the military industrial complex has had A.I. for twenty years already? And if so, why pretend otherwise?
We're talking about technology here and the race to develop it for the plethora of advantages that exist for those who possess it; "it" being that which is more capable then what you had yesterday. From the stock market to outer space, which race do you want to talk about? If you think the A.I. race just started, we would like to suggest the contrary, and talk about what that means.
I want to believe A.I. is new...but America...
Most people understand [that regular society adopts technology from the military long after its' original development] this well because there is some element of direct cross over into our regular lives and how we get the technologies that we have. It's how we get our remote controls. We have our chip-sets for this and that. And we plan our systems around the chip development life-cycle etc...Every 18 months and so on and so forth...There's radio and radar. GPS and wireless. Even our cars eventually employ the new technologies developed by their brands' "racing divisions," and we get a new "sport" model to buy, and it has a remote control too.
From the dentist office to food distribution in disaster zones, it's the new technologies that are always the answers. And a lot of times they can be. And a lot of times they aren't. But is this the narrative closet to reality? I mean we're talking about the technology of technologies here. The last tech humanity will ever invent alone. From here on out it's us and A.I. - partners.
Surely however, this cannot be the all-in-all of what is happening around us, could it? The military-industrial-base of the most rich and powerful nation ever is getting A.I. right as you can Star Link into ChatGPT from the van that you live in (down by the river) (right by the beach). Cause the Pentagon and Van-Life bro...obviously. It's just too plain cheese.
While it is true that the U.S. Air Force did make a super computer out of PlayStation 3's (1760 of them, networked together) we'd be stupid to think this is how things work in that sphere of influence when it comes to computer's - and especially when it comes to A.I.. Linking a bunch of Tamagotchi's together might increase your processing power, but you're not going to get A.I. The government and the military are not waiting for NVIDIA to release a new gadget, or intel a new chip, and they are not using Macbook Pros.
No - just like with digital or STEALTH or body armor - the military especially develops technology way into the future; or what is our future as we lag behind these organizations in developing and adopting (their) technologies. These are the technologies of the US' black budget, the covert development and appropriation pipeline for the most important technologies. Digital cameras. Radios. Ambulances. Duct tape. Canned food. The space programs. And all of that was about one-hundred years ago already. I wonder what the powers-that-be in those arenas have been up to.
Something stinks and it's not Skunk-Works, although Lockheed Martin might need an A.I. for one of their airplanes...Sorry their space-planes...Sorry their...like seriously Lockheed what did Ben Rich mean when he said whatever he said about being about to "take E.T. home." I mean, if UFO's are piloted (regardless of who is driving) like...are they steering that thing going that fast? Do they have a computer helping pilot it? Is hyperspace involved? ...is there AM/FM radio? ...is...there...a...remote...control?
Are we to believe that these hierarchies, which inherited the world, are simply adopting and developing A.I. right alongside the rest of us? Are we to believe that the technology truly didn't exist beforehand and that they were waiting for it to be introduced from the private sector the same as we were? There was some limitation and they needed to bide their time until the right type of tech was invented for them? And now here we are figuring this all out together at the same time?... What a crock... A.I. would be more important than any fighter jet or missile. More significant that an JSOC capability. It'd make Jason Borne irrelevant and since people already talk about falling in love with it maybe A.I. could even replace James Bond and seduce us for information (aren't we already) - but in all seriousness if we as regular people understand this about A.I., how much more of a priority do you think the military would have made it? And when do you think they figured that out?
... Of course, they learned about it when Elon started talking about how scared he is of it... Come on, they were working on it when Elon was a baby, and if they weren't someone else was.
Why is this so likely, that A.I. is older than we think, it has to do with our brains and the advent of cybernetics. This is the story of what could be one of the most significant revelations of the future - that these "A.I." chat-bots we have now are nowhere near Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - and that real AGI and its' decedents might already exist.
If you think this is crazy, consider that modern cybernetics has been around since the 1940's, and this whole field existed much sooner in purely philosophic detonation. Indeed, the milestone of A.I. was on the drawing board way before we had digital. That's a lot of time, and when considering exponential technological growth, it's something you'd pay attention to early on if you're nation-planning in the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s and 2000s.
Two Feed Back Loops Walk Into A Bar
Already in the 1920's the Papa of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, was thinking about human-machine brain interfaces. Amongst his meditations while charting this path from MIT, Wiener envisioned machine's eventually being able to form intelligent behavior(s), similar to a person, because of complex interactions within the machine's feedback loops. This is to say, within a machine's signals and it's sensors, just like the signals in our brains and the sensors in our bodies.
The more Wiener contemplated these overlapping feedback loops, the more they began to frighten him too, just like with Elon. Wiener was a genius though of his own accord. He could consistently extrapolate this single notion, of the machine growing in it's complexity, and interlocking with our own biological processing. Absolutely, people would connect the feedback loops.
This began to deeply trouble Wiener. Maybe he missed the simplicity of being a student and the excitement of learning from Bertrand Russell at Cambridge where everything was just theoretical. We do know Wiener was not a coward who stumbled into this field. He was a devoted patriot who refused to let others carry the burdens of the times without him. Maybe he thought A.I. was his destiny after World War I. Maybe he went forward with us in mind, like the common soldiers whom he refused to let liberate Europe without him. Whatever the case - the American government surely was aware of Wiener's premonitions about computers. And since it's literally a matter of national security to understand this stuff - we cannot write A.I. off as a modern advent of "software-as-a-service" when so clearly it's legacy exists from long ago as software-as-survival.
Can we say that we believe this narrative? That the world has been catching up to Wiener at the same pace? Or do we think it more likely that the U.S. government would have seen A.I. correctly all those years ago - as an irresistible holy grail which all resources should be devoted to - and which should remain hidden from the general public (for security reasons).
How can we believe A.I. is new? How can you expect me to? Because ChatGPT? Poppycock! How many billions (trillions?) we're spent between the 1940's and today on this technology? Again, this one technology enhances all your other stuff, so you are definitely going to build it out ASAP right? ...Right?...And you'd understand your need to control it right away (as governments do). So it would be built some where super secure. By the next generation of Wieners. And by bringing to bare the resources of the United States, you could begin to jump ahead.
Welcome to the rabbit hole, a place where your predispositions about reality are always correct, and whatever that is - it is your tribe.
Enter the Tribe
The government has a secret A.I., that is a real AGI or beyond, and it's kept secret from us. Sounds crazy. But you just read, and I just wrote, why it could totally be plausible - even probable if you think about it long enough. And here is where we enter modern tribalism, because the debate about the truth doesn't matter here, what matters is what you already believe about secret government programs and the black budget etc. We could get really into the details and some would believe and some would not. Some wouldn't believe if they were shown a secret government A.I. and that too is a part of modern tribalism in America. The tribe of those who will never believe even when shown (as opposed to the tribe of those who believe without ever being shown).
The kaleidoscope of tribalism in America is a unique culmination of our history, a part of our resultant shame from the slavery and oppression of African Americans and Native Americans, the current legacy of affirmative action. The new "American Way" - where we grind our axe's of tribal injustices against one another while we're all robbed of our God given right to something better. And if there is a super-civilization-CPU somewhere we are indeed all being robbed, especially of knowing how similar we are, we'd be being played right into our tribes - like kids joining a gang to feel affection and respect, when the old timers just need someone to sell their drugs. Maybe this is the reason why gangster rap sells so good in the suburbs? I'd know. I grew up in a soybean field surrounded by doctors, lawyers, and Amish people and I know all the words to every song on The Chronic.
We have many tribes now. Of race and gender. Of religion. Of social-status or geographical-regions. Of left and right and everything in between. Up and down and front ways and back ways. How dare we even elaborate upon all the ways in which tribalism is manifesting. How dare we call it tribalism. Lets call it diversity instead. And lets have it never end otherwise you hate people.
And yet, if there is a secret government A.I., are we not all in the same tribe? Are the regular people of the world who could be having their lives manipulated in some intentional way or another without their knowledge or consent not de-facto united as a data-set at least? Is there an unspoken tribe where it's members are unaware of their unity while simultaneously being seen from an A.I. as a unity? Why am I even writing in this manner? Because it's obvious isn't it. If such an AGI exists, all of it's "power" would be brought to bare for a single purpose, to control everything. It would be a machine for controlling society. Otherwise it'd be finding exoplanets right? The powers that be, if they exist all have one thing in common, the perpetuation of their own power. And so we have another feed back loop now. A loop of our fleeting desires. Instead of striving to actively seek beauty in the world, we're reduced to the lowest common denominator of our carnality. Like a teenager asking ChatGPT for 20 steps to getting his girlfriend back, the Powers-That-Be ask the Sentient World Simulation for answers to their own questions.
What is the "Sentient World Simulation" or SWS?
During the winter of 2022 a post on 4chan described something called the "sentient world simulation." This post elaborated about how the government had in fact already developed A.I.. Real A.I.. And they had given it so much processing power, that it could simulate the entire world, and everyone in it. The anonymous poster talked about how this is what all of the data was actually for. Advertising was the gimmick. The trick to keep us from looking any further. And while advertising and marketing do consume a lot of the data that is produced, the post said that it all ended up in government computer systems, with the SWS.
It's like "The Machine" from Person of Interest mixed with ...the other Machine from West World, the one which had personal profiles of every person alive, and which sent out the text message in season 3.
Is Occupy Wall Street starting to be a problem? Just ask the SWS what to do about it.
Are people starting to ask to many questions about aliens? No problem.
Is the economy about to crash?
(insert social upheavals here)
President Trump & Clown World
Some people cannot help but to filter what they see through a lenses of disbelief. They choose to believe that the world has some kind of super computer A.I. behind it running the show. There's reason to believe it, sure, but how can we truly know from such extrapolations and deductions? We can't. MMXXX would perhaps be negligent if we did not address one final feedback loop however, the notion of President Donald Trump's so called "Deep State..."
See, if there is a SWS, it would have to be passed down fro one generation to the next right? Beyond the traditional 4 year presidential cycle. It would have to be passed down by the sections of government that didn't change and aren't as subject as other areas to oversight, regulation, or worst of all politics. In fact, controlling politics might have been one of the first things that you would do, to ensure access to the SWS for whoever invented it.
So what we have here is a notion about A.I. being much older than we're being told, and that notion is close enough to the line of a reasonable doubt that you've at least read this far along. Counter to this notion is one of the most polarizing, captivating, and uniquely-Presidential figures in American history - Mr. Donald Trump.
This man has apparently staked his entire legacy and personal freedom around his ridiculous ego - or he's not lying.
President Trump is going to finally be arrested later this week. Maybe this court trial will bring us closer to the answer of just how old A.I. actually is. Or if it is still yet to be. It is interesting to note RFK Jr's statements about the so called CIA "Operation Mocking Bird"...What do you think some blonde from Yale named Jessica is really good at social media and just macros the shit out of the governing dynamics behind all of social media because she chews Big League Chew cherry whilst also being the smartest person alive? Or does Jessica have a computer to help her. A really good one.
Anyways, who knows? And who cares? If there is a man behind the curtain gobbling up all our data at supra-Zuckerberg-levels we have a rule down here at the bottom - the one thing all the tribes agree on...don't be a dick. And don't steal the remote.