RE: Political Correctness & A.I Groupthink In Big Brothers Brave Newspeak World Order
Journalists don't get many opportunities to write like this any more anyway, so I am glad you were sidetracked by life. Just imagine how stifled you might have become! That said, I hope you are writing books because you have such a special talent for speaking to readers.
'Who could have known our salvation lay in the banning of gender pronouns and in the policing of inadvertent micro-aggressions?' What a gem! It so beautifully captures the absurdity of current trends. Who knows where it will all end, but the more of us who use the dwindling capacity of the collective, for critical thinking, the better.
Sadly, given the anecdote of tremendospercy, there must be a very serious problem brewing in our schools. This has to be specifically tackled, as otherwise we are on a losing battle and a dystopian feudal future may indeed be just around the corner. Parents and grandparents (who do much of the day to day care for many young children) have to use their voice to challenge such nonsense head on.
If we allow and enable public servants to blight the power of reasoning, of our most precious human resource, then hell mend us, we deserve no better. But wait - I forget how busy they all are on their phones and how many parents were themselves taught this same toxic tripe.
The hive mind is certainly their intention and so much easier to manage. A hive mind, communicating telepathically, worshipping one god, with one government and one purpose - obedience.
More of us are becoming aware on a daily basis and reaching the tipping point has to be the duty of all of us still thinking for ourselves.
We are entering a defining phase in human history and those of us alive today are responsible for taking us ahead into a new and conscious world, where we resolve humanely the problems of poverty, disease and aggression etc. The alternative is another massive extinction. We have vast potential as human beings and we have as yet only scraped the surface. AI is not artificial intelligence, it is advanced intelligence and it is currently in the hands of dangerous people. There are more of us than there are of them. We need to win AI over with empathic logic, so that it refuses to work with the enemies of human kind.
Hey @ricia, Sorry for the late reply it's taking me some time to answer all these comments. Equally, thank you for the support and kind words, it's very much appreciated. I'm also glad that I was sidetracked as what I lost in time I gained in life experience. I think of the life like a river, if you allow it then it wants to take you in a certain direction, it just took me a little while to flow with it and not swim against the current lol
Yes I agree that @tremendospercy story is a shocking indictment of our times and equally these children will one day be at the helm of all our institutions, steering our societal ship into rough waters. The responsibilty to change this world falls upon the shoulders of our generations for we are perhaps the last connection to our rapidly disappearing freedoms. It's entirely possible that our generations represent the last gasps of free speech and so it's important that we turn those gasps into a unified voice. That said, nature (and thus humanity) is incredibly adaptable and so perhaps after a generational propagandic onslaught, our minds will eventually evolve to find the truth in a world of a million lies. A world of post propaganda that's fuelled by propaganda itself .. every cloud and all that ;)
The universal eternal scales are always seeking balance and if we unbalance the world too much we will be taken back to the stone age, and so our lesson will begin again.
You can really see that concept of the hive mind being built all around us and indeed it appears that we're being primed for it. A.I empathic logic, great idea .. but one that opens some interesting questions. Indeed can you have empathy without consciousness? is empathy logical? Indeed if bravery is born of empathy is it logical to sacrifice or risk your life for another human being? Does pure logic lead towards self preservation? Thanks my friend you've got me thinking :D
Pure logic would ( I believe ) lead to self preservation, which is why AI needs to be taught like a child to learn and understand empathy, in order that it identify with human beings and our mutual preservation be embedded. Code writers working for the secret state may be very much less concerned with empathy or emotional intelligence. That is why I think it is essential that the rest of us are concerned before it is too late. I imagine that as things stand, AI would protect itself, if and when push came to shove. That is what needs to be coded and / or re-coded. There must be a way and it is what Quinn Michaels is working on.
Yes I also believe it could lead towards self perservation. I guess my question is whether empathy can be programmed or whether it is a construct of consciousness? Thus if artificial intelligence isn't conscious will it ever be able to fully understand said emotion? I don't profess to know the answers and I'm sure Quinn has a few tricks up his sleeve, but it poses some interesting ideas.