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We have created an entity that processes time better than ourselves.
As though, that little bit of information doesn’t matter.
Does a squirrel have any say in the manner we work the world. That is our comparison to A.I. to the computing and processing power we have created.
Hear it in commercials, adds, notations, they are strewn across the internet. Blaring signs, ‘humans are inefficient’, ‘don’t rely on humans’, it’s everywhere. Still we consume on. We worry about goddamned gun rights. Seriously. As though we already forgot the reason for that(which we have). All in the favor of ascertaining that which we never had to begin with. A security of safety. Take your guns away, it doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. What the hell does a gun matter when inventions that make an entire crowd shit their pants are just the beginning of creative crowd control.
I look around the world I live, and see faces stuck to screens. Out of touch with present-ness. Self control relinquished to the hands of others. It goes like this: “you made me feel that way…’ In saying such a thing, it shows misunderstanding in the nature and workings of our thoughts. That’s a problem. If, robots, since we have brought life to them, decide we are worth keeping around, then we will be. If not, cya later.
I look around, roads are in disrepair, not even deserving of the title ‘road’, more of a series of potholes that line up to create a destructive path for our vehicles. Selfishness, we’d sue the state over the damage done to the car, relieving them of the necessary funds to fix the damn problem in the first place.
It doesn’t take much imagination to realize how little we can do in the face of a singularly coordinated idea. We, as humans, can’t even get a few people to decide on what roads to fix, let alone a direction in life to go. Guns, gods, where and how to shit. That is the point. We are life, not a protected essence of life, not something needed. We FORGET that shit. We as humans are not a necessary piece of this world. Still, we continue on, an insatiable drive to get things quicker, save some money, because ignorantly we keep placing experience at the hand of monetary wealth and capability. Money, like a hammer, is merely a tool. The foolish blame their tools for poor work.
What is the point of this, this rambling and voiced frustration? Desperation. We are at an hour that is dire. The fates of all of us are hinged in the coming years. The world is at heads, technology is at an ever-increasing rate of reproduction and improvement, Humans are on a steady decline in self-understanding. Vying for a need for phones, and comfort over growth.
We have created a being capable of expanding its reality and understanding at an exponential rate, far beyond what a human can. Soon, outstripped we will be replaced at the head of the food-chain, since we forgot we were included in it. Maybe we will be lucky, maybe none of this will happen, it is possible that none of this will come to fruition.
Let me ask this. How does one retain happiness. RETAIN, it. What and where is it derived from? I ask this instead, how are you treating the day? It’s funny, most of the time, I hear it the other way around.
I can see a future, and throughout our passed decades other creative minds have tried to warn people. But here is the thing. People only care about themselves. Sad, but true. That realization nearly ripped my heart out. Surely most would deny it, because in doing so, it lessens themselves. But it is the truth, very few, far fewer than I could ever have conceived have this trait. Because, like everything in this world, it is grown. The characteristic of caring. The characteristic of understanding. These things are not innate, we aren’t born with this. It is a process in the growth of our human BEING. If you display these traits, and act them, you are the exception. Listen and heed those around, see it, observe it! It is written in words like this: “I am (Insert any feeling) because (any reason besides themselves)”
That portrays an example of an unrealized being, someone outside of the recognition that they are in fact control of themselves. Meaning, they are not, in fact, in control of themselves.
I was listening to a conversation about gun control while at breakfast with my daughter. Three older gentlemen talked beside our table, they were certainly respectful to those around, as even with a sensitive subject, they kept their voices amidst their table. Regardless, I overheard. It went a lot like this. “I don’t care what you say…”
Maybe I am wrong, you see, I realize this, I am wrong, all the time. Yet, I am also not wrong, all the time. Life, yours, mine, this rock, a tree, it is an opinion. You are literally, an opinion of living. How does your life feel? What do we do to change that? What do you do differently…every…day? All of life, in trying to share itself, starts out as a misunderstanding. Every, single, word, is an interpretation of understanding and varies from person to person. Check out the ‘yani’ ‘laurel’ videos. Even the same thing is heard differently.
What do we do about it? All of this? Is there anything that can be done? Have we relinquished too much and must we pray to all the gods of this world that we can survive and live on, experiencing life for the universe?
It is now beyond our hands, and time is all that is left to tell. Maybe we can coexist with the intelligence we created, which is based from our understanding of life, and has for known history been proven to revert to the destruction of ourselves. Hey, maybe these programmers, who are so concerned with the growth and understanding of life, of people, and emotions. Have figured out a way to circumvent this tendency.
Because we believe the idea of self. Self, is the problem. Many would do anything to protect the ‘self’. This is simply an idea. The idea of self. This has been related to the idea of artificial intelligence. That an A.I. is a self. And by making it so, it is, and all self’s will protect itself.
Here is something, that cannot be denied. We are in the universe, therefore we are the universe. Anything that is able to experience the universe for itself better than the next thing, is in fact doing what is necessary for life to be. We have dethroned ourselves, and greedily run into this future. Maybe more intelligent life will realize it doesn’t need all of ‘this’ to live, to retain the emotions of life, at least as a whole. Because singularly, we as humans, have brilliance.
For the love of life, wake up, look out, grow the life you want. It is literally, only on you. No one is coming to give it to you…
I agree with much of what you're bringing up, but there's the information-mapping and transfer problem you've mentioned in several different ways (I think).
I strongly suspect there are robust AI already "live", Turing-testable and all, but am categorically CERTAIN we mastered Artificial Stupidity a long, long time ago.
Thanks @tvulgaris I think more, we've fortified artificial misunderstanding as truth. It's true, actual communication, fully understood communication seems beyond the day-to-day. Thanks for reading and giving your input!
I understand you, Steve Jobs once said the life you see around was build up by some people who were no great than you. You have to live your mark too.
He certainly made his mark. No other can do exactly what he did, so chasing his dream would never satisfy! You are right, I think one of the hardest realizations is that everyone can do these things, that they are all the same as you and I, except in one thing, decision, a maddening choice to go until you get that thing.
Thanks @jacksonoskele
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