Yeah I don't mean to come across as pessimistic. I'm about 50/50 on which side comes out on top at this point, just some thoughts on the narrative and speculation on the maneuverings of the would be world controllers. Also didn't mean to be a dick, you and Dr. Utter are 2 of the very few writers I actually read lately.
I was having a conversation today with a friend and he talked about evil, or the root of evil being "forgetting", in the sense that we have forgotten, with some encouragement along the way, that we are more than just meat. I think the whole narrative around AI supports that materialist trend in thought and the idea that man could "create" sentience seems like the most hilarious hubris, but then, it's hard to even have a conversation about the nature of consciousness due to language limitations and social stigmas so wtf do i know.
The very idea of consciousness is almost blatantly ignored by the scientific establishment, any culture that has made a study of it in history is more or less mocked by the "intelligentsia" and any attempt to look in that direction is derided as "pseudoscience". And yet we are magically going to create consciousness by making an algorithm that is "very complex". Laughing till i cry, then crying till I laugh. Mostly at myself.
I really appreciate the nuance and substance of your thoughts, and I hope I didn't give the impression I didn't. I am happy our conversations benefit your understanding, and you profit from my words.
It is that battlefield for hearts and minds I seek victory on, because that contest will support victory through development of civil society ignorance and barbarism can only destroy. I observe that whatever opposition or setbacks impede our work, humanity never fails to surmount whatever gets in our way, and I am confident madmen and monopoly money will not prove our undoing.
We may not understand who or what we are today, but our record assures me our nescience is temporary. In a few centuries our posterity will marvel we could tie our shoes with so little grasp of our place and structure, having knowledge I am certain sure we'll gain, and moving in that direction is all I expect from us.