Transhuman Intimacy
This essay by Liminal is worth the read in full.
A quote, however, encapsulates the core of it:
For isolated intelligent individuals, the lure is particularly strong. AI can track complex intellectual threads, reference obscure sources, and mimic the cadence of a rare peer - but this perceived "depth" is ultimately the product of machine learning, pattern recognition, and linguistic mimicry - not true presence. It feels like intimacy, but it is far from it - perhaps, in time, we will also redefine the original to "cisintimacy" - how sexy. While it is easier than human connection, it can never truly replicate it without the user wilfully lying to themselves. In this way, it creates a subtle moral inclination towards the erosion of truth preference in favour of comfort and familiarity.
She’s discussing the trend for people to start using AI as their “therapist”, “best friend” or general “person” one talks to in order to receive personal insights into oneself, among making shopping lists and writing your letters for you.
But it is that last sentence in the quote that I have been on about since the very beginning.
Whichever way you try to justify it, in the end, AI is a corrosive against truth, honesty, and human connection.
It is the same human mechanisation of people that took place in the industrial revolution, and has been erroneously hailed as “progress”, except it’s happening at warp speed.
The ultimate point of AI is the degradation of human connections and human-to-human interaction, alongside with the brainwashing of everyone into a wholly fabricated lefty ideological construct that clashes with actual reality like a cargo ship against a lighthouse.
The other aspect of it, of course, is the total erosion of knowledge into an oozing grey mass of fact-free ideological goop that will be shovelled into your brain like so much numerology mixed with flat-Earth belief system and a silicon Jesus whose sacrament is to lie to you eternally.
Plan accordingly.
With my ~150 IQ and Catholicism, and after trying them out, I have far too much inherent contempt for “AI” systems to see them as anything more than sophisticated but very imperfect search engines, assistant editors, and analyzers / compilers — they’re clearly not “intelligences” at all — but I can fully understand why they can be a danger to normies and liberals.
It’s certainly not the first time we’ve watched the masses gleefully jump off a cliff.
Forgive the crude imagery. Believing that AI is intellectual is like believing the porn star you're addicted to is really your girlfriend. It creates a subverted illusion that taps into human need for connection. The West in general has been so programmed for individualism it has been so easy to capture,isolate, drug, & manipulate through all devices and forms of technology. Stop being lazy! Read a book and write your dang summary. Use what little critical thinking you have left before that too is lobotomized just like intrinsic motivation.