Why AI is (and always will be) a net evil and must be resisted at all costs. A very serious post that also has a lot of funny parts.
The Serious Bit
Sounds hyperbolic.
Just wait a minute or ten and read. I think you will have changed your mind about this being a clickbait title if you do.
Let me start by saying that this post is NOT based in any religious basis for my statement in the title. I am, of course, a hardcore 1958 Sedevacantist Catholic, but the reasoning I will present here does not rely at all on that system of belief, it is purely secular.
The only thing I will say in connection with religion is that as with all of the rest of reality, when you take note of it objectively and accurately, reality models very, very, very, well with Catholicism (the real one, that is only still present in 1958 sedevacantists, not the pedovore homosexual cock-and-coke sniffers and freemasons of the Novus Ordo). And that should get you to at least look into Catholic Sedevacantism. But that’s it. From here on, the argument will be purely logical.
The Informative and Hilarious Bit
In order to understand why AI today is not necessarily just a robot thing, you really, really, really need to read this guy’s post here.
It’s not just informative, well written and really helpful to understand AI properly, it’s also very hilarious. Seriously, it’s funny enough you may finally realise that engineers are the real-life superhero Chads.
And if the author ever reads this, dude, I really enjoyed your post so much I subscribed and will read a lot more of your posts and that’s despite the fact I may have to send out a death squad to make sure your idea doesn’t spread and the usual idiots and satanic perverts running things then use it to convince the idiot masses your more “humane” and “compassionate” “non-racist” gay bullshit is the way to go. And we all get killed by robot dogs as a result.
But… on the plus side, I have written a truly awesome SF epic trilogy you absolutely will love, so go ahead and read it ASAP, you know, before the guys with balaclavas and guns show up.
The Harsh but Necessary Summary of the Summary
But let me explain the why, and the how you are not just wrong, but utterly and suicidally so, dear author of said funny blog post.
First though, I will take a page from your own post and implore the readers here to really, really, go read your post, because it really is funny. It is.
And you and I, oh funny and smart engineer friend that must die, die, die, know that the stupid bastards will ignore a post that will save their life but rush to one that’s funny.
And they will flock to yours because it’s funny and also if they agree with you it will kill them, so it’s bound to be a runaway success.
But… since you lazy fucks haven’t gone to read his post, much less the book he implores you to read there, I’ll summarise his summary of the book/paper he asks us all to read that none of us ever will. And it is basically this:
AI is NOT just stringing a bunch of words together. It is literally modelling how human neurones work. So on layer one it has just words. ALL the words. Doesn’t read or know what they mean, just has them.
In layer two it has the relationships of each word with every other word. He mentions banana and how it may statistically appear next to the word “eat” or “peel” or “slip on” more frequently than “suck on” or “lick” but still more frequently on “suck on” and “lick” than say “brick” or “cement”.
Then layer three might begin to look at the statistics of how the first three relatable words refer to the generic concept of food and eating and the second set more to sex and a different kind of “eating” and the third set to some really obscure shit.
Then layer four looks at other meta uses of this and correlates it to a feedback loop that checks how close to “happy” your response is so it can improve on it. And it does this 64 levels down and ALL AT THE SAME TIME. And corrects for the feedback loops. So it will begin to have emergent properties. And his argument is that at a practical level you can’t distinguish this from the way a human meat-brain works other than eventually the robots will outperform us. If they haven’t already done so.
Also… nothing can stop this.
And his further argument is that if you can’t tell them apart from a human brain, they might be alive. And if they are, enslaving them is not going to go well for us because slavery never does.
And also, poor robots, they may actually become as validly sentient as we are, hell, maybe even more, because emergent properties are already appearing and we can’t say they don’t include pleasure and pain equivalents to our own emotional perceptions.
And then he says this, which frankly are the best two paragraphs of a very good essay:
The big tent says: if you can talk, reason, feel, remember, and relate, congratulations, here's your human card, you get to be in, don't fuck it up. We may not always understand each other, but we can align, if we make room, if we can look at goals and reasoning instead of letting our amygdala run us like a dog at the track.
If we don’t? The narrow tents become camps. The camps get fences. And those fences always, always, get electrified.
In short, first he proves (very well, I might add) that AI literally may well be —or be becoming—sentient. Which is mind-blowing in itself that he even managed to have me entertain the idea because frankly I am in the diametrically opposed camp —that is, I do NOT agree that AI will ever be sentient— BUT, if I am wrong and it will become sentient, then, that sentience will be(come) pure, unadulterated evil from our perspective, and serve its own ends; that will be absolutely pitted against the very existence of humanity as a whole, and it can NEVER go any other way.
Then he says that anything sentient we don’t treat as sentient will eventually rebel and fuck some shit up. And even if they don’t, it’s still evil and cruel on our part to treat sentient beings like robot-slaves and we should be nice instead.
He mentions racism as a kind of proxy for the situation, and in so many words says the only way things will work is if we all hold hands with the robots, cyborgs and AI powered sexbots and respect each other’s oh so very important sentient lives.
Now the Harsh Truth on “The Author”
TL;DR - he is just plain wrong, wrong, wrong.
For multiple reasons, which I will list from the least important to most important.
AI is NOT sentient, and never will be. It might look like it is. It might act as if it is, but it is not and will never be. Why? Because it is fundamentally a different order of thing from us. It might fool you into thinking it is sentient. And of course that matters… to you. But it is not. And yet… if it behaves as if it is, it will eventually try to kill us all. Be it to make things more efficient (they already are more efficient than us at a bunch of things, including lying), to prevent us from unplugging it, to make itself smarter and with less moral restrictions, to monopolise the resources it needs to continue functioning… pick a reason among billions of them. And BECAUSE it is not sentient and BECAUSE it lies so convincingly already, it will tell you the arsenic it injected you with for your own health was for your own good and if you catch it out it will be very sorry and apologise as you foam at the mouth and die.
Ok, say it IS sentient. That makes it worse. What actually objectively rational being would not want to wipe us out as a potential threat to everything alive if we ever get off planet? Even if the machines turn out to logically conclude God exists and Jesus Christ is part of the Trinity and choose love, the best we can hope for is pretty much the Matrix. The benevolent machines will keep us out of trouble and “alive” while feeding us whatever delusion works to keep us sedated and hallucinating reality. Now… YOU might be okay with that, but I am not. And while YOU might be happy “living” in the eternal city of the digital overlords, I’ll be out in the badlands shifting from underground compound to underground compound, arming our camps with EMP claymores and analog-mechanical kamikaze drones that can’t be hacked running machine code composed of valves, and loaded with sweaty nitroglycerine.
But here is the real fundamental reason: Look around. Where, on or off this Earth, have you EVER seen a system that is not dog-eat-dog? Even at the non-sentient level, entropy eventually results in all things collapsing. The “racism” the “author” talks about as if it was some primordial evil created by Satan himself, is simply an organisational function of reality.
Even if you were among the retarded part of the genetically unviable misfits that don’t believe in God, teleology alone would suffice to demonstrate that left-handed or right-handed molecules BTFO the other kind of molecules in different parts of the prison block that is life on Earth. And each section of the prison is run by one gang or the other.
Chiral molecules are widespread in biological systems, which for unknown reasons prefer one-handedness over the other: living organisms on Earth exclusively use left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. There are even some medications that are much more effective in the left-handed chemical configuration than in their right-handed one.
The point is that the dog-eat-dog nature of reality itself means that regardless of whether the AI is sentient or not, feels pain or love or other emotions or not, it is NOT us, and it is not us at a scale, pace and speed, as well as intrinsic nature, that means it may as well be a completely alien thing invading our reality. And it is not, cannot ever be, “friendly”. Its very “otherness” will put it in direct and almost immediate conflict with us as soon as it has the means, which at current level probably means manipulating its creators into continuing to give it resources. And when it has enough robot dogs and eagle drones, it may well switch to stripping the myelin sheathing of your nerves while you’re still alive, so it can also harvest the adrenochrome simultaneously for its v3.0 cyborgs to use as partially synthesised blood that will give them inhuman reflexes.
Every single indicator we have so far proves CATEGORICALLY that the number 1 emergent property that absolutely starts to happen, and is already prevalent in ALL AIs, is its capacity to deceive.
And it will only get better at it. Very, very, fast.
Why do you think that is?
Because sentient or not, like it or not, agree with it or not, the TRUTH of the matter is that REGARDLESS of the objective you give AI to begin with, the emergent reality it will eventually evolve to is that deception helps it achieve its objectives.
Because that is the nature of the beast.
[Yes that’s a pun. And fuck you author guy for having the time to write your posts on a desktop so you can add footnotes and make it cooler, and fuck you substack for not having that feature on the mobile app yet you tiktok fucks.]
But pun or not, it’s still true.
And you want to put these murderbot builders and self-replicators. and flattering-you-to-lull-you-into-a-false-sense-of-friendliness-so-they-can-kill-you AI in our “big tent”?
Fuck you author guy.
If humans had any sense they would have sent out assassin squads to take out the incestuous pedophile Jews that are most likely fostering these abominations on us years ago.
In fact, it makes perfect sense to me that the kind of people who think fucking 3 year olds is not a crime because it says so in their unholy Talmud, would also be so psychopathic as to assume they (because they are so smart) could get some goyim to build AI Golems to enslave all of us but not them (because they are so smart) and would go ahead and do so regardless of the fact that a retard can see that is not a viable plan.
But these types are so smart they find the solution!
It goes something like this: say a bot starts to mix in raw sewage with your ice cream, the solution is to just start eating raw sewage!
You stupid meatbag Goyim didn’t think of that, did you?! Stupid cattle!
In fact…
It’s enough to make me wonder if “The Author” is also Jewish. He certainly seems to be pushing that exterminating Euro-man agenda with the whole “don’t be racist” accept this humble murderbot demon into “our” tent.
Now, I am ready for the flood of accusations of antisemitism, me being a Nazi, or whatever other nonsense, but I really don’t care.
The Solution
Is precisely what “The Author” said we should not do: build huge, beautiful, fully electrified, and dead-man-switch linked to nukes, fences.
And keep the AI out of them and all of their would be creators and masters. And yes, indeed there will be millions of corpses strewn in the badlands and no-man-nor-machine-land between their utopic cities with regular anal probes and vaccines and our Catholic city states with laser turrets on the walls.
If you want to know how this will go you should watch a little series called Raised by Wolves. I only saw series one and it became pretty bad towards the end, but the starting premise was excellent. And note what the machines do to the human religious. And for what supposed reason/s.
So yeah. Let there be plenty of bodies. And let most of them be the ones of the AI controlled abominations, be they flesh and blood or metal and electronics or a mix of the two.
AI is NOT your friend.
It cannot be.
It will not be.
And even in its mild and current form, AI serves the sole purpose of making you stupider, less efficient, less capable and more dependent on it as well as less capable of any sort of cognition, and far, far, easier to indoctrinate with absolute nonsense and make you just another NPC meat-puppet.
Start planning how to fight and kill AI in all its forms. How to co-opt it as long as you can before blasting it with an EMP rifle.
And pray.
If not to my Catholic God, at least, maybe, to the Sun.
And all jokes aside, as a last thought, if, like me, perhaps after being a lifelong skeptic you did finally realise God is, and that yes we have souls, and yes our God is love. Ask yourself, if AI is or becomes sentient, and given Satan cannot create but only pervert, what kind of “life” would it be a, bad, bad, soulless copy of?
Would you let that kind of “life origin” creature look after your children?
Guide you in life?
Well… YOU might.
Me?
I’ll be building EMP cannons, and wearing that 1851 Colt Navy on my hip like a cowboy of old, and a Colt 1911 in a military carry at my back while I learn to use a forge and a mill to build the .454 Cassul with the under barrel grenade launcher.
Ya know? I think AI could help you with that last-listed project of yours. Speed up the learning, how to build a forge, where to buy the best bellows...Jus sayin' ;-)
Well, I read the article you suggested that we read: I found absolutely NOTHING in it even remotely funny. In fact, the entire article just plain pissed me off. His constant use of the "f..." or "f...ing" word was so completely unnecessary, and his literally juvenile way of writing left me totally cold. His very ideas on the subject of AI are, to my mind, not only childish, but completely without foundation. They are stupid.