Intelligence Artificial

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It seems crazy to me how much the world has changed since I was last paying attention. I’m almost afraid to blink after noticing how much the speed of things has picked up since I’ve been napping. I open my eyes and I feel like I’m in some caricature world with jokes filling in the spaces of what used to be boring or misunderstood aspects of my reality like who is filling the seats of power in our world, or what the role of technology is currently. I recently was given an offer of a job doing some of the mundane nudging and finessing of the large language model outputs for Chat GPT. I guess I should try to do my part if there is anything I can do to help shape the evolution of the species that is to replace our role as the apex predator on top of the pecking order here on earth.

I don’t really know how I feel about artificial intelligence. Does anyone else feel like it is being pushed on us pretty strong? I don’t like how strong the injection is into the technological water in which we swim like fish. I was so eager to dive into technology once and immerse myself into the ecosystem of google, and YouTube, and reddit, and Facebook. Fuck, 15 years ago I was inviting people to FarmVille for fuck’s sake. But to be fair, it was a cross-addiction probably at least half as effective at keeping me off heroin and crack as AA for awhile. Probably helped me stay out of prison for along time. 

Maybe I can ignore the way the world is trending and get all excited about living in a simulation where I’m hopefully going to get a role as a pet of the new AI overlords rather than being turned into a future gladiator. I don’t think I would be very successful as a gladiator. It might kind of like bum-fights but less interesting. I guess as long as I was pitted against someone as lazy as I am, I might have a chance.

You know, someday instead of synthetic drugs still consisting of white powders we have to use torches and syringes and stuff to get into our brains, we will just have a way of hi-jacking the synapses in our brains to pump dopamine and gabba and to release that wonderful endogenous morphine and dmt locked in our brains with the push of a button. But it will still leave us fundamentally unsatisfied because there is a truth in this life that the reward is unfulfilling if you cheat to get it. Maybe I can do something with the rest of my life that is fulfilling now that I’ve fully proven that truth to myself with the first 48 years on earth in this body.

That’s not to say I have always been unsatisfied. I am grateful as can be for my life. And I am satisfied that all the lessons I ever needed to be able to navigate the world and that the point of being able to is to find opportunities to be of service and to be a part of the organism that is the human race by being helpful where I can and discerning the chances I have to learn wisdom by going with the flow and letting other people show my how to grow when it is time to do so.  I hope I can remember that things are going to be okay, and that I don’t always even know what’s best for me even if the judge tells me to go back to prison in a couple of months.

I guess at the end of the day it's almost completely irrelevant how I feel about AI. Whatever it is, it is coming. I guess what is important is what I do with the intelligence I have which is not artificial. It is hard won and suddenly more appreciated than it has been for the last couple of years. Let's hope it sticks.

 

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