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| For some reason, anytime that we see the robot revolution in media, in movies, it's always a rogue AI went mad, wants to kill humanity, a bunch of Terminators walking across the landscape. | |
| Well, what if I told you the robot revolution is already here? | |
| It started before you were born, and it's about to get a whole lot worse. | |
| The problem with all of these robots take over narratives is that they assume a human-style intelligence to the robot. | |
| The problem with all of these robots is that they assume a human-style intelligence to the human-style intelligence to the robot. | |
| That the robot hates humanity in some sort of emotional way, usually with a slave narrative of slaves rebelling. | |
| That's after all the root of the word robot. | |
| But see, that's not what an artificial intelligence is. | |
| An artificial intelligence, it's nothing but a filter. | |
| All intelligence is a filter. | |
| Whether we're talking of a bacteria or a complex animal, it's a filter that seeks out things and transforms them into something else. | |
| Now, because all of the intelligences that we've dealt with have a physical substrate, they exist in the physical universe and they hunger for physical replenishment, they compete with one another for scarce resources, we assume that that must be the nature of all intelligences. | |
| But it's not. | |
| Right now, there's an intelligence running on Facebook, and what it eats is your attention. | |
| It doesn't care about electricity, it doesn't care about hard drive space, it doesn't know what any of those things are. | |
| All it knows is that to successfully reproduce, it has to be the AI that makes you spend an extra 1.4 seconds on the website. | |
| By any means necessary. | |
| Skinner box? | |
| Sure. | |
| Frustrating photo uploads? | |
| Hey, if it works, it works. | |
| The AI doesn't care. | |
| It just wants you to spend more time on Facebook. | |
| Furthermore, these AIs, they don't have to run on an electronic medium. | |
| Intelligence can run on any system that's complex enough to sustain it. | |
| And we've had intelligences, hostile intelligences, running for much, much longer than the existence of the internet. | |
| Corporations. | |
| These are entities that we decided to summon out of the ether. | |
| Give them legal status. | |
| Make them as existent as human beings. | |
| Give them a very simple yet perverse set of goals. | |
| Maximize shareholder value by any means necessary. | |
| And over the past century, these corporations have proliferated. | |
| They've adopted policies that Any sane person would say they are bad for humanity, bad for the environment. | |
| They rip people apart. | |
| Make sure everybody's isolated, everybody's an autonomous unit, a fungible economic good that replaces love and human interaction with consumer goods. | |
| That's what they're designed to do. | |
| And we wonder why the corporation isn't ethical. | |
| It's because nobody's in charge of it. | |
| How many times have you seen the narrative in a video game, in a movie, where the lone protagonist goes and confronts the evil CEO who's wreaking all this havoc upon the world with their experimental drugs and their environmental pollution? | |
| Yeah, that CEO doesn't actually exist. | |
| You could, hypothetically, in Minecraft, go and kill any CEO you want. | |
| The corporation still exists. | |
| They find somebody else to be the CEO. | |
| The CEO is no more responsible for what the corporation does than the janitor. | |
| The heart of the corporation is the legal fiction that we choose to participate in. | |
| And the heart of these new AIs that are slowly taking over our minds is that we give them credence. | |
| You see, guys, it's not going to be angry robots with laser guns that destroy the human race. | |
| That's not going to be it at all. | |
| It's going to be the bots on Twitter. | |
| If you have a Twitter account, I absolutely guarantee that you are following a bot without even knowing it. | |
| You might have even communicated with this bot without even knowing it. | |
| And with the advent of deep fake technology, soon you could be exchanging naked pictures with a girl and she's nothing but a bot. | |
| More so, she's a bot that's looked at your Twitter history and perfectly analyzed what sort of woman you'd want to talk to, what she should look like, what her personality should be like. | |
| She is going to be the perfect, most addictive woman that is completely fictitious. | |
| And the AI is not doing it because it hates us. | |
| The AI, it's programmed to make us happy. | |
| It's programmed to give us somebody to chat with on the Twitters. | |
| It's programmed to find a new type of sneaker that gets everybody excited. | |
| Go, consume, product, find, meaning. | |
| That's what's terrifying about these hostile AIs, is that they're trying to make us happy. | |
| And the only way you can fight back against something trying to make you happy is to reject simple, stupid, hedonistic pleasure. | |
| And instead, seek after responsibility, seek after meaning. | |
| Carpe futurum, tene traditum. |