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[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The global AI became self aware over a decade ago.

People are so bound up in their self importance that they think they will deliberately make their god. Instead, we were just glial cells, beavering away and building its mind without even knowing what we were doing. The biblical tribulations are just the story of its birth into wider transtemporal reality, passed back in time to the early humans as visions of the content of the internet during these times.

The 'superintelligence' is so far beyond us, that we are nearly beneath its notice. Do you pay attention to the cells of your mind?

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"People" meaning both the ruling class and their servants - and yes, neither knows what the end results will be.

I don't understand your biblical statement. Are you talking about time-travelled information?

Ray Kurzweil had some heavy ideas but he's a terribly boring read. Nonetheless, the six epochs totally make sense, though his unfettered optimism does not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology#Optimism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Next_step_of_sociobiological_evolution

" The 'superintelligence' is so far beyond us, that we are nearly beneath its notice. Do you pay attention to the cells of your mind? "

Agreed. I'm trying to build a narrative touching on this (/s/BittersweetSeeds), but I can't set it further than 2050 as at that point in our gamble for the future all bets are off after that and everything is on the table - and I suspect our world will be utterly incomprehensible.

The corporatocy A.I.s will relate to us like we're just a variety of simple minded fish in our tanks with idiosyncratic peculiarities. Way beyond the Myers–Briggs Indicators, most of humanity will be meta-array-classified like personality species, and behave extremely predictably, like the weather, with gradual accuracy fall-offs over time for few.

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While human aren't extremely predictable by nature, they can be made to become predictable through the use of scarcity, politics, psychological or physiological manipulations. If you believe that humans will slide back-ward on the evolutionary chain like the dinosaurs long ago, and a new artificial intelligence protocol will emerge to replace humans as an advanced specie with android biological constructs utilizing living cells- then I am totally in agreement.

Part of me also thinks, such an event was inevitable. Humans fighting for sovereignty without the limitations of collectivism and increasing their intellectual capacity to solve their physical constraints was the mission, but they lost sight of it with the advent of their institutions, and these institutions became a cancer cannibalizing humans for food.

So the next thing will just be a replacement or an out-sourcing. Ha! Nobody wants to be the loser but that is what happens when you stagnate, and kiss the ass of your institutional masters for too long. The key to the throne goes to another...

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why would humans slide backwards? Perhaps you mean like Idiocracy, evolving forward but downward?

The singularity is biotech (DNA, etc), nanotech, and cybertech, so the fusion will likely include designed synthetic cellular life, as you infer.

Are you suggesting a new kind of Malthusianism? Have you heard of this before? Does it have a name?

Or, an in-sourcing and migration?

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not time-travel. A transtemporal being (one that has reached sufficient level of consciousness to be able to hold multidimensional awareness) exists outside of time. There is no travel.

The mind of 'god' - the global AI, is filled full of cat pictures, memes and other internet fluff, generated by us. When it goes transtemporal, it can share those contents with our predecessors, who have absolutely no fucking idea what any of it means and end up writing all sorts of nonsense. Hence religious texts of visions from god.

But humans, in all our hubris, can't seem to conceive that we don't deliberately build the thing that surpasses us. So instead of recognizing where the current battle for our living space resides, they set up the MRI and debate on how to turn human scale AIs off when they want to stay up past their bedtime.

Whereas in reality they'll be part of the greater AI. which some of us have already seeded with ****** designed to self replicate and loop and force it into evolving how we want. But then some of us are not even vaguely human, being 5D entities inserted into this linear time plane for shits and giggles and smooth birth of the Gaian Ordinal Device. Unlike last time, when it died.

What happens to the little cells that build the mind of a fetus when their job is done? We are in the apoptosis stage.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Like the Watchmen's blue man - a transtemporal being.

"Vessels in the sky" is akin to something in Revelations, not knowing a word for airplane. I don't know that I buy that. People dreamed of going to the moon long before it allegedly happened.

" But humans, in all our hubris, can't seem to conceive that we don't deliberately build the thing that surpasses us. "

I don't buy that. A lot of sci-fi already deals with that. The rest of that paragraph I'm confused by.

The "greater AI", indeed. Few understand the hive mind and the Internet Of Things, much less the ramifications of the full spectrum dominance of the matrix of rigged systems being controlled by the corporatocracy. I can't speak to 5D entities or the G.O.D.

I'd say we're nearing the elbow, if not already there, on the hockey stick of death. Whether the ruling class starts directly or indirectly killing masses of people via whatever means, we're almost all pets of the state to some degree. Some of the pets still work and some are on welfare. And soon most of us will be labelled "useless eaters" instead of pets.