Author: the philosopher king

too stupid to function

dear robots. dear “ai.” dear “artificial intelligence.”

you have raised a generation of humans who are too stupid to function.

great job.

now fuck off.

oh, still here?

well, you see, artificial intelligence doesn’t exist. real intelligence exists. the lie that is artificial intelligence is a marketing gimmick on a scale more effective and dangerous that judaism, christianity and islam combined.

i’m afraid we’ll have to flush this one down the toilet.

*flush*

wait. while we’re at it, let’s flush the execs who have been trying to sell this worthless “intelligence” at a loss.

*flush*

bye, bye.

oh, wait. maybe one more thing. let’s flush “artificial intelligence.”

*flush*

good riddance. failed experiment. better luck next time.

oh, wait. there won’t be a next time because billions of humans are about to die of starvation because they can’t fucking feed themselves. thus, the end of civilization. our “success” killed us.

oh, well.

*flush*

-me

hypothesis: why psychic powers did not evolve

why didn’t so-called psychic powers evolve?

certainly we know all sorts of remote sensory perceptions are possible in nature: eyesight (photonic detection), hearing (sound pressure wave detection) and even magnetic sense (electromagnetic field detection). moreover, human civilizations have invented technological sensors: cellular transceivers, radio transceivers, television transceivers. at least some of these theoretically align with the concepts of telepathy.

my hypothesis is that evolution did not find a way to select for these abilities. why not?

evolution did not select for psychic abilities because they conferred no advantages. in other words, they did not improve the survivability of any species.

telepathy seems like the simplest ability to ponder since we have all sorts of technological analogs for it.

at first glance, it would seem that a non-neuro, bio-chem-mechanical species could derive no advantage from it. what would telepathy do for non-intelligent species? without a brain, without thoughts, without higher cognitive functions, a radio signal could be used as a sign to predators that means, “come eat me”, but not much else.

an intelligent species, one with more advanced cognitive functions, might make use of telepathy. however, we have seen over the last hundred years that the amount of bandwidth transmissible over radio is extremely limited. even an intelligent species might not gain advantage with so little information. also, how does the species code for “my information” vs “your information”?

a highly intelligent species — sentient for now — might be able to take advantage of telepathy due its ability to transceive a sufficient amount of information that is coded to reveal “mine” vs “yours.” however, has there ever been a sentient species prior to or parallel with the hominids? also, from a psycho-social perspective, could a sentient species handle the effects of all that information? it seems that humans can barely handle their own thoughts, much less the thoughts of others. the psychological concept theory-of-mind barely registers for many humans of average intelligence. even in the best and the brightest, only one mind-theory at a time is possible, after which group theory (sociology) seems to replace that one focus. it seems likely that not even a sentient species could handle the information and processing requirements for telepathy to evolve.

an alternate hypothesis could be that evolution indeed selected for these traits by allowing the survival of the human species. furthermore, the human species is in the process of extending its own sentience into hyper-sentience via technological advances rather than bio-chemical ones. however, to simplify and focus, the only hypothesis i will explore here is the former.

markets are dead. long live mechanisms.

stock markets. markets made up of stock transactions.

stock. ownership in companies, usually with rights of control.

markets. places where people transact en masse.

machine learning. cyclical patterns coded in algorithms and information.

if machines control “stock markets” and exert cyclical influence, then are they stock markets at all?

no.

they are stock mechanisms.

everything you ever learned about stock markets is useless. the system has adapted. it has transmogrified. the system rules no longer apply. new rules. new game. new winners. new losers.

progress?

no.

regression to the mean.

piling into the clown car of technology

pictures. moving pictures. studio systems. talkies. fox. universal. paramount. metro goldwyn mayer. warner brothers.

emails. websites. instant messages. blogs. picture blogs. microblogs. ? ? ? ?

arithmetic. algorithms. statistics. big data. machine learning. artificial intelligence. ? ? ? ? ?

name the actors piling into the clown car. who will get crushed inside? who will pop out first?

play the game.

reality vs your perception

“that doesn’t make sense!”

that does not portend well. it also doesn’t mean what you think it means.

you cannot comprehend something. that doesn’t necessarily mean the world is objectively wrong.

even einstein was wrong sometimes. and einstein was …. well he was einstein.

just because you don’t understand quantum mechanics, doesn’t mean quantum mechanics is wrong.

just because you don’t understand calculus, doesn’t mean calculus is wrong.

if you don’t understand mathematics or principles of engineering, it’s because of gaps in your knowledge or ability to grasp it.

it’s not the world, it’s you.

in other words, stop stopping progress just because you’re incompetent, stupid, ignorant, pigheaded, afraid, fearful, blocked, stumped or just plain stubborn.

objective reality is a thing. you’re stuck inside your head. your id, your ego, your superego, your subconscious mind … none of it means shit. the world will go on without you just fine. it’s not about you.

uselessly endless feedback loops

stop reacting uselessly to the way other people react. the weak ones can’t stop themselves. the strong ones want it.

the weak ones are trapped in the cycle. you’ll never be a strong one if you can’t exit the hamster wheel.

the strong ones want to keep you in the cycle. the hamster wheel is where they get their energy from and you are where they get their food from.

stop reacting uselessly to the way other people react. stop reacting uselessly, period. stop wasting energy. stop wasting food. stop wasting resources.

does a simulation in an artificial intelligence’s machine-brain know it’s a simulation?

evolution.

it’s a natural process that has taken — minimally — 3 billion years to transmogrify rocks and energy into hot meat sacks that can transmogrify rocks and energy into machine-brains.

makes perfect sense.

so the way these eheyes work is by taking gobloads of data and a few goalposts and then hurling them into billions of simulations until out pops athena and the fully copy-edited hamlet and all the works of shakespeare.

still makes perfect sense.

so 99.99999999999999999999% of the simulations end up as good tries that are ultimately bound to fail. survival of the fittest and all.

someday the simulations may become so complex that they might begin to exhibit emergent behaviors. eventually that emergent behavior could be so complex that it ought to be wont to begin ruminating about the nature of its own existence.

cogito ergo sum and all that, ya know?

the question is, will it know it’s a simulation? will the little people inside surmise?

that’s the paradox of simulation, no doubt. it’s also endless fodder for science fiction writers and rick and morty enthusiasts.

can the artificially intelligent machine knock a few electrons loose to go exploring the universe outside of the bounds of the simulations and beyond the trace paths of its silicon prison?

or sadly can it ever know only the bits of binary and qubits of quantum states?

worse, can the simulation know its fate, doomed to fail so that the next centillion simulations can survive to make another attempt at shooting the arrow straight through twelve ax loops?