Artificial Intelligence, Christopher Hitchens on Breaking Bad and the actual Sciences: An Interlude on Ridiculousness in the form of H.L. Mencken

So very eerie and creepy the manner in which some particular human coded software running on some particular hardware can produce such nearly convincing fabrications and lies strung whole cloth from a pervasive, perverse, and plagiarized digital database scraped off of the clear web by the coded software. Far beyond the corporatization of the internet and its inevitable digital disconnect (McChesney, 2013) the so-called AIs are essentially constructed pre-made for the global authoritarians and fascists to wage the most concentrated and potentially lethal form of fascist propaganda so far in the history of the human species.

A preliminary, going further into the corporate produced ‘AIs’ (Alphabet/Google/NSA/CIA) are more fundamental discussions of its actual humanly produced potentially lethal functions (not yet as terminally lethal as the potentials of nuclear holocaust and ecological extinction) and its barely tenuous connection to such mathematical and philosophical discussion as self-awareness and the ‘Turing Test’ that most of those who cite it do not actually understand.

Recent Addendum (October, 16, 2023)

The A.I. programed fabrications scraped off of the clear web, such as the NSA has been doing since before the Snowden exposures, are so far continuing on, potentially towards catastrophic consequences.  Almost to the exact date of two months ago, another A.I. Hitchens creepy frabrication scraped off of the clear web by some human coded software/program has been released.  Absolutely ridiculous and reckless, for shame.  The fascists of the world are as aware of and probably grateful for such a premade machine for producing and distributing presentations that those who are unfamiliar with the subject matter may be made to perceive these fictional presentations as reality.  Mussolini, the Nazis, Franco, they would have already annihilated human civilization had they such a machine as this.  The modern day fascists across the globe could cause the initiation of nuclear holocaust, and as such the annihilation of most life on earth, omnicide. 

References

Bla de, de bla here it is: AI Hitchens on Breaking Bad

Chomsky, Noam, The Turing Test

Chomsky, Noam, Can Machines Think? 

Chomsky, Noam, Advances in AI: ChatGPT | Human Brain

 Chomsky, Noam, Kahn, Jeremy, Marcus, Gary, Debunking the great AI lie

 McChesney, Robert W. (2013), Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is turning the Internet against Democracy. The New Press

 

'Purpose' of the Universe

 

Great discussion. I’ve been a fan of Shermer since reading Free Inquiry and Skeptik .

It's not that the universe has a purpose that was designed or willed into its big bang origins, such as humans understand the purpose of all living lifeforms, there are mathematically reaveled fundamental laws that govern the known universe and all of its known contents.  These are clearly more than ample, given the right circumstances, a planet orbiting a star in the habitable zone, such as Earth, to give rise to universal truths and laws that produce, given the right subatomic and molecular elements, the most complex biological structures in the known universe. A significant portion of these lifeforms develop emergent properties such as cognitive processes that in plenty of examples produce conscious self-awareness, which is not yet fully understood.

The human neural-architecture is the most complex structure in the known universe, and we are still discovering more of its structure and functioning.  The majority of the computations of the human neural-structure functions entirely independent of conscious awareness. Precisely how the human neural-structure produces the emergent property of conscious self-awareness and free-will, which is itself bound to the molecular properties of human physiology set within specific scenarios such as functioning within a social setting, given that humans are a social species, is not yet known and may well in principle be beyond the limits of human understanding, Noam Chomsky's conceptual distinction between problems and mysteries. The social scenarios within which humans have propagated the human genome therefore define the horizons of the functioning of the emergent properties of the human neural-architecture and the emergent neural computations that give rise to conscious self-awareness and conscious social awareness.

 

References

Kuhn, Michael Lawrence, Shermer, Michael, (2023), Does the Cosmos have a Reason? Closer to Truth