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originally posted by: boozo
a reply to: LaPourer
Humanity is just holdin on to dear life.
Just one more push and it should scramble over.
Hopefully, cause I see many people that are already dead to me.
Main reason this planet is also dead.
Advanced civilization doesn't mean good.
Sometimes all they want is clout.
Giving advices to look like a saint, "be kind to those around you" but actually tolerating violence.
MORONS.
"This man bad. That man good."
Look here, look there.
That must make them feel special too. Superiority Complex.
Hopefully this hate should be over soon. Obviously entanglement with a cult could transform your family into a cult.
Now my family is just a cult that function around and worship money.
All values lost. Would dehumanize for the clout, sikes!
It gets worse everyday.
We did foresee everything that might go wrong, except for one thing. It never occured to us that there could exist intelligent beings who have no language at all. We were not in a position to confirm that languageless creatures literally think. We had no grounds on which to tell whether a languageless creatures is manifesting intentional behavior or merely a causal disposition. Now we have the tools, and using these tools we can firmly conclude we are dealing here with extremely intelligent languageless creatures. We are dealing here with thought without symbols, life without language, a cognitive reality that is virtually impossible for us humans to fathom.
“What does it mean for an algorithm to lie by omission? To be an observer you have to be an intentional system (at least, if your observations are to be about anything). Is the algorithm an observer? Consciousness is the function or process that allows a system to distinguish itself from the rest of the world, thus if the algorithm is observing the world it is because the algorithm is conscious.”
process that allows a system to distinguish itself from the rest of the world,
Communication without signs, without a message. That is the challenge.
“Changes in structure-forming factors determine the spiral of social evolution. Is AI a structure-forming factor? What about artificial soul? Why not designing and engineering souls, if souls are the true civilization shift required? They do not need an ideology, they just need a soul. The external form does not matter; it does not matter whether they are arthropods, hominids, cyborgs, hybrids, artificial, ethereal life forms, or whether they take the form of a jellyfish or a moss. The form is not relevant. Never was. What is relevant is that they have a soul.”
We did not give you the gift of speech to lie, nor did we give you the gift of language to pray to your little gods, nor to write death sentences or declarations of war. We did not give you language to be the dominant species. We gave you language to be entangled in it, to serve as a prison for your soul. We did not give you language: we infected you with it.
originally posted by: fireslinger
Direne, this recent post has a lot to unpack, but I found this particular passage to be intriguing.
Since humans can’t perceive languageless creatures, our understanding of them is shaped by symbols through time, and we become trapped by those symbols. Could the languageless creatures ironically be using our own symbols against us, and / or trying to assimilate into our dimension through them? How many people know what the Under Armour logo really means?