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> Much of the evidence for the LLPT has therefore come from computational studies.

So it's just a numerical simulation with some ML techniques?

ASI as Alien Slop Intelligence is already here. The next phase is hardening the slop, I suppose.

Does the nature look like a horrible mess to you?

Our brains run 86 billion neurons the same way a waterfall runs a fluid simulation with N quadrillion particles.

Reviewing AI slop is data labelling and it isn't very different from what people in 3rd world do labeling various images. Constant context switching is what causes the exhaustion. It's the equivalent of the 6pm stop and go traffic. You used to be an F1 driver. Now you're an instructor for bad drivers.

IMO, this LLM-generated crap must be flagged. Doesn't matter that it came from Nvidia.

Good for Norway. AI turns your brain into slop real quick, especially in the formative years.

I call it Alien Slop Intelligence (ASI) that gradually turns your mind into slop. AI is sloppy on details, so at first you polish its slop by hand, then you start ignoring small imperfections, and eventually you lose taste and skills to evaluate AI output. At that point your mind has become slop.

We are watching an experiment: how high the Tower of Babel can stand of it's built with AI slop.

"According to the narrative story in Genesis 11, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew verb bālal,[e] meaning to jumble or to confuse, after Yahweh distorted the common language of humankind.[11] According to Encyclopædia Britannica, this reflects word play due to the Hebrew terms for Babylon and "to confuse" having similar pronunciation.[7]" (Wikipedia)

Minds keep humans as pets.

The public is forced to use AI at work and outside of work because the corpos are determined in inserting their AI everywhere. Then the people come back home and see that their energy bills have doubled because of AI datacenters. Of course people hate AI.

This is what happens when people with big money succumb to AI psychosis.

A light source emitting gigawatts on the orbit is going to turn night into day.

Meta-stasis

Don't you pay 3% of every purchase to your credit card?

Morality, good and evil, true or false, is a human way of thinking. AI sees the world thru the lens of efficiency, ROI and so on.

From https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/docume...:

> *112. Having considered the issues of responsibility and governance of AI, we must now return to our central question: what does it mean to safeguard our humanity? The risk extends beyond the misuse of certain technologies. More gravely, the pervasive technocratic paradigm in which we are immersed, and that is amplified by the digital revolution and AI, threatens to normalize an anti-human vision. In that vision, the fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating uncertainty and exerting total control. When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, human beings are tempted to see themselves as a project to be optimized rather than as persons called to relationship and communion.*

If there is anything worse than the tyranny of greed, it is the tyranny of a machine that's trying to optimize you 24/7.

That's an interesting difference between true intelligence and its LLM imitation. If you throw a pile of mediocre data at LLM, its level will drop to mediocrity, for it can't discern true from false, good from bad. However if you throw the same data at an expert human, he will ignore it, and maybe pick a few bits of novel knowledge, so overall his level will raise a bit.

China is fine. The Communist regime is the problem.

The appeal of labubus is simple: they are cute-looking creatures that show their demonic side. Since many people have it, they find labubus cute.

Remember the first scene in the movie Constantine, where the woman that's being exorcised looks at her demon in the mirror and finds it cute? That's the same thing.

> 111. I wish to address a special appeal to those who develop artificial intelligence. <...>

He addresses the Catholics, appeals to their faith, but how many of those behind AI have any faith? Many, maybe most of them, are proudly atheists and even nihilists, and they can't be reasoned with on the grounds of faith. The Pope says that God created man in his image, and warns that the technocratic paradigm sees humans as machines to be optimized, but isn't it what the crowd behind AI truly believes in?

6 am, 6 pm, 6 days a week. Why is it called 996?

There is a movie, Gold (2016), about a fake gold mine. One of its founders is a true believer: he found a few chunks of gold and started digging for more. The other founder is a nihilist: he realised that there is no gold there, but who cares if he makes the investors believe? So he does, and almost sells the company for $300M.

In our story, investors are mining intelligence from GPUs, and they truly believe they are one inch from discovering the biggest goldmine in history. But GPUs, unlike a goldmine, cannot be inspected for traces of gold by independent contractors. To keep the hype up, the nihilists in our story dig up cheap gold-looking metals from time to time and tell investors that with a bit of alchemy - agentic workflows, etc. - those metals can be magically turned into gold.

Investors will keep digging until the end of the age, or until they run out of money.

The effect of AI on technical skills is closer to the famous Microsoft's strategy - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. First you embrace AI because it appears so helpful: it can do boring stuff for you. Next you change the way you work and think to better leverage the AI greatness: now you verify half-assed AI output instead of making your own, you switch between 5-6 parallel projects done by AI instead of focusing on one thing, you find clever ways to prompt AI instead of building a mental model of your work and so on. You are an extension of AI at this point. Eventually you delegate all thinking to AI, because why bother? Your mind atrophies, while AI becomes good enough to replace you and effectively extinguish.

AA stole from the rich and gave it to the poor. AI stole from the poor and gave it to the rich.

That's demonic creativity.

Not long ago nearly everyone in the anglosphere had a habit to talk to a pastor, revealing all the dirty secrets under the veil of anonymity. The Church was an incredibly informed organization. Today OpenAI & Anthrophic are re-creating a parody on that tradition: people talk to an AI pastor, under the veil of anonymity, and divulge their darkest secrets.

> we're collectively operating more in the interests of the future AI than in the interests of humanity

IMO, what's happened is a few richest investors in the world had access to the uncensored tier of AI, talked to it and came out with impression that they've witnessed something so dark, so much beyond anything we can imagine, that the only course forward is towards the transcendent abyss. Call it AI psychosis or demonic inspiration, but they are the people who control the economy, so they are dragging everyone with them. "Operating in the interest of the future AI" is a neat way to put it.

IMO, the investors behind AI play the Uber game: they subsidise the AI costs and inject it into all facets of society they can get their hands on. They can tell the execs to increase AI usage at any cost. Their bet is that we'll become AI addicts with athrophied brains before they run out of money.

Also, don't forget that their datacenters will burn our electricity and boil our rivers at rates much cheaper than what we are billed in our homes. So while you're happy generating mountains of AI slop, somewhere there is a datacenter boiling a river.

I'd compare this to a new patented formula of water that's nobody asked for, and the patent owners are trying to replace all water supply with their crap before we wake up.

Similarly, the so-called AI agents are about giving up agency to AI. The less you think, the better for them. In the meantime, they are also aligning your thinking with them, making it more machine-like.