I’ve already seen multiple people in my social media circles crash out into LLM psychosis and it’s getting kind of annoying seeing people spam output from an advanced statistical resource hog autofill when I trying to discuss stuff with humans online like bro your chatbot is not going to build a time machine it can’t even build functional creatures 2 brain architectures…
the problem is discussing with humas. Before 2020 i was active in the fancy ratbreeder community. Someone asked me for a paper, explaining that hamsterwheels are bad for rats (somehow everyone in germany thinks they are the worst and she was discussing with someone out of a native english speakin country) – send 3-4 papers, explaining that the wheelsare good, without sayin anything. Just the links.
The argument ended when the papers where placed. Both didnot read a single paper, they just accepted that whoever shopws scientific papers, is right.
And those papers where clear, wheelsare good – papers ended the discussion and both persons ended with wheels are bad.
The main problem is that humans hate to think on their own. They just got a new tool that thinks for them…
Indeed, thinking is work and society has made us lazy.
Rather than do critical analysis, most of us will just believe in what we are told if the source is confident enough.
@genesis I thought you were a native German speaker! Something about your spelling tipped me off, that and the black forest references you occasionally make.
@foggygoofball I am, my old creatures name was MK-grendel and i was active in the german community.
Also critical thinking was always unpopular for the majority of the humans, saddly… the internet just makes it more obvious
@genesis It’s not about critical thinking avoidance. It’s about a modern, more effective Narcissus trap. An echo chamber of yourself and your mirror, which is insanely unhealthy. Even being able to interact with someone who has a different opinion, and accept that they might be more correct than you, is something that would be lost. I’m worried how much they’ll try to recursively degrade and control people with this. There’s always a reason if the elites start pushing something. It’s not just “more of the same as always,” sometimes happening is real. It’s worth trying to stop. How much more frustrating would that interaction be if they fed it into a pretrained chatGPT log that sycophantically insists wheels are dangerous and depressing to rats or whatever and never budges, and just posted that at you?
And to be fair, scientific papers are rough reads. That wouldn’t be my baseline expectation for people, personally.
@kurgan we are at a big selection event right now, many traits will be reshuffeled reduced or removed a few generations down the line. When those who prefer talkin with female mecha hitler instead of real humans (rerequesit for babys) are removed out of the genepool, i see this as a win.
Let the narcissus trap snap, it’s better for our species in the long run…
@genesis Well, it’s best to save who you can. This seems like a great filter that didn’t actually have to happen. As has been discussed, it’s a total red herring to begin with. You don’t want the numbers to swing too far in the favor of the people orchastrating all that, in the end.
@kurgan for our civilisation, i agree – but for our species, sharp selections with hughe cut offs improve way more.
And i am always compleatly on the biological side
You have been programmed since birth. All of your institutional learning facilities (schools, church, prisons etc.) are complicit. Your family, your friends, the news, the internet, etc all work in tandem to reinforce certain thought patterns and reject those that are deemed problematic. Start with Adam Curtis’ “The Century of the Self” documentary. (i’m sure its on youtube or somewhere FREE…but it’s long. Please do the curtesy of watching the entire 4-part documentary.) Actually many of Adam Curtis documentaries will help remove the blinders and allow actual thought processes to occur, rather than knee-jerk thoughtquotes that have been pounded into you since day one. PM me if you would like further reading, insane rantings, or if you want to “see the fnords”.
@finnius my mild autism and my 9th house chiron midheaven conjunct in scorpio make me more resistant to programming by authority figures however
