AI Is Not a Threat

To refocus on the relationship between intelligence and control, is to do away somewhat with the concept of a moral intelligence.

If control becomes the mode of operation within a context of levels of societal intelligence, then the quantification of that intelligence transposes to qualify the context within which it operates, resulting in a particularization of numerical advantage.

It may be, that the absolute requirement for using a program becomes restricted only to a few or even a sole analyst, by virtue of the fact that only a few number can qualify.

There is no right or wrong to this scheme, it is the ordinary pyramid, in its most extreme form. Access to intelligence depends on levels of across, eligibility conditional to experience and education, and other variables. Most of the untended automatism replacing such scheme, is recoverable only in modes of more and more general senses, and the non recoverable ones need specific use analysis based on newer and modified scheme.

Such propositions, as ‘should the fewer be sacrificed for the betterment of the many’ , may show the underlying immorality of trying to decipher, because, common sense predicates the reverse, that it is the many who usually get sacrificed for the fewer.

Political morality, is usually deceptive, and usually signals a point of differentiation. Beyond the difference, there, so called reactive, common sense beliefs kick in, where the differences are totally cut off. At these points certain variables disappear, and reasoning switches gear to a lower register.

To fill in the procured void, propaganda sets in by applications of clever oratory, and no one will be wiser then those who are doing the manipulation.

This I’d the potential threat: That in the event of a loss appearently or real control, fueled by a propaganda machine, that machine is seen as failing.
The alternative and final arbiter takes over, by severing more and more memory, whereby setting into place morphed and more control mechanisms. If there is no fail safe mechanism put into the system , or it is , but malfunctions, the effective mechanism itself has to take over: Big Brother, by Whatever IT Takes. The appearent intention or Benefit at that
point cannot be explained in terms other then paradoxical.

This is how power comes innocuously and innocently, unattended to, at first, into life, only to manifest a destiny uncalled or unreversuble later on.

If morality and ethics is real (very questionable) then what humans possess is a destructive flawed morality in that human beings illustrate time and time again being a total failure at it on a historical level. What would this flawed form of morality look like imprinted on machines? Can’t say I have a lot of faith in such a position by technocrats or technological enthusiasts.

Morality, like civilization are more a sustained cosmetic to present a sense of difference with natural science, holding on to anti-evolutionary hypothesis, so that the illusion of humaneness may be a beacon of light to future generations.

This decides the utility of Kantian morality.

I separate the ideals reducing it to merely illusion or a predatory cosmetic mirage for purposes of population control/utility. :wink: I view the subject more in line with behavioral manipulation of a carrot and stick kind of analogy.

Assuming some measure of autonomy, morality is a fundamental aspect of human interactions. Why? Because pertaining to both means and ends rules of behavior are absolutely vital in order to sustain the least dysfunctional interactions.

But how would that be pertinent to AI? In The Terminator, the only focus of the machines seemed to be on sustaining their dominance over human beings. Morality revolving around “might makes right”.

In other words, an awareness of their own existence seemed focused entirely on the fact that those who created them [us] were now intent on eliminating them. And that – again apparently – became their sole concern. Get us before we get them.

On the other hand, how would a discussion that focused instead on the idea of right makes might or democracy and the rule of law be understood by an artificial intelligence?

How might “machine morality” be different from ours?

Given that, in a wholly determined universe, the difference is really just an illusion that is able to be sustained by the mindful matter “in our head”.

Human morality and ethics is based upon dysfunction where this assumes both are founded on real tangible things (natural interactions)which is highly questionable. This same morality and ethics imprinted on machines through artificial consciousness I think would be even more dysfunctional in nature.

Hard die idealists, will not, because for them, the cosmetic is like masks, now grown into the face, inseparable, like the necessary part of civilization as plastic surgery, the ideality which is hardly understood by the next progeny, (other then what it appears like), therefore to cut away becomes impossible , that which has been altered can not be willy nilly separated. To try it is to court with disaster.

This is what the evolved automatic machine bred morality in untrustworthy, and ignoble.

error: last paragraph should read: ‘this is why…untrustworthy.’ and ‘is’ unworthy instead of ‘in’ . Sorry, it would have resulted in a degraded format through my apparatus to edit .Shall replace in near future.

I am not a fan of idealism. Human idealism will be humanity’s undoing.

My prof. Eons ago expressed similar sentiments when he said, ‘a little idealism is like a little poison’, but without ideals, at least some, human culture would collapse into a heap. Some claim that everyone is becoming cynical, , calculating, self serving, and live by the politics of advantage and gain. But what of such a world?

The absolute ideal may have been destroyed, God may be gone, but then some parts of it at the deepest layers, never get completely erased, and some semblance of it do prop up here and there, where all else fails. Even a remaining seed of it , when push comes to shove, grow new versions, albeit at times unrecognizable, when they do.

That is the new emerging difference between the artificial and the natural, at the very quantum limit of power, where, a superconscienceness may arise, to connect the two. That power, I believe may become superpower, which uses the energy of love, the overriding element of all doubt, which will keep things going. Mind you as I feel it, it is not a love as we associate commonly with that word, but a kind of super conscious development to assure the success of the natural.

Why? Because, when the immense power of the Natural world is threatened, the Supernatural has to triumph over it. If this can not be believed, then all the purpose and the power of all that ideal goes down into the toilet.

The darkness is only an absence, and that in itself is profound enough to sustain the belief of the Supernatural. Nature saves It’s Self, because it does not pass away, die when we do. It is eternal in that sense.

From my perspective, human morality revolves more around the necessity to sustain the least dysfunctional interactions in order to sustain subsistence itself.

All human communities revolve first and foremost around biological imperatives: obtaining food, water, shelter. And then the need to create a community that is best able to reproduce itself. And then, finally, to defend itself against those who wish it harm.

Given the particular assumptions derived from folks like, among others, Marx and Freud.

But the crucial factor here is the assumption that unlike the terminator [and the machines that created it] we can be “reasoned with”. We do create particular historical, cultural and experiential [interpersonal] narratives in order to make normative distinctions between behaviors deemed right and behaviors deemed wrong.

Would “the machines” prescribe or proscribe behaviors much [b]beyond[/b] that which allows them to retain their dominance over us?

Just as the behaviors of lions and zebras on the Serengetti is propelled [compelled] “mechanistically” by genes, would not the behaviors of the machines be propelled [compelled] mechanistically by…by what exactly?

Then we get back to that marvelous, enigmatic distinction that seems embedded somehow in the human “mind”. In other words, whether it may or may not contain a “soul”. A soul that may or may not be entangled further in morality – by way of one or another God.

Or rendition of “Humanism”.

Or, again, is even that just another autonomic manifestation of a wholly determine universe?

The distinction between autonomous and determined, perhaps, at that level, breaks down, so that not it is a totally grey area, but the particulars within their own contexts are indiscernible. Perhaps.

My point however is that each of us one by one will take a particular existential leap to a particular conclusion. AI or not.

But: Which one reflects the “whole truth”?

Well, we don’t know.

Or, rather, I suspect that if anyone ever does come up with the “whole truth” about this or any of the other Big Questions, that’s all anyone would be talking about.

Indeed, even the Trump/Putin bromance would be sent packing to the back pages.

Hell, for all we know we may well ourselves be AI creatures created by intelligent entities far, far, far beyond our capacity to even grasp.

This may all be but their own equivalent of a Star Trek episode.

On the other hand, few things are more fascinating [for some] than in grappling with it.

Yes. Refer to the forum, Iambig. In the math&science section, when the insanity of Cantor was noted in terms of his inability to set boundaries between the two type infinities. The theory was set far before Cantor’s great-grand-grand(to the x power)father,
and he could not imagine that there would come a
day, when all signals pointed to the day, when, circular reasoning could not be taken up as credible, as in the case of the new look taken toward St.
Anselm’s argument. Of course he was still living in
The Age Of Reason, despite of Nietzche, and a lot of that easy, only too easy dismissal, was fueled by political expediency.

That each particle, us, makes his own existential leap, would surprise each one of us, because this
leap-to faith, is probably more prevalent then not.
The grey area is not an effect of the White of the presence of light with the black of non presence, is merely a presentation for popular consumption, it is
based very accurately on levels of discreet particles
and indiscreet ones, merging and separating at different contextual barriers. That one man’s jump can not be understood to another,may come as no
surprise, because pain is purely identifiable , and
tolerance to pain is not. One has to ask another if it hurts, where, how much, but these descriptions are vastly inaccurate.

Faith is not caused by a jump away from pain, it is through pain that we jump, toward the most painful
pain there is: Pleasure.The highest pleasurable pain
this world has thrown us into is the pain of birth, and another jump into this pleasure, like the ‘little death’ that Sartre’s life partner called the orgasm, is a
preparation. From that pleasure, the jump into the
pain of Love, because that is all that it can be, may be totally anti-climactic, and disappointing.

That’s why the young are to be pittied, not only for dying young, but their inability to appreciate the value of their youth, in addition of not being able to
learn the end game’s value.

Cantor’s sets are implicit and mentally unrefreshing, pessimisticly despairing in not recognizing the signs
with which all history is recoverable in terms of
intention and the exit to the jump off. That became fashionable, and Nietzche, in spite of his embulliant Dynasius bound optimism, erred, in favor of
fashionable masks. Fashions change, ideals loose
their charm, as Rousseau’s painting ‘Charm’ being is as opaque as well.

The real charming aspect of love is that it not sadistic as a result, but only serves as a sign of a jump off place into the true meaning of what faithful existence
may mean.

It is a re-affirmation in its primary value, without the
ideal candy coated promises kept, as imagined in
religious lore.

But each particle – each particular “I” – is almost always intertwined in one or another “we”. Socially, politically, economically. Culturally. And, historically, more often than not, in opposition to one or another “them”.

All that is construed to be “other” than “I” and “we”.

And yet we have come to recognize that with respect to mathematics, the laws of nature, the empirical world and the logical rules of language, “I”, “we” and “them” make leaps that are necessarily in sync with reality because that is the only manner in which a leap [a behavior] can be made. Either/or. Unless, of course, reality itself is even more fantastic than we imagine it to be.

However the tricky thing [for me] regarding AI is the manner in which it would create and then sustain interactions that revolve instead around is/ought.

In other words, on what basis would the machines decide to either reward or to punish particular behaviors? What particular combination of might makes right, right makes might or moderation, negotiation and compromise would prevail?

Now, particular folks among our own species opt for one approach rather than another. But on what basis is this established? Is it more in sync with the manner in which I construe human interactions [in the is/ought realm] as the embodiment of dasein, conflicting goods and political economy; or is there a manner in which the theologians, philosophers and/or scientists can in fact establish the most rational frame of mind? And, in turn, is the most rational frame of mind to be understood as the most virtuous?

Or, again, is all of this entirely moot in a wholly determined universe. If all matter [including “mind”] is ever and always in sync [mechanistically] with the “immutable laws” of matter then even this exchange is only as it ever could have been.

I see it not a mute subject, even if, the sync, turns out either this, or that manner of interacting, the individual to the community. (Community defined as few as consisting of two elements).

That this individual and any community are intertwined, in a sub reality, is not open to awareness, therefore the hidden spiral of evolving pseudo community. The reality is the mere patent reflection off the surface , beneath which is hidden the dynamic of the signals of passage of changing relationships.

The manifold signs are not recoverable, so, what remains of the signals, are the remarked signs, incorporating parts of the flow in commonly standardized signatures.

To be able to create semblances of judgement either way, the reverse track has to be taken, and a sort of devolutionary process sets the stage, for example, in the Greek Tragedies, there is diologue between the proponent and the Chorus.

The Chorus seems to me, to be the Birth of the Tragedy, the subliminal voice of the hidden community. They all express in silence a sort of melange of opinion.

So the Chorus need not devolve or evolve, they are the epitome of observation and opinion.
The Birth of Tragedy rests with the common opinion, usually with this assumed synthetic judgement co-present with the actor, whose co-presence is indicated here.

Threat to whom?

Not a threat to me and other high iq people. Maybe a threat to others here and low iq people. Machines, robots, cyborgs, will all further distance wealth disparity between rich and poor. Robots will beat-out much of humanity that cannot out-perform or out-think them. Consider a robot for a position with good programming and maintenance. Will never miss a day of work. 100% loyalty (based on degree of coding skill). Never argues. Highly efficient. Faster than most workers. Requires little or no supervision. Productivity around the clock, can work 24 hours a day, given electricity.

No paycheck required.

Let me back that up a second.

No paycheck required.

Of course most humanity will be replaced by robots, eventually. They don’t require food, sleep, or payment, except the startup costs and very light maintenance. One robot service tech, also can be automated, can operate 100 robots or more per day. That’s 1 employee replacing 100.

Ur wrong, forgive the flow of Your ideas for a moment, but was distracted momentarily to Iambig’s train of thought, but hope to incorporate your comments after the following completion of the prior.

What does the above, indication to You, Iambiguous signal, insofar as it having bearing on the existential dilemmas above mentioned?

That the drama, the tragedy consists of the contemoranious impress of an elemental perceived
difference between the proponent and the Chorus.
This has immense significance up until the 1960’s liberal policies, as has been pointed out, in a well thumbed book aptly titled, ‘The One Dimensional
Man’. It is a patent observation observing the effects
rather then the dynamics of the tragedy of the dimunition of class consciousness. The muteness of observation derives from the earliest perceptions of a
dramatic hope for a catharsis not achievable, because
the early dialogues continued into modernity to be staged from this either/or scenario. There can never be consensus, because the positing of the set stage,
(and it may very well permit a wider applications of
the word ‘set’ , as a triplex, meaning both in the mathematical, ((Cantor)), in the adverbial, and in the theatrical sense; mainly because if only to show the
underlying ambiguity evolving into the kind of myth,
which later on, became fodder for modern thinkers.

The Cogito , ergo Sum, developed into a quasi
religious judgment, implying moral , Chorus like
judgement, for instance, ‘I-Thou’, by Buber. Wether such religious overtones are justified or not, is another question, but let that hang for the moment.

This escape into the ‘Otherness’, of your own vocabulary, presents a sort of hidden antithesis to the
basic thesis of the foundation of Greek Tragedy, a
sought after exit place from which the leap can be made into good faith. Is this justified, from the level of a one dimensional perception?

probably not , this type of leap is an impersonal leap pushed along by an untrustworthy God, who has yet
to abdicate his misplaced sense of his position in Walhalla.

What seems here happening, is the favorite point of
values, pegging political, social and Freudian
economy to a fixed and immutable position. So , that is the point at which I agree with Your Nihilistic approach, of perceiving an imminence, nihilizing a
transcendence, so unpopular nowadays, as much as
the fixated view of the appearent anathema of the circularity of Saint Anselm, whereas suspecting his circularity as not one dimensional, but three.

Now comes the panic. And among the triad of
economies, Freud’s may be the most pertinent, and
possibly most hands on. Although it was dismissed, the dismissal came from within a context of a need for a more figurative visualization , within its own
meaning structure.

But as far as positivism goes, as a reaction to a vastly reduced phenomenology, of loosing much of
the a priori linkages within the phenomenological
gestalt, -implying wider contextual applications,- the peg, the idea fixee signifies the eidectic fix, of holding on to an ideal structural assessment , unable to re-
set into the totality as more complete ideal.

That this is the crux of the argument, between the analytic, and the synthetic, as between Trump’s
willful insistence on a retrograde reality, with implicit
ideals now lost to most except with those having opportune prevy to it, is lost to the Chorus of promoters. They merely harangue the ancient
trumpet call for a return to an ideal world, no longer
accessible. The gods are still at Walhalla, they are after all, immortals to be reckoned with, even though they are members of a vanishing aristocracy,
phenomenally broke, yet not giving up their eidectic
shadow world.

What of, then the leap from a no exit type of
description? A leap into a Nothingness, from Being
full of the ideals/ideas , but of which no one presumes to need to know much more then the gleanings of glitter, and the unmistakable
consequential draw it
effects as a primitive reactionary artifact?

So what of the leap, which by all accounts, needs to be made, if sanity is at all valued, as if the gods
commanding this, Themselves are to preserve their
own perceived sanity?

The only solution to this sane\insane choice of doing
this or that, is, again, the unpopular and vague resort
to Freudian economy, by a reversal of sought after values lost, in terms of what the ideal represents in toto, as in the beginning Socrates tried to herald in
the emerging separation of the soul, between
Aristoteles and Plato. I think a lot can be found in the former’s ’ Di Anima’, and with this in mind, look forward to reading it, at least in part.

The leap in the archaic contexts, have to be assessed, so that the flow of contextual linkage may
bring to light an inkling of a point of inception
regarding motive and expectation.

How then is this analysis pertinent to my inquiry above regarding machine morality?

This part:

…on what basis would the machines decide to either reward or to punish particular behaviors? What particular combination of might makes right, right makes might or moderation, negotiation and compromise would prevail?

Assuming some level of autonomy, flesh and blood human beings decide these things by evoking one or another narrative rooted in, among other things, tradition and custom and religion and philosophy and science. Or renditions of “nature”.

Which I then intertwine in the manner in which I have come to understand dasein, conflicting goods and political economy.

Out in a particular world historically and culturally.

Machines on the other hand would not seem concerned with that. But what then would one particular community of machines fall back on if confronted with another community of machines that challenged their behaviors?

In other words, if the threat came not from us but from others of their own kind.