I miss scarcity


This is not a complaint. Or, if it is a complaint, it's half-aimed at me. Mostly this is a reflection.

In the old days, I got to know music really well -- in great detail, sonically, musically, reading all the credits, the liner notes, etc. A friend would have an album I didn't, so I'd go to his house to listen. We'd talk about the music. We'd talk about how album sides hung together or didn't. We were thrilled by double albums.

Now, a torrent of information is everywhere. I listen alone, often to a single song, often not listening to anything over and over again.

You will tell me, "That's your choice." I'd half agree. It's like agreeing that "It's my choice not to live off the electrical grid." 

As I read and teach about AI, I am learning that our tools often prioritize speed and information glut. It seems, initially, like a cornucopia but it becomes a wash of "content." I must admit, I'm losing my talent for managing all this content, and I'm losing my love for it. And it's making me into a different person, somewhat, and I am not so sure I want to be that person. End of reflection.

Wizard Conjuring Cosmic Chaos Art Print featuring the drawing Let There be Content by Benjamin Schwartz

hilde45

Lack of predictive power related to a new technology has nothing to do with understanding. McLuhan did not predicted LLM power to catch language and control all other tehchnologies. But he understood what they are.

Kurzweil predicted way more better what A.I. will become but he understand not much about medias history and what means A.I. creation...

My goal was not to predict what A.I. will become as such, it is now where we are and easy to predict it : overpowering of human intelligence and society as it was...

My goal in my posts was pointing to a threat to our free threefold  social fabric precisely as a threefold organism instead of being one layer of technocratic control...(the Terminator scenario is Hollywood for now) .

Now i conveyed some prediction about A.I. artificial consciousness over merely artificial intelligence as it is now, but the scientist which book i recommended about that , is not a quack or a mere philosopher, he is the greatest pionner in microtubules  structure as time crystals.. He developed the concrete mathematics of A.C. and created the first artificial brain concretely.

Then... You shot the messenger without knowing about the message yet or discarded it politely indeed.....smiley You are a person i respect a lot... You even read one of the book i recommended ...I dont remember that many had read some articles i recommended on acoustics here ...

My best to you sincerely...

I read your posts recommendation in audio as wise advices...

Thanks.

@mahgister 

I think I know what I am trying to say. Your world view is too speculative and abstract to make concrete predictions as to what is and is not possible in the future with an evolving technology. Particularly in light of the empirical evidence and progress made in the AI world over the last 20 years. 

 

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@goodlistening64 there are literally 10s of 1000s of people whose job is to make logging into systems where you can cause or influence an event so difficult that you spend hours a day trying and often failing. One could of course remove those safeguards like Hegseth directing a battle via Signal. But rules are there for a reason

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An enemy, set on world destruction, would have to physically penetrate the silo (next to impossible) and override systems put in place to prevent such a scenario, then kill the AF folks who are all armed inside and have heavy impenetrable security doors that are bomb proof.

No, it would just have to cause the people who hold the keys to use them. 

Not going to say there is NO chance, but we would have to be at war first and foremost.

Well, even if we are not at war before the first missiles launch, we will soon be.