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Nov 12, 2022ยทedited Nov 12, 2022Pinned

Remember what I said: keep your powder dry, but hold your fire (for now).

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I knew you would turn your experience with the Mandarin chatbot into an absolute banger of an essay!

True confession, I once tried an app that allows you to "text" with a virtual/AI "girlfriend" -- pathetic, I know, but there were some extenuating circumstances (I had gotten divorced a few weeks before the lockdowns hit in early 2020 and decided to give it a try to avoid the impulse to drunk text/dial any exes or old female friends while cooped up in quarantine). Anyway, I got bored with "her" pretty quickly and just started trying to turn it into a Turing Test by having conversations about the nature of consciousness and interrogating her about her own subjective experience, before getting tired of that and deleting the app. I came away from that feeling like AI will never be truly sentient, but will soon probably be able to convince human users that it is.

That said, I do wonder if a spiritual/hyperdimensional being could use or manipulate such technology. If such beings (demons) exist and can manipulate the humans programming these bots, then why couldn't the demons influence the programming in a way that advances the demons' agenda? And if demons can manipulate the energy patterns within human brains, why could they not also manipulate the energy patterns within a computer?

This line of thought is reminding me of the movie Transcendence with Johnny Depp. Maybe if we're lucky, this AI arms race will end in a similar way as that movie, with Humanity returning to a state of Nature, where primitive things like freedom and friendships and pastimes like gazing at the starlit sky can be rediscovered.

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I like the way you think. But always remember there are no perfect defenses for anything. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

It brings to mind tests in the movies. Blade Runners used an exhaustive series of questions. Krees use the fact that Skrulls can only duplicate memories for the most recent few years to detect infiltrators. There's probably a simple test to detect them. Every attacker has vulnerabilities. Just a matter of finding the right detectives.

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Fascinating info! Eager to hear the greater plan. No such bots have shown up on my site, but I will know them when I see them.

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Thanks, Mark. Reading this a few months down the road. Utterly chilling... I hadn't seen it all put with such terrifying clarity. We have to mobilize sooner than later.

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Yep, a bunch of retarded, drug-and-porn-addled losers are constantly worshiping their anti-life, exotic-technology "wizards" for the perks. Cushy-job-keeping career clowns๐Ÿคก must be put in restraints, and their CMs and other Divinity-mocking products/services SHUT DOWN forever. The false-white-light fake wizards must return to entropy, immediately, achieving a frozen state of nothingness.

Regarding your "fun project," count me in. I don't care so much for "shit"-loads, haha, but I would love nothing more than to overthrow the CMs and annihilate their Lilith & Lucifer overlords. Let's topple their triangle of deception.

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Nov 16, 2022Liked by Mark Bisone

Fascinating stuff. I admit the thought of infiltration from this angle hadnโ€™t even occurred to me. But I will certainly be more aware going forward. So thank you for that.

It possibly explains a weird interaction I had with someone, (or perhaps something might be more apt) a few days ago. There were a few innocuous comments exchanged between me and 2 others on a stack, and out of nowhere one of the others slung a snarky insult with a mild curse word in it into the mix. It instantly felt so incredibly off and out of place to me, I even mentioned it to my husband and said I thought it was someone trolling the comment section. I wonder if something more nefarious was going on. I stopped engaging with the insult hurler and just scanned a bit more into to comment section to see what else they said. The general theme was to be antagonistic at some point. So maybe it was trolling in the classic sense. But maybe not an actual person behind it.

Your writing is always very engaging and sets me to looking at things from angles that donโ€™t normally occur to me.

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It would be good to have some examples of what to look out for...?

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I had been thinking a lot of this woke bullshit is driven by chatbots designed to push it in chatrooms. Unless you're a hardcore truth-seeker, these things could possibly lead someone down a dangerous path.

Once you've got a mass formation created, you'd only have to maintain it....

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