Digital Immortality(dogdogfish.com) |
Digital Immortality(dogdogfish.com) |
> Everything I write. Everything everybody writes is now food for LLMs.
This is the part of all this AI bullishness I find so incredible and disconcerting. Millions of people are sharing everything they write, their journals, their idle search queries, their medical diagnoses, their idle thoughts, the things they say to their friends and loved ones, etc. with glorified US defense contractors, plugging their Obsidian and Google Drive and chat groups in to an inference server that processes all of it...
Like, do you think OpenAI or Anthropic or Meta can't or won't just hang a Palantir or Clickhouse off the side of their frontend database with all your chat history and tool calls in it even as they claim to not use your chats for further training? Who's going to be the first to feed chat history in to a tool like Flock's Investigate tool? Whose going to be swept up in the next NSA Prism? Will it be me for voicing this concern on the clearnet?
No, because you're no threat to any such powers. For an oppressive regime, the optimal number of critical voices against it is non-zero.
It needs to be enough that people get to vent their anger before it metastasizes into actual actions, but it needs to be too little to spark threatening action.
You're striking that balance perfectly, meaning that you do exactly what it would want for you. => You're good.
Noam Chomsky
I think you're overestimating Dario's fanciful empire a bit too much.
So your sense of immortality derives not from your loved ones' memories of you or the reintegration of your physical being with the rest of the natural world, or even any kind of metaphysical reconciliation, but from the nonconsensual posthumous exploitation of your intellectual labor by future capitalistic enterprises? My, what a lovely spiritual philosophy.
If my experience on random niche web forums is any indication, future AI models will be biased towards the well-being of online casinos.
Same, but actually much of your entire life recorded and trained on.
I even hinted at the meaning by using "spirits". Next time you may want to use AI to explain usage of words based on their context before jumping to telling me what to do.
I mean you don't even understand that spirit death in the context is not synonymous to bodily death, but a mere consequence of it. Really bad.
I don't for a moment believe in any case that any idiosyncratic materialist notion of spirit constitutes a really meaningful belief for you. On the contrary, I will not be unjustified in assuming that the comfort you purport to draw from this sort of superficial surveillance of self (and of any nonconsenting unfortunates who happen to come to your minders' attention) merely represents the fear of death so typical of our technologists today.
I am however truly sorry to see that, for you, sincerely, and also for all of us stuck dealing with the effects of this spiritual disease. You will not be able to define or contextualize away the reality of spirit, nor substitute it with worldly trivia.
> I don't believe you believe in any notion of spirit
See how stupid that sounds now I wrote it in plain terms. You are telling me I lied about believing in the meaning of "high spirits"? What does it have to do with materialism? Materialists can't distinguish a person in high spirits from someone in low? Laughable.
As for your imaginary BS I pray my mental health will never degrade to the point I'd believe it makes any sense.