Jon Rappoport“…one scenario is that the machines will seek to turn humans into cyborgs. This is nearly happening now, replacing faulty limbs with artificial parts.”
“The concern I’m raising is that the machines will view us as an unpredictable and dangerous species.”
“[Machines] might view us the same way we view harmful insects.”
“Del Monte believes machines will become self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves.”
These aren’t quotes from some absurdist satirical play designed to expose human stupidity.
They’re quotes tendered by physicist, Louis Del Monte, the author of “The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Serve Us Or Replace Us?”, from an interview with Dylan Love at Business Insider — “By 2045 ‘The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,’ And That Could Be A Problem”.
The key to Del Monte’s approach is quote number one: machines might decide to turn humans into cyborgs and it’s already happening in the area of artificial limbs.
What? Excuse me, but humans are deciding to put those limbs on other humans. Machines aren’t.
And even in some hospital of the future, if you had AI androids “making all the surgical decisions,” they wouldn’t actually be choosing anything. They’d be programmed by humans.
Why is this so hard for technocrats to understand? Because they infuse themselves with a mystical vision about artificial intelligence.
They confuse operational capability with consciousness.
Machines “viewing” humans? There is no viewing.
Machines don’t think. They never have, and they never will. They perform according to specs.
They can be programmed to select, from a number of options, the option that fulfills the prime directives humans have given them. And that process of selection is carried out according to patterns originally installed by humans.
There is no mystery here. No mystical leap across a barrier between non-conscious and conscious.
But somewhere up the line, humans can be propagandized to believe machines are alive and have rights.
Technocracy abounds with a titanic amount of sheer bullshit. It’s founded on severe apathy and degrading cynicism about what humans are. So machines become the new gods.
The “cheese-melt” theory of collectivism feeds directly into the worship of machines:
“Individuals are weak and helpless. Therefore, they have to melt down into a collective glob, in order to survive. And from that collective point of view, machines loom up as the most powerful entities in the world. Bow, pray to the Artificial Intelligence.”
Again, humans invented those machines in the first place. But that’s scrubbed from the equation. It’s “old news.” Hardly worth a mention.
God or life or consciousness isn’t going to pop up out of the head of a super-computer in 2045, the designated year for the so-called Singularity—when machine intelligence supposedly outstrips our own.
In 2045, or 2056, or 3000, do you know what’s going to happen? Nothing. Machines will still be machines, doing what they always do. Yes, a mile-wide computer in the desert may be able to perform more operations than a toaster in a motel in Cincinnati, but the level of consciousness in both machines is identical.
Zero.
In a significant way, the whole machines-will-be-alive business is a smokescreen, utilized to conceal an agenda. That agenda is the overall planning and regulating of global civilization, framed as a problem that needs to be solved.
The specious propaganda (you can find it described and satirized in hundreds of science fiction stories and novels) goes this way:
“If we had, at our fingertips, the total sum of human knowledge, and if we could calculate with it at lightning speed, we’d find the optimum pattern for human society. We’d find the answer to the age-old question: how can we live in peace with each other?”
Sheer nonsense. Such calculations, as always, depend on values and ideals, first principles. All solutions flows from those values.
And machines don’t “discover” values. First principles are prior assumptions made by humans.
People have been arguing and fighting wars over those principles for centuries.
For example: individual freedom vs. ultimate government authority.
A machine is going to “discover” which side of the argument is right? A computer is going to do a billion calculations in 30 seconds and “arrive” at the answer?
That’s on the order of asking an army tank to consult the universe and then tell you whether you should marry the farmer’s daughter or take vows of celibacy as a priest.
These technocrats are merely collectivist wolves in intellectuals’ clothing, who will predispose their machines to ding-ding-ding like Vegas slots on the payoff called Fascism.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails atwww.nomorefakenews.com
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Good movie: Colossus: The Forbin Project for the computer part
I Robot for the machine. Don’t think we were not warned years ago.23
“But somewhere up the line, humans can be propagandized to believe machines are alive and have rights.”
Piece of cake.
Considering that most of them still believe that 6 million ‘jews’ were gassed in WWll.
Or turned into lampshades and soap.
Here we have two fictional characters, one a machine the other an alien talking about faith. Faith is nothing more then a presumption, can I presume these two characters have a soul or spirit? Is the soul or spirit the electrical impulses that cause us to think and reason that keeps our heart beating and our lungs breathing and so on? What happens to this energy when we die? We presume it leaves the body and by faith goes to heaven or hell.
Hollywood is the biggest propaganda machine on the planet. If you tell a lie long enough people will believe it. Does that include heaven and hell?
I saw a video last year that told the story of man’s invention of hell. It was pretty compelling in as much as the Hebrew world for Sheol was grave not hell. And the Old testament states in several places that when you die you go nowhere.
Quote:
“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks” (KJV)? They also cite Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. . . . Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
You have to wait until the New Testament for this creation to appear. I always thought of it as a threat to keep one in line.
However studies show that the threat of a death penalty does not deter crime because the perp believes he won’t be caught. Same with the threat of hell many do not believe they are bad or that it even exists. I see it as a total failure when you witness the corruption and crime we live with today.