The power of AI and screens

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nickw wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:34 am Communitarianism is a theory that emphasises the moral supremacy of the common good: the good of the community as a whole.

A communitarian, thus, is someone who considers the community to be of central importance.
The rationale for this is the individual is a social being and can only flourish in the community.

i) The individual is naturally a social being who is embedded in the community. This view is referred to as the inseparability thesis.

ii) The community is morally superior to the individual. In other words, common good (social responsibilities) is preferable to individual rights. This is what is meant by the primacy thesis.

iii) Individual rights are superfluous in any community that is regulated by shared values, mutual understanding and love.

As far as the inseparability thesis is concerned, according to Plato,human beings’ social nature is necessitated by economic needs.
No individual is self-sufficient (The Republic 369b).
The individual’s social nature is designed by nature itself.
The individual is naturally a dependent being.
No individual is created to be able to provide for himself or herself, all his or her needs.
Therefore, the natural inability of the individual to personally meet all his or her economic needs, without external support, compels him or her to seek the fellowship of others.

Inherent in the inseparability thesis is also the issue of the identity of the individual. 'Radical' communitarians deny even the liberal notion
of the “unencumbered self”, since the self is always defined by the community.
McIntyre (1987, 1988) says that the individual’s life is understood only by looking at his or her actions within a story, a “narrative”.

From experience, we realise that one’s narrative converges with the narratives of other people, who then become part of one’s own narrative.

An understanding of one’s self can be attained only in the context of the community that sets up the form and shape and circumstances with the background of these narratives.
That is Catholicism, and that is what Catholicism means by "natural law". Survival of the fittest...so make everyone sick.
Do the people here who hate the Bible, also hate Catholicism. I think not.
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nickw wrote: Tue Feb 07, 2023 5:56 am How do we coordinate research for our common aim on this/these platforms?
I see a group with different abilities/skills who work together - just wishful thinking? Don't have much time to waste unproductively anymore

Here's hoping haha

It is not possible. It's the difference between watching a theatre production and watching a movie. At the theatre, no two people have exactly the same view point, so no two people see exactly the same play. Whereas on the screen, everybody sees the same thing, no matter what the angle. That is the two different jurisdictions in type.

The first tactic of the enemy is to pull us into their jurisdiction; to do this they only refer to us as part of a group identity. They impose their laws on the group identities they create... "conspiracy theorists", "white supremacists", "far-right extremists" , "anti-vaxxers", "climate-deniers", "misogynists", "sexists", "gay-haters", "trans phobes", "turfs", "racists", "Islamiphobes", "antisemites", "religious fundamentalists", "dis-info agents", etc. Placing ourselves in any type of group is exactly not the way to go. Make them come after the individual, that is all we can do.
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they stay away from me rachel,can't repeat my shtick

on a lighter note,i think the u.s. politics and media is run by an a.i.improvisational machine called jazzhands,,,it takes the pulse as it were of the nation a month prior ,and weaves as much into the "real world"

and all them groups you named are controlled opposition to acclimate said groups into the narrative.

you want oppose the narrative professionally ,first you ignore it.
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I've got to admit, Deep Blue has crossed my mind many times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue ... _computer)
Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. Development began in 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University under the name ChipTest. It then moved to IBM, where it was first renamed Deep Thought, then again in 1989 to Deep Blue. It first played world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match in 1996, where it lost four games to two. It was upgraded in 1997 and in a six-game re-match, it defeated Kasparov by winning three games and drawing one. Deep Blue's victory is considered a milestone in the history of artificial intelligence and has been the subject of several books and films.
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Interesting article

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/02/tr ... re-ai.html

https://www.wired.com/story/eric-schmid ... g-machine/

Some quotes:
The company reflects Schmidt’s unique position as a link between the tech industry and the Pentagon. Virtual replicas known as digital twins are common in manufacturing and could help the Pentagon develop hardware more quickly. And Istari is a building block in a wider project in which Schmidt is attempting to bring Silicon Valley technology and thinking to the US military
Digital twins, Istari - Ishtar.
“Let's imagine we’re going to build a better war-fighting system,” Schmidt says, outlining what would amount to an enormous overhaul of the most powerful military operation on earth. “We would just create a tech company.” He goes on to sketch out a vision of the internet of things with a deadly twist. “It would build a large number of inexpensive devices that were highly mobile, that were attritable, and those devices—or drones—would have sensors or weapons, and they would be networked together.
Lol! That is a quote to come back to....
Let's imagine we’re going to build a better war-fighting system. We would just create a tech company. It would build a large number of inexpensive devices that were highly mobile, that were attritable, and those devices—or drones—would have sensors or weapons, and they would be networked together.
Without the editorialising ^^

"Let's imagine"... I reckon Schmidt would imagine Google is a good name for the company, that mobiles are good sensors and that he's not imagining at all!
Schmidt offers another thought experiment to illustrate the bind he’s trying to get the US military out of. “Imagine you and I decide to solve the Ukrainian problem, and the DOD gives us $100 million, and we have a six-month contest,” he says. “And after six months somebody actually comes up with some new device or new tool or new method that lets the Ukrainians win.” Problem solved? Not so fast. “Everything I just said is illegal,” Schmidt says, because of procurement rules that forbid the Pentagon from handing out money without going through careful but overly lengthy review processes.
Lol, again. The damn law is stopping the Department of Attack!
Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt in the 1930s saying that there is this new technology—nuclear weapons—that could change war, which it clearly did. I would argue that [AI-powered] autonomy and decentralized, distributed systems are that powerful.
Schmidt. Oh oh.. Now I'm wondering if ai is even real. I reckon it really is just a better bs generator.. But is it just an idea?

The wired article has other stuff too - worth a read.
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The only war that has been, is, and will be waged is against manKIND....with or without AI/SI.

Where to even begin..
since we are at fakeologist....

media fakery
television and movies
professional sports
pop music
injections
pharmakoeia/allopathic medicine
free pornography and sexual perversion
abortion
circumcision
fetal ultrasound
infant formula
hospital-based births
pre-school and daycare
school and UNIversities
taxation taxation taxation taxation
licensing
processed food/junk food
mothers in the workforce
false science
false history
cellphones
computers
social media
currency devaluation

I am sure I have just scratched the surface

and most don't even realize they are being attacked, probably because it doesn't look like this...
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Interesting bit on sock-puppet accounts.

Censorship And The Control Of The Narrative - UK Column News - 17th February 2023

Another YouTube ban, please see www.ukcolumnextracts.co.uk for back-up channels
Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-colum ... ruary-2023
- Haaretz—Hacking, Extortion, Election Interference: These Are the Tools Used by Israel's Agents of Chaos and Manipulation
- Guardian—Dark arts of politics: how ‘Team Jorge’ and Cambridge Analytica meddled in Nigerian election
- The North Atlantic Fella Organization: Twitter | Website
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Very interesting video that goes to show this technology is being actively deployed now and over recent years - 33 elections should cover a decent time span.
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The fact this technology stems from intelligence, makes one wonder where they test it before they deploy it?
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It wouldn't be a poor guess to assume Intelligence would test and run this technology in alternative circuits before deploying mainstream, which in turn makes it quite likely the conspiracy scene would be an interesting test bed for AI. And come to think of it, some suspect FAK users have been very willing to offer up images of themselves, some of which showed digital effects/defects...
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rachel wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 7:33 pm Interesting bit on sock-puppet accounts.

Censorship And The Control Of The Narrative - UK Column News - 17th February 2023


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Which brings to mind the concept of CHAOS magic.

The power of belief is important in many magical schools of thought. Magicians impose their will upon the universe, convinced that the magic will work for it to actually work. This approach to magic involves telling the universe what it will do. It is not as simple as just asking or hoping for it to do something.

Chaos magicians must believe in whatever context they are using and then cast aside that belief later so that they are open to new approaches. But belief is not something you reach after a series of experiences. It is a vehicle for those experiences, self-manipulated to further a goal.

Chaos magic is generally much less complex than ceremonial magic, which depends on specific beliefs and old occult teachings about how the universe operates, how things relate to one another, how to approach various powers, etc. It often refers to authoritative voices from antiquity, such as passages from the Bible, teachings of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), or the wisdom of the ancient Greeks.

None of that matters in chaos magic. Tapping into magic is personal, willful, and psychological. Ritual puts the worker in the right frame of mind, but it has no value outside of that. Words have no inherent power to them.

Peter J. Carroll is frequently credited with “inventing” chaos magic, or at least the concept of it. He organized a variety of chaos magic groups in the late 1970s and '80s, although he eventually separated from them. His books on the subject are considered standard reading for those interested in the subject.

The works of Austin Osman Spare are also considered foundational reading for those interested in chaos magic. Spare died in the 1950s before Carroll started writing. Spare did not address an entity called “chaos magic,” but many of his magical beliefs have been incorporated into the theory of chaos magic. Spare was particularly interested in the influence of psychology on magical practice when psychology was just starting to be taken seriously.

During his magical studies, Spare crossed paths with Aleister Crowley, who took some initial steps away from ceremonial magic, the traditional system of intellectual magic (i.e., non-folk magic) up to the 20th century. Crowley, like Spare, considered traditional forms of magic bloated and encumbering. He stripped away some ceremonies and emphasized the power of will in his own practices, although they formed a school of magic in their own right.
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