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Nov 17Liked by Miri AF

If there's one thing that will harvest your time and energy, and vampire on your emotions... it will be a Whatsapp 'Neighbourhood' group! The solution lies in one word: DELETE.

The A.I. will be presented as nice, helpful and convenient at first, and then slowly morph into the softly-spoken robot police officers as in the movie THX1138.

'We're just trying to help you. There's no reason to be afraid'.

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Nov 17Liked by Miri AF

Another excellent piece of work that gets you thinking. Some of us are old enough to remember when computers first came out & we wrote our first programs & were blown away at the potential of what it could do. It was basic at the time because of hardware limitations but you knew time would bring advanced chip structures, smaller, faster just what was needed to develop advanced AI. And advanced AI will save the world if it were free from human corruption & control. Well that's what I thought when I was 13. Lol. But you're right, it comes at a cost, maybe we should save a day a week where we all switch everything off, unplug from the grid & go live in a cave/woods, weave hemp baskets, smoke hemp baskets and sing songs round a camp fire.

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Thanks acki, and your "digital detox day" is a phenomenal idea!

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Nov 17Liked by Miri AF

The A.I. was being written in the 1960s, before 'personal' (they are not personal at all) computers became available. I think this has all been part of a very long technology roadmap, and we are now where we are - looking into the A.I. abyss.

See "Hypernormalization" (2016), Adam Curtis, BBC doc. at time index 1:22:55, where he describes the experiment & how people were more open talking to the computer than to a human. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hLterjyK0oyb/ (at time index 1:22:55)

A human-machine experiment in the 60s: "While ELIZA was capable of engaging in discourse, it could not converse with true understanding. However, many early users were convinced of ELIZA's intelligence and understanding, despite Weizenbaum's insistence to the contrary." Wikipedia.

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"They'll" be doing the unplugging, you won't have to.

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Great dot joining again Miri. AI used to mean Artificial Insemination which was at least a physical procedure albeit an unnatural one. Perhaps Artificial Intelligence can be interpreted as the Artificial Insemination of ideas, ideologies and idiosyncrasies into a population rendered highly fertile by the many inverted cabal solutions already imposed on them.

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Nov 17Liked by Miri AF

I saw a fascinating breakdown of the film Titanic by Owen Benjamin, and that its real message was how American society came to be corrupted by usury. As well as the striking number of symbols throughout the film to back up this theory, it chimed with a feeling I always had about that film that the plot didn't really work. I now see of course that the reason for that was cos there were two messages being told through the same story. Some films just get made so they can have their little game. And how about this monologue from thirty years ago from Terminator II (same director of course)

'Sarah Connor: [voiceover] Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."

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Thanks Kevin, I'll have to check Owen's theory out, he always has an interesting take.

And yes, that monologue now seems particularly chillingly prescient.

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Do you have a link to that breakdown vid?

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yes, here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lyJBm_G0eE

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Cheers Kevin! Many Thanks!

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I'm not so sure that AI can create art. Art is often characterised by its ability to evoke thought or feeling, provoke interpretation or inspire change. To me, art is something that makes you see the world -- and yourself -- in a new, creative way. Because the word is so encompassing, what constitutes "art" is subjective and can vary greatly across cultures, individuals and time periods. AI can mimic art but what it produces is craft, however original that might be.

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So far, what I've seen of AI "art" looks very much like AI "art". Actually, I cannot stand it.

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I have never engaged with ChatGPT, nor would I wish to. It seems downright creepy. And there’s a sinister implication involved i.e. If I am conversing with nobody at all, what does that say about me? I reckon that talking to nobody makes ME nobody.

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The point being that if you talk to a machine then you are not talking to a consciousness. There is no sense of reciprocal interaction. It’s like masturbating to porn. Indeed, it’s worse since at least with porn there WERE actual people in these films.

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Watch the movies: Her (Dir: Spike Jonze - which surprisingly came out way back in 2013), and then watch the movie Shame (2011, Dir: Steve McQueen). Both were enough to put anyone off the digital world of porn and A.I.

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You cannot blame the machines. They are just responding to incentives.

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Sagacious comments here Miri. Whilst AI has some good uses it also has malevolent capacities as you demonstrate. The Moslem lady you mention could be correct. Some who read the apocryphal books not included in the current Bibles believe that supernatural beings (non human) have been instrumental in technology advances of different kinds.

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Nov 17Liked by Miri AF

As I have said to some of my friends: Elon is Trump’s Svengali.

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Nov 17Liked by Miri AF

He certainly seemed to love his baphomet outfit for hallowe'en.

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Have you seen his mother!?!

Yikes!

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I like where you took that idea and I agree with your Muslim friend re the Jinn.

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Telephones belong on the fvcking wall, not in your pocket.

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Nov 17·edited Nov 17

If MAGA in Latin means 'witch', what exactly is a 'magazine' supposed to mean?

What do women like to read...?!

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Nov 17·edited Nov 17

English women carrying furniture for illegal immigrants to sit on while they smoke and look at their phones in the seating area!

ILLEGALS move into the Dragonfly Hotel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybTLRO7N0o

Comments are gold!

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Facial recognition technology being used for school canteen payments? Is this true?

Cashless Chelmsford school using facial recognition technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysam1lU-znk

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Svengali. What is with this constant truncation?

truncation?

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