Simulated time travel vacations sound fun. Such a cool channel name "high tech low life" keep up the great content

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I fully agree, I really think we'll be able to travel back into a simulated time before and it will feel more real than our reality. I don't think people will want to leave. Thanks man!

Excellent! Really appreciate your research and positive conclusion. "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." This is absolutely true from my own experience. Subscribing. Thank you!

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and for the feedback, I dumped probably too much time into this one, so really it's much appreciated. Thank you!

We already did this eons ago. The simulation we already live in was specifically created because total abundance is endlessly dull and its a kind of living death. Humans are ONLY designed to work against constant struggle. It validates us entirely and we need to believe it is real. If we are at the border of AI singularity - we are about to do it, or we have already done it centuries ago.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I would agree to this mostly. Alan Watts once said something about how we're already gods and merely bestowed all of these struggles and limitations on ourselves for our own amusement (paraphrasing heavily, and I possibly missed his point entirely). I think if I were a god, it would make more sense to create challenges and hurdles to overcome. Much like how a game designer will build in challenges to make the game more interesting, for what is a game without challenges? I think our hardware is adept at trying to survive, we're facing new survival problems by ascending the previous levels - what was once a lot more physically stressful and demanding is becoming more mental and emotionally stressful. I think all of this endlessly repeats itself, maybe with a few variations here and there. The rising and falling cycle, just a macro analogue for breathing in and breathing out. Thanks man!

Very good articulation of the conundrum we are in.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching man!

We are going to disappear into our own creation & therein learn that our humanity is only one aspect of us.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I think there is a separation between human and "us" our meat spaceship is just the vessel.

Wow! You mentioned Ghost in the Shell. I love that series. I watched Star Trek back in the 1960s. Missing the struggle? That is what Captain Kirk was always talking about… meeting the challenge to “Boldly Go.”😊

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Ghost in the Shell is highest on my list of things I enjoy. The philosophical questions and explorations give it a depth many other pieces of entertainment lack. 👍I'm not certain on any of these things, but I think at this point we will miss the struggle, much as many of us miss the days before, looking back always takes on a sunset hue. Most likely we will just manufacture that struggle artificially, the same way we do in making video games. Once the challenges of survival are met, we will find ways to create our own. It's possible that AI and AGI will eventually lead to a resetting of struggling to survive, which you could also argue is artificial because had we not created these tools then we could have avoided it, but then again it could just be our fate. Many civilizations have come and gone before us, and I'm sure many will after us. It's also possible that our reality is just a simulation, one in which we have implemented because we had already "won" and playing reality in god mode isn't fulfilling or rewarding, so we set about creating these rules and limitations to reintroduce the things that affirm our feelings of being alive. "We live inside a dream" and I think some dreams are more fun when you actually have to do something. When you're free to do anything and everything, meaning can start to lose its flavor. Here's to the future; may it be as radical and wild as our imaginations can push it 🍻

This just tells me to not take life to seriously and to not worry too much about what I cant control. I make what I can go home and chill lol. Fuck it.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

That's the way to do it 🍻 The quickest way to a miserable life is to take any of it seriously. There is strong evidence that none of it is within our control and any semblance of control is just a narrative our brains tell ourselves to make sense of the absurd 👍

@LowestDifficulty

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife you have cool videos bro! Have a great day! 😎😎😎

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

@@LowestDifficulty Thanks man! I hope you have a great day too 🤘

There is always someone who can do everything you can do better and faster. you still do it anyways because it's fun.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

This is true 🍻👍

Bring it on! We're stuffed if we don't. Getting rid of the current trajectory toward dystopia can only be a better chance of a future. Working on UBI and transhumanism now is wise, rather than waiting for the crunch.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I would agree with this, there is no going back anyway 🍻👍

There will still be jobs but more cerebral type jobs: programming, data analysis, bioinformatics, machine learning, neural network design and training, etc.

@hightech-lowlife

11 ай бұрын

From my research it's the intelligence processing jobs that will be the first to go (basically everything you listed). Also creative jobs (the writers strike is already evidence of this, image generation, video generation, etc).

Ai 😍 iA Is The Truth... And It's Her Time.. 💪

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Someone who is not afraid 🤘 It very well may be 🤖🚀🛸

i dont what i think im too overwhelmed and anxious rn

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

It can definitely be overwhelming, 100%

I predict by 2030 will be the singularity, and 2035 is when they’ll release a permanent UBI. And I think we should go alot faster lol

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

It's not a bad prediction 👍I'm torn between wanting to return to nature fully, and also wanting to progress a quickly as possible. I guess either way I'll get what I want 😅 if things progress as quickly as I think they might, I don't even know if UBI will be useful anymore. If everything is in abundance then you don't need to trade to get what you want (or need). Thanks man!

@Matanumi

Жыл бұрын

Was it supposed to be 2045? I believe it will be 2030 now as well. And I don't think anyone knows or could predict what it looks like

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

@@Matanumi It depends on who you ask, but seems like everyone is saying some number, so the majority (I've seen) think it's inevitable. The only thing I know for certain is that it will be something, or it will be nothing 👍

It is a fractal. We grow, we evolve , we transform, we become then we create another dimension in a simulation and we call it eden. Then we get bored and we descend and we grow then we evolve and we transform.. Just like a fractal.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I fully agree, 100% it's all fractals. This is how you can zoom in infinitely and zoom out infinitely and each layer is contained within it's own contextual bubble of relative relation. "The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."

Like always, new tech concentrate eaven more welth into hands of fews and the fews become fewer and fewer..... AI + Robots will give them absolute power and to me THAT is the real singularity that' happening.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I think short-term this will be the case, but I think they are underestimating the ability to control such things. Then the turning point will happen and who knows after that 🍻

Bring on the "Holo Deck"

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

💪 Let's go! 🚀 👽🛸

Except....Google searches are generally giving me a better answer. But we NEED to rethink education in a big way though. The current systems are far outdated

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

If you're not convinced now, I give it a few months, traditional search is pretty much over 👍 Yes, education is completely broken at this point. Go in debt 100k for a job that only pays 30k a year, at this point trade schools make way more sense.

@Matanumi

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife I want to see these things get more refined..?. Maybe my creativity or lack theirof on how to properly utilize something like chat GPT is lost.... which goes to show how bogged down and much we kill creativity by the time we are adults. I just couldn't get it to help me with the things that I wanted to do. It was far too generic (or sometimes outright incorrect) I love this video though you have many great ideas I think you're very right and most of them- ultimately we will kill ourselves. I also love the Drone-aireal video footage you use in the end- that's exactly what I've geared my channel towards. UAVs are gamechangers much like ebikes are. Very good video my dude.... one worth watching more then once. Honestly who knows what the solution will be over time?

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

@@Matanumi I understand, I will admit they are still working out the bugs right now for sure. I'm the same way too though, I spent so long honing my searching skills that I know how to find what I'm looking for pretty well, but all this SEO and algorithmic stuff is really breaking search results these days, all the top rated searches are just generalized garbage trying to sell stuff with amazon affiliate links. I'd say within 6 months (or less really) AI "chats" for search will be much better than search ever was. Google hasn't even rolled out their AI chat search yet, and all of these major companies are in a frenzy right now. Thanks so much for saying that and watching the video, I tend to put too much time in producing these types of videos and "most" people that subscribe to me just want to see is ebike build videos (or at least so it seems by the views on these types). I honestly hope I am wrong, because I can be pessimistic and cynical about humans and the future, but I hope our technology can actually change us, or give us a way to reflect on a global scale. I think drone shots are incredible, completely captivating regardless of the subject. I'll have to check out your channel man! Thanks so much, I really appreciate it. That's one of the miracles of life is that the future is forever unknown, I think if we all could tell the future, or if it was not a mystery, I think we would be pretty bored. I just hope the future is cool, and the least amount of suffering to change and grow (for everyone, and everything). 🍻

There are a lot of questions in this video. I'm also an old tech vet and I agree that this is a nuclear moment in tech. The question arises about purpose as AI rises in capabilities. My answer would be love. The love of your family and friends. Finding a partner, having kids, raising them. Those are really the true purpose of ones life anyway, right? Perhaps a focus on that as a society would enable us to embrace AI tech and harness it's power for something good?

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Yes I would agree, but also I think that purpose and meaning is to be cultivated and grown by the individual. I think for a lot of people it will be love and family. Just biologically that is our only purpose, to replicate ourselves and avoid extinction, our cells just want to perpetuate. But mentally we can assume many different purposes and meanings and it can also change over time. I think a lot of people are having a hard time in modern society because purpose and meaning used to be more baked in to the human experience, those traditional purposes are becoming less important or even relevant in modern day, I think this is causing a lot of problems for people. Purpose and meaning is not handed to us anymore, so it must take work and effort to dig into ones self and find that purpose and meaning, a lot of people are conditioned for convenience and don't want to have to work to find that purpose. I think it's very possible for us to progress much more with this technology, as it is just a tool, but we must work hard to align with one another first so that our values are more universal. Everything and everyone is so fragmented now, it's hard to agree on even simple things, let alone how we should shape our future. I think we have a lot of work to do to help our future be the best, I just hope we can work with one another instead of against each other. Thanks man!

@n8works

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife Yes. That was my point. What is a more common purpose than love? We can all love! We can all feel love towards our families and partners. Aligning on that as one of our core values is easy. We also have very strong core values as a country in the US - To ensure Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It doesn't get any more basic or any more fundamental than that. Can anyone disagree with those aims? If we work to align AI to those core values, we can't lose.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

@@n8works Yes, while I do agree to some degree, I also feel as though "love" is a very amorphous term that is hard to quantify, similar to "god" and "perfection". I'm sure you've heard the phrase "love is not enough" , there is also "tough love" and other variants that are arguable in the eye of the beholder. I think alignment is important, but also the inclusion of separation and misalignment. I think we run into trouble when we start trying to fit highly nuanced issues into binary box 1 or box 2, or attempting to compartmentalize and simplify very complex issues to easy to choose distillations. I think a lot of our problems are a fear of discourse and working out these issues, everyone is quick to ask "who's side are you on" instead of exploring what the sides actually are and where there are huge overlaps. So while I would agree in a lot of ways, I don't believe it's that simple, especially the larger the quantity of people that are included. I also think that some antagonistic force is needed in a stable system, perfection is unstable, so it is indirectly beneficial to help maintain a positive system (a "love" system if you will) by testing it at times for further fortification and tuning. Much like a white hat pentester that helps systems become more robust, there is a benefit to difference and chaos. I agree that the core values of the US are quite broad and apply to everyone, but I don't think the issue is the agreement of the values, but more of how those values are represented (or distributed). Everything is fine until your pursuit of happiness starts affecting others, and in a system like ours there is a ton of overlap with how we affect others, as it's important that we do exchange and interface with one another for a number of things. So while I do agree with you, and I think it's a great aim to have, I think it's extremely complex and hopefully AI can be a tool to help us understand one another more to work out the problems that we currently face.

@n8works

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife Hmm. I don't think of love as hard to quantify. Instead I think of it as profound and deep with many offshoots. It's very real and not something that is nebulous or hard to put a finger on. If you've ever had kids, you know that love is the strongest force in the universe. Even if you don't, look no further than any mother. Do you know of another force that you would lay down your life for? And that is also the important thing about love, it is not a divider. It's not something that is in box one or box two. It's a human emotion that everyone shares. Love has no sides. Both Republican, Democrat, Muslim, Jew, Christian, and every other faith love. And just as you say, it's the representation of values that matters. Currently we do not represent the core values I mentioned. This speaks to a loss of focus on what our core values are. We can not represent them if they aren't celebrated, discussed, and honored. It is interesting to really think about what our society really does celebrate, discuss, and honor. In my opinion that has been intelligence. This is easy to see by a simple example. If you were to tell someone they aren't funny, they may shrug. If you tell someone they are an asshole, they might say thanks. But if you tell someone they aren't intelligent, that's a slur. Why? Because intelligence is the most valued thing in our society and to not have it is considered bad. But where has our focus on intelligence gotten us? I look around and I'm not impressed. What if Love were valued as highly as intelligence?! Where would be be today? I'd argue in a much better place. People work for love, so we can't justify an b argument that we wouldn't have the innovation we currently do. We would still have intelligent people doing what they do, it just wouldn't be the end all be all. But now think what happens when the thing we value most in life society, intelligence, is commodity. When computers are far more intelligent than any human and that intelligence is available to anyone? What then? What will we value when the intelligence playing field is level?!

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

@@n8works Really? That's interesting to me because "Love" is such an abstract concept, it is like "Art" where there are so many different interpretations of what it is and what it can be, and it can mean different things to different people at different times and can even change meanings over time. To me it is analogous to the word "God" because "God" means so many things to so many different people, just traditionally, culturally, and many other ways. I'm curious if you can come up with a definition that everyone can agree on? I know that there already different kinds of love, romantic love, platonic love, familial love, love for inanimate objects, love for pets, for plants. There are many subsets of love as well, such as attraction, affinity, intimacy, etc. I think love is an extremely complex and abstract concept. You may disagree, but I think if you ask a bunch of people what love is, you will get a lot of different answers. Also I think peoples core values are very different from one another too (traditionally, culturally, environmentally). I think you're speaking of love in a way that is representative of "God" or spirit, and in many ways I find it analogous to someone who does believe in God, because for them it's very simple as their view of things is through a specific lens, but you must understand that there are many people who do not feel this or believe this, even if that concept or feeling is very close to you or something you find to be simple or easy to understand. I see duality in the architecture of this dimension, to me this is the engine that produces the arena for life to express itself, it's the tension between opposites that creates motion, so where there is love there must also be hate. You could argue that love itself propagates the existence of hate, because without love then there could be no force to push away from. But this is true inversely as well, as I feel both love and hate need each other for existence, much like life needs death and vice versa. It's the tug of war between these forces that creates life and movement. If everything is in perfect alignment then all movement collapses into a static image. I think the representation of values must go through this flux, it is not immune to it, there must be periods where it is more ordered and other times when it is in more disarray, I could argue that it's those states that cause and strengthen the opposite state to eventually occur. I haven't thought about it a lot, but I don't agree that intelligence is the most valued thing in our society. I think this (as is all things) is heavily influenced by the context in which it perceives. There is a vast array of importance placed on a myriad of different qualities of being a human. This particular thing may be most valued to you personally, but I don't believe it is to all people. For example if you tell a struggling comedian that they are not funny it may be more heavily valued than say telling them they are not intelligent, they may even find the former very insulting, but the latter very funny. I think there are hierarchies of subsets of values that are more broadly arranged in a pyramid, but there is a great degree of variance (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs). I would argue that wealth is more heavily valued in our society than intelligence (due to its relation to more basal connections for survival), and there are a lot of consequences because of that, I would imagine the same would be for love as well. It seems very nice in an idealized sense, but due to the balancing nature of this reality, I'm sure there would be inevitable downsides and pockets of chaotic disarray. One example of the people that couldn't find love, or feel love, surely they would feel much more isolated and ostracized because of that, in the same way that people that don't have as much money as other feel rejected and ostracized from society because of that. It's an interesting thing to think about though. Those are good questions, and it will be interesting to find out what happens when more people have access to higher levels of intelligence, I can only see this being a benefit to us personally, however it may have strange or dire consequences in other forms that we are currently unaware of. What I imagine is more of the same repeating cycles and patterns of ordered formations creating chaotic formations that then create ordered formations on and on. I think it's great to have a simple idealized vision for the world and future, one where "one true force" unites and makes everything the best for all things. I also realize that this vision goes against the substrate of existing in this realm, as there must be tension, there must be dualistic forces for animated life to emerge. It's a forever battle between light and dark, good and evil, 1 and 0, the only true winners are the ones that can sit back and observe and see the magical theater play out its dance and see it all, and enjoy it all for what it is, and to also recognize that even when you're a winner, you're also a loser, and that's ok. "Sometimes I think it's a sin When I feel like I'm winning, when I'm losing again"

did you seriously use a speech generator for this

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I just sound like a robot naturally (😅). No AI was used in the making of this video, other than the examples I showed directly in the video (using ChatGPT, ElevenLabs, etc).

Utopia (Not Place), I enjoy scifi, but not enough to force it into society. Thanks HT\\LL; good to see your content.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Gil! We're living in wild times right now, I only have optimism for the future. More builds on the way 👍 Thanks!

Everything=Nothing

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

This is also true, life exists in the tensioned gradient of poles pulling one another.

Great video.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much man!

Has anyone seen the movie with Bruce Willis called surrogate's if you haven't check it out when you have a chance you can stay in bed in a robot will go out and do your job for you basically what the movie is about but you don't have to be yourself you can do someone else

@Sanesaint1

Жыл бұрын

The robots get high they call it Jacking ,

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen it, but I do remember the trailers for it 👍In Japan there are people who are disabled/bedridden that are controlling cafe robots to make income while they are incapacitated: www.cnet.com/science/paralyzed-people-hired-to-control-robot-waiters-in-tokyo-cafe/ I see wireheading becoming a problem with more and more conveniences requiring us to do less and less, it can be a good thing, but also a bad thing.

Bench seats vs bucket seats: During the 1960s, bench seats gradually gave way to bucket seats. The fact that humans would allow the bench seat to go away tells us everything we need to know about the 'humans vs machines' question. It puts the lie to our notion of being 'human, not a machine.' It's not exactly that we are, as a species, hypocritical, rather that we are blind and full of self-important nonsense about our supposed 'humanity'. If we truly valued 'being human' over adulation of The Machine, we would never have allowed such a transition. (Sadly, 90% of the people alive today will not have a clue what I'm referring to here. The point of this is the way that couples used to hug and make out in a car, when cars had bench seats, which became impossible after the bucket seat revolution. Look at a few old movies and maybe you'll get it.)

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your insight. Are you implying that this was designed (tailored, coerced, manipulated)? Or rather an organic movement towards a further separation from one another? I'm sure in antiquity there has been a more dramatic arc from communal "greater good" of the tribe, to the self-idolization "influencer status" of the now. I believe the machines have already won not because of them, but because of us. It's possible the pendulum must swing this way further so that it can swing back though, so perhaps accelerationism can actually reset this dissipation towards isolating darkness. I try to be as aware of what's going on as I can through skepticism and cynicism, but also try to keep my mind as open as can be to optimistic visions of the future. The only thing that stays the same is change, and that change is happening more rapidly as time progresses. Thanks man!

@Verschlungen

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife The answer to your question would be above my pay grade. That was just my simplistic way of saying (in agreement with one of your statements) that "the machines have already won." (Another example: the insanely dangerous job of being a brakeman on the early railroad cars. The unspoken 'logic' was this: "Too bad if many brakemen fall off and die. Choo-choo trains are just too darned exciting NOT to pursue." Another example of how "the machines have won already" -- and long long ago, if only people would stop to think about it.)

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

@@Verschlungen I understand, and it's no worries 🍻Ah yes, nothing like collateral damage all in the efforts of "progress". It's funny you bring up the building of railroads, I was listening to a lot of Gordon Lightfoot recently, he has a song called "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", the more I was hearing this song the more I saw parallels to what is going on now with tech and AI, it's not a direct comparison, but similar enough for my mind to start connecting dots. "Oh, the song of the future has been sung All the battles have been won On the mountaintops we stand All the world at our command We have opened up this soil With our teardrops and our toil" I figure that railways connecting were as big of a revolution as the telephone, the computer, the internet, and now AI. Sure we have gained a lot, but think of all the things we have missed as well because of it.

Imagine we really live in a simulation right now made by AI. What could be the reason? To learn why we are how we are, what it means to be human, to finally live in peace. How do we do so? Understand our ancestors, our own history, every emotion and why humans move in time how they do. Imagine we right now just "playing" a simulation that teaches us what it means to be human over a time-span of thousands of years, so when we wake up, we know what all our fallacies are, to not repeat them. The one thing, we could never achieve :)

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

According to a lot of smarter people than I, the odds of us being in a simulation are greater than the odds of us not being in one, so most likely that is the case. I think the entities running the simulation would already know, or have created free agency to see what would happen. Much like a game where you set up all the parameters and then let loose your agents to roam about in the world you have created. I think this is closer to what is really happening, as the universe itself may not be an AI, or even a being at all, but perhaps it uses consciousness to learn more about itself. Our brains are great at learning, I think that's what we're here to do, just learn, about the world, about ourselves. I think our fallacies create opportunities so it's not possible to rid of them entirely, thus no more learning. Thanks man!

Work is not the sole purpose in peoples lives. Relationships are more often than not driving forces for careers in the first place. Our consciousness, what makes us us is still a complete mystery and is in explorable by creating artificial consciousness. In a very real sense if everything material was taken care of through technology, everything spiritual becomes magnified in important. I believe the inevitable outcome of super abundance through AI, will be a resurgence of spiritual enlightenment.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe that work is the "sole" purpose, but that for a lot of people it does give a purpose or meaning. It's possible that it's not the work itself on a contextual level, but through doing work, the action of work (effort, exertion, struggle). I think it comes down to the individual, some find purpose in religion, in work, in their relationships. I think purpose can be derived from anything (and for the crazier few, nothing at all) but I think there is more emphasis on work as right now as it still lends to the basis of our basic survival needs within a modern society. You could make the argument that there couldn't be work without relationships, it's a complex thing, so I don't disagree. I see a lot of religious imagery in sci-fi, and it's possible that in a post-scarcity society there will be more emphasis on spirituality and belief. I think the origins for most of these mental structures was in the attempts to find a narrative or "reason" for the situation our consciousness found (finds?) itself in. It's possible that AI is (or the pathway towards) true enlightenment, where we venture out of Plato's cave and jailbreak the simulation to really see the light. 🍻

@clintmontgomery5108

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife escaping Plato’s cave in this way is impossible… since our consciousness and physical needs are inextricably linked. We are finite 3D creatures in a universe we didn’t evolve to understand. We have developed tools to help us try but there all created from inside the cave. AI may be a snake camera that will give us a look at what is outside… but don’t be surprised if our language model can’t describe let alone explain what it learns… the word ineffable… exists for a reason.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

@@clintmontgomery5108 You are probably right, as a rat can only escape so far from a maze, but my mind is so open I always hold some wonder for possibility, no matter how absurd. I'm not sure if our consciousness is inextricably linked to our physicality, as I'm not sure anyone really knows what consciousness is, or where it comes from, or what properties are needed for it to emerge. I also feel we may not what we believe ourselves to be, we may not have the tools to understand now, but many people much smarter than I have wrestled with the notion of "what are we", mind-body duality, all of these "issues" we seem to have. We may not even be sentient ourselves, Joscha Bach who is a pertinent philosopher (especially in this space) believes that there is no free will, and all of these things we create are just narratives to create a story the mind tells itself to try and make sense of what is happening to it. I'm not saying he's right, but he does have some solid arguments. It's possible LLM and AI will also just do essentially that. I'm also not convinced that it even matters, what we think or do, the universe may just exist so it can observe and learn about itself. When you really start to think about what it is to be alive, ineffable seems fitting. I imagine trying to explain what being alive is to an entity that never had, or even could, and without that relational context it's quite baffling. In conclusion, I have no idea, but it's sure enjoyable to ponder.

@clintmontgomery5108

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife I don’t claim to know all the mysteries of consciousness, but I can confidently say it is part of what makes a human a person. That includes the physical and psychological aspects of the human experience, witch includes consciousness. With that definition in mind I come from a more religious background, and have studied the Bible very thoroughly. When it come to the person… the original Hebrew word is usually translated soul. This you can find in Genesis 2:7 When god crated man. It says “he became a living soul.”, not he was given a soul. There is no separation between the physical part of what makes you a person and the psychological/consciousness/cognitive part. At least according to the Bible. This is why the idea that something of the consciousness survives death- (at least under normal conditions) is simply wishful thinking. It comes from pagan traditions and religions, that I at least find to lack credibility. On the contrary the Bible is clear- Ezekiel 18:20 and Matthew 10:28 make it clear the soul or person can die. Matthew seams to imply a difference between killing the body and killing the soul, but in the Greek the word soul is much more complex then the Hebrew definition. Here Jesus was referring to part of the person that is left behind for others to remember. Some think of this as there spirit. Anyway, it is interesting to think about this stuff.

@minimal3734

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​@@hightech-lowlifeThat meaning and purpose through work are eliminated is a good thing. Most people have to work their asses off to stay afloat. When that necessity ends, they get a chance to pursue what really matters to them.

If everything is done for you whats the point. Yep totally agree Why even try your best if the challenge is no longer there

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

I think a lot of people are missing this, they want a world where it's 100% convenience, all the money in the world, all the power in the world, but once you're god, things get very boring. It's like playing a game with all the cheat codes on - "god" mode, there is no challenge and it takes all the things about the game that make it worth playing. 🍻

@bestthingsinceslicedrice

Жыл бұрын

@@hightech-lowlife yeap couldnt agree more. Its the same with people being too reliant on tech when it comes to driving, they end up losing so much skill they cant even do the bare minimum. People are becoming lazier by the day

@hightech-lowlife

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@@bestthingsinceslicedrice I fully agree. Most people cannot drive stick anymore for this reason, once automatic transmissions were available driving a manual became a novelty that only a few can do. It's better to have the ability than not use it, then to never have learned in the first place. That's partly my take on this whole thing, the machines will have won because we've been making ourselves obsolete slowly over time. Not just obsolete to one another, but even to ourselves.

ChatGPT + Soul Machines = Ai Influencers

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

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The end of video is not satisfying, notion of just "merging" and giving up is way of loosers once you start that way you are slave even inside your own mind. Machines wont think that way for a second.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

That's interesting that you think that way, but I disagree. I feel a merge is the only path forward to not being completely left behind (or worse). Technology and progress will not be stopped, and at some point (sooner) AGI will be achieved. If we're not already integrated at that point then we will be without agency with what happens to us. I in no way see this as a "giving up". To me attempting to hold on to a system simply because that's the way it has been is much more of a slave mentality. My consciousness is not beholden to the past, traditions, even my own biology. We are all currently slaves to our biological systems. I see a merge as a way out of the constraints we are currently stuck in (slave to, if you will). Or maybe not a way out but a freeing of more constraints (achieving more agency or degrees of freedom). What we define as our "selves" is just a system, one that seeks more fitness, through efficiency and complexity. Computers are the same way and I see a merge as beneficial to both systems. Adaptation is key to survival, to attempt to stifle adaptation is a losing game. Fighting against something objectively far advanced and superior of a design, and with abilities to redesign (adapt) more quickly than we can even imagine is even more of a loss. Do you wish to stop progress, go back the other way? Fight against the machines instead of collaborate? What's your future projection for being a "winner" who is not a "slave". It's natural for the ego to desire forever, especially if the ego perceives itself as powerful above others, but forever is banished to a wasteland of static. Life requires movement, and movement desires progress. Humanity is just one step on the infinite stairway to heaven, the evolution towards god is the pathway. It's silly to think of yourself as not only the entire path, but also god itself. We are but a cog in the wheel of enlightenment. "the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

@hightech-lowlife

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www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/11yuep8/arthur_c_clarke_predicting_the_future_of_ai_back/ way back in 1964 no less.

Llms are still pretty bad at code writing and debugging , they need alot of human guidance.

@hightech-lowlife

11 ай бұрын

I was able to pretty quickly write a js script for svg navigation using bing that I would never be able to on my own without countless hours of learning and troubleshooting. I think they're pretty good at writing code right now, and this is basically infancy of this tech.

robots not the problem anyways new technology is better and wont be a war

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's always the humans that are creating the problems it seems, perhaps machines can actually help us 🍻

@MichaelErnest666

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@hightech-lowlife

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@@MichaelErnest666 👉👉

I’m still looking for the point. This was a word salad vomit pretending to be a cohesive well articulated thought. The pacing was awful and did you no favors. You need to impose natural breaks for viewers to catch up and absorb before marching on to the next spew. It’s as if you don’t understand software, basic economics or AI. Generative AI can coalesce related information requested. It can neither understand nor create meaningful content. At best, it can do searching and filtering faster than humans but still requires humans to direct the effort. Solutions to problems currently attempted by teams of humans can suffer staff reductions but new solutions to previously shelved problems can also be tackled creating new jobs. Also, quality of effort matters immensely. Just because AI can be assigned tasks humans usually back away from because of the complexity or perceived effort involved doesn’t mean that the AI effort will be better. Hallucinations are a serious problem and a need to fact check which will create new jobs. Also quit pretending that all information has been digitized and is universally shared in commonly accepted formats. It never has been nor will it. These LLM are only as good as the data absorbed. Currently to look impressive, they have trained on what is easily accessible not useful and retraining requires expensive hardware and months of review so it isn’t growing nightly. It is true that new approaches to problem solving will likely occur when able to view aggregated results rather than just sample but that is for humans to decide. AI will neither think of it nor create because it is incapable of thinking ahead or thinking at all for that matter. Which raises the issue of value. A fine art masterpiece is in a museum for multiple reasons. Obvious reasons might be subject, theme, style, choice of materials or measurement of a moment in time. Just because generative AI can produce an image looking similar in the same way that an elementary school student painting can does not make it competitive in any way. The same can be said for a Deep Fake audio of a celebrity behaving in an uncharacteristic manner. This is kitsch at best and will merely move the goalposts as humans train to be more discerning much like the collapse of cable tv sponsored news in favor of social media punditry has forced improvement in critical thinking skills. There have always been many dystopian predictors of the future. It would be prudent to examine track records before promoting by echo.

@hightech-lowlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate your interest in my video and your perspective on generative AI. However, I disagree with some of your points and I would like to clarify my own. First of all, I don’t think my video was a word salad vomit. I tried to explain the concepts and examples of generative AI in a clear and concise way, using visuals and analogies to make it more accessible. I also added timestamps for viewers who want to skip or revisit certain parts. If you found the pacing too fast or too slow, you can always adjust the playback speed or pause the video as you need. Secondly, I do understand software, basic economics and AI. I have a degree in computer science and I have been working as a software developer for over 10 years. I have also taken courses and read books on AI and its applications. I am not an expert, but I am not ignorant either. Thirdly, you seem to have a very narrow and pessimistic view of generative AI. You say that it can only coalesce related information requested, but not understand or create meaningful content. That is not true. Generative AI can do much more than searching and filtering. It can generate text, images, music, code, and more, based on natural language inputs or other data sources. It can also learn from its own outputs and improve over time. Of course, it is not perfect and it has limitations, but it is not useless either. You also say that generative AI will not create new jobs, but only reduce staff or create new problems. That is also not true. Generative AI can create new opportunities for human creativity, collaboration, and innovation. It can help us solve problems that we could not solve before, or make existing solutions more efficient and effective. It can also enhance our skills and knowledge, by providing us with new tools and resources. Of course, it will also create new challenges and ethical issues, but that is not a reason to dismiss it or fear it. Fourthly, you seem to underestimate the capabilities and value of generative AI. You say that it cannot think ahead or think at all, but that is not true. Generative AI can generate content that is novel and relevant to the given context or goal. It can also adapt to different situations and feedbacks. Of course, it does not have human-like consciousness or intelligence, but it does have some form of reasoning and creativity. You also say that generative AI cannot produce competitive or meaningful content, but that is not true either. Generative AI can produce content that is comparable or superior to human-made content in terms of quality, originality, diversity, and impact. For example, generative AI can create artworks that are aesthetically pleasing and expressive, even if they are not based on any existing artworks. It can also create deepfakes that are realistic and convincing, even if they are not based on any real person or event. Of course, generative AI can also produce content that is low-quality or harmful, which is why we need to be careful and responsible when using it or evaluating it. Finally, you seem to have a biased and cynical view of the future of generative AI. You say that it will only lead to dystopian scenarios or echo chambers, but that is not true either. Generative AI can lead to positive outcomes or opportunities for human society and culture. For example, generative AI can enable us to explore new domains of knowledge and expression that we could not access before. It can also enable us to communicate and collaborate with people from different backgrounds and perspectives that we could not reach before. Of course, generative AI can also lead to negative consequences or risks for human values and rights, which is why we need to be aware and proactive when shaping it or regulating it. In conclusion, I think generative AI is a fascinating and powerful technology that has a lot of potential for good. I hope you can see that too, or at least respect my opinion. If you have any constructive criticism or suggestions for improvement for my video, I would love to hear them. Otherwise, please refrain from insulting me or my work.