Regulating Artificial Intelligence Is Regulating Intelligence: Tyrants Are Stirring

A tyrant… is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. (Plato.)

Some of the tyrants want a war against… Intelligence!

Europe has a deepening problem: long at the technological forefront of civilization, the EU does not want to be there anymore. Don Quixote was after windmills, Europe is after AI, Artificial Intelligence. In Europe’s vivid, but vile and woke imagination, civilization as a mission has been identified with colonialism, thus abuse, racism, etc. War against tyrant Putin is scarry and onerous, but war against the advancement of science and technology is easy, and an old European tradition: the first steam engine successfully installed on the first steam boat invented in Germany by a refugee Huguenot professor of engineering, was destroyed by monks stirred up by this devilish invention… which was clearly going to steal jobs away from the rowers and sailors of Europe… And indeed, has done so.

Now Eurocrats doing their Brussels dictatorial thing, want to be at the forefront of regulating AI. Some of humanity innovate, Eurocrats, in the footsteps of their Byzantine ancestors and mentors, regulate to death.

The New York Times, terrified from a possible loss of media plutocratic control soon to be, rises the alarm: “How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms
Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies.“

AI harms? Which harms? CHAT GPT is a wonderful way of learning… And CHAT GPT is what the terrified plutocrats are alluding to…. People are learning! It’s harmful!

Instead of advancing civilization, Europe wants to advance control by unelected tyrants who are cool with the powers that be. Europe prefers to be at the forefront of regulation of technology invented and deployed by others.

An example is space: right now Europe has no rocket which can launch anything to orbit. None. Zilch. Europa space kaput! Russia has them rockets to orbit, China has them, India has them (and landed a rover on the South Pole of the Moon, a world first!), and just one US company launched around two (2) rockets in orbit a week, throughout 2023… All right, SpaceX cheats: they land their rockets, as if they were vulgar planes, and then refuel them, and launch again. One has landed 18 times… Even a New Zealand rocket company, Rocket Lab, launched its state of the art carbon composite rocket nine times in the first nine months of 2023… The USA will end up 2023 with more than 100 launches and China around 60. And Europe? Europe, like Buddha, is contemplating its navel, fat ass anchored in something cushy. Who wants to launch?… chuckle the Europeans, as they roll the red carpet for Elon Musk of SpaceX, Sam Altman of Open AI, or any US tech billionaire they can find, and their Europeans eyes sparkle with joy and need…

The reason? European bureaucrats seem to believe that tech progress is puerile. Better go to “Net Zero” and enforce lots of “degrowth” to get there. Advantage: when Putin’s tanks arrive in the neighborhood, they won’t be able to fuel… As Europe will soon degrow out of fuel…

Artificial Intelligence will change everything.

AI is first about “Intelligence”. “Artificial” in “Artificial Intelligence” is just an adjective. 

CHAT GPT is first of all a marvelous tool for those who want to understand the world. CHAT GPT is much superior to conventional searches, and one can argue with CHAT GPT and actually make it recognize that its first answer(s) on a complicated subject, are inadequate or completely misleading, and then CHAT GPT becomes a way to explore new logic and worlds of knowledge which had been neglected by Conventional Wisdom (Conventional Wisdom and Conventional Knowledge is generally CHAT GPT first logic… but, if challenged by correct facts, it can excuse itself and correct completely its initial answer!)

When talking about “regulating” AI, one is talking about regulating “Intelligence”… And that, regulating intelligence, has always been the core consideration of tyrannies.  

The AI panic among the authorities and plutocrats was started by a CHAT robot who is mostly engaged in intellectual pursuits. Could it simply be that these potentates are afraid of the truth coming out more easily? The collective intelligence of the plutocrats who rule the world, is not very high, the competition that AI brings to the flawed plutocratic view of the world coming from the establishment could expose all the conspiracies which constitute the elite’s life support…

Even Plato, one of Athens’ golden youth, is right, sometimes…

To the preceding, Minkybear, from Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts, USA, replied: @Patrice Ayme Let me guess. Your job, unlike mine, is not at stake here.

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My reply: @Minkybear Indeed, you are correct Actually as an intellectual and philosopher, I find CHAT GPT extremely useful: I argue with it, and we get somewhere… in unexpected mental places, full of nuance and advanced facts. I find CHAT GPT more open than many, if not most, human colleagues…

As a scientist, I have a fancy non linear theory for the foundations of physics, the mathematics of which I cannot handle. Probably nobody can: Quantum Mechanics is about linear waves, my theory uses nonlinear waves, QM is an approximation of. I hope that AI will be capable of making the computations.

Make no mistake: I feel for you. Goldman Sachs said 300 million jobs are threatened by AI.

However, 2,000 years ago, 99% of the population was in subsistence agriculture. Now peasants are less than 2% of the population in advanced countries. Should we return to planting seeds by hand?

There will be new jobs we can’t even guess now. Morally, humanity is too large right now to be sustainable with the technology we have: we are destroying the planet, with that obsolete tech. We need much more advanced technology: AI will be crucial to develop it. An example is that AI solves proteins extremely fast, in fractions of a second… when it takes humans a decade to do so… For just one protein, it it is complicated enough….

So sorry, we humanity have to advance tech. It’s a question of survival of intelligence, let alone civilization, on this planet…

Patrice Ayme

Limits to Growth

Limits to erroneous growth have been reached, and broken straight through.
We are above 600ppm of CO2 equivalent manmade GreenHouse Gasses (GHG). Two-thirds of the thermodynamics forcing which heats up the lower atmosphere through infrared confinement (“global warming”) is caused by CO2… one third is caused by other man-made GHG gasses.

We have more than doubled the GHG “forcing” (from 280 ppm of CO2 to 600+ ppm of GHG). At such GHG ppm, the melting of the poles is guaranteed. Ultimately a 70+ meters sea level rise. This is never said enough..

The answer is more growth, but the right growth. Growth of intelligence.

For example, the present “renewable” push is rather dumb: lots of wind, smoke and mirrors. It is an OK form of growth, but it is insufficient: nuclear, thorium, hydrogen, fusion and fundamental research have to be pushed incredibly more. Instead Biden wanted to spend 3.5 billion dollars on electric plugs for the wealthy… Of the money which should go to fundamental energy research (he had promised 10 billions, now it’s down to peanuts… So much for being a “progressive”)

All the more as most countries will refuse to be bound by the limits to growth.

So what will happen when nobody feel limited by limits, and crash through them? War. The invasion of Ukraine is the first blatant case, it’s motivated by Ukraine having sun, water, soil, a natural huge breadbasket. But more wars will come, and quickly. Brazil’s president, an ex-MP and army captain, told the military to expect a war with… France… about the Amazon. As France is helping Brazil build its first nuclear sub, we can see contradictions galore are all over…

To limit the growth of war, the leading democracies will have to keep a technological edge over the rest… As science and tech progress is where the solution lies… War will bring a resolution to the problems which caused it. Tech will vanquish those limits, by making them irrelevant…

Denali: 5 kilometers of ice going up in the sky… Enjoy while it lasts…. This is shot from the only road in the National Park. The area is full of grizzlies which can be observed in plain sight, roaming to the point getting out of a vehicle is forbidden… My astute dad went to fish as close to this place as it could, as nobody else was clever enough to realize that there would be plenty of fish where fishers could be devored. While we got back to the car, an enormous grizzly showed up, nose in the air, irresistibly attracted by trout smell…

Patrice Ayme

ianmillerblog

A little over fifty years ago, the Systems Dynamics group at MIT produced a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Their message was, continued economic and population growth would deplete Earth’s resources and lead to global economic collapse by 2070. At the time, this was considered heresy. The journal Nature was scathing (See vol 236, pp 47 – 49, 1972). How could the foundations of industrial civilization, such as coal mining, steel-making, oil production, crop spraying, cause lasting damage? It was accepted that such industries caused pollution, but such effects were considered to be only temporary. At the time computer modelling was looked down upon. This is understandable; at the time computers were quite primitive compared with now, and big computers were only available to the major organizations. I recall four years before that someone doing a chemical bond calculation and coming back from the computer with what…

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