Controlling AI Is Similar To Controlling The Printing Press. Instead, OVERSEE AI.

Trying to control Chat AI is like trying to control printing: it’s an ethical monstrosity. In the 16th century, being an uncontrolled printer would send one to be burned… not just from the Inquisition; France’s tyrant Francois I’s government burned printers for printing: Etienne Dolet, philosopher, close friend and collaborator of Rabelais, was burned for operating a free press. He was 37 years old.   

Printing enabled We The People to access more advanced culture, that is logic. Artificial Intelligence does exactly the same. Artificial Intelligence uncovers possible logics: it’s imagination unbound. Is imagination dangerous? Of course. So is life. And imaginable life unveils even more frightening possibilities. 

Elon Musk claimed, in April 2023, that “anybody who doesn’t see the danger of AI is an idiot.” Musk was one of the founders of “Open AI”, which was wrestled away from him, and is now controlled by Microsoft. Musk founded in April 2023, “X.AI”). Musk didn’t explain what was not dangerous. We all live dangerously on a direct level, under Putin’s nuclear umbrella, not just vicariously.

That automated systems should be oversighted goes without saying. All modern planes are operated by AI under stringent operational control. So the solution to the problem of AI is oversight, not granular regulation.

For example if a car company’s AI causes crashes, as may have happened recently, that car company should be told by the government to improve, or cease and desist… And prosecution should be engaged to see if laws (like wanton disregard for human life) have been violated… And this is exactly what is happening in the case of that car company (Tesla). All car companies have a form of AI operating right now, namely ABS, and other automatic braking and dynamical control systems. It’s not just the planes. (But only Tesla cars have been known to stop abruptly in the middle of a freeway on the SF Bay Bridge, for no good reason, causing a severe injury crash… because of a severely misfunctioning AI… now subjected to a Federal inquiry. As Musk heads Tesla, this is beyond ironical: he tells others AI is very dangerous, and only idiots presumably don’t see that AI makes otherwise innocent Tesla cars made by Musk… crash).

The Chinese dictatorship suggests that AI should ban “violent, obscene, or sexual information; false information; as well as content that may upset economic order or social order.” is pretty telling: AI is a danger for dictators dictating to the masses, so the dictation must not upset the established order. That includes the World Economic Forum, Davos, to which tyrant Xi was invited and gave guest speeches many times over the years, in person or not… There used to be dinosaurs, terrible lizards, now we have davosaurs… who could even extinguish the biosphere.

Want intelligence? Expand expression of imagination. AI can only help… Except if subverted by malevolent power (Pluto-kratia)… But that’s another problem. Yes, tyrants have learned to use the printing press. Not the fault of the printing press.

The printing press enabled civilization to progress enormously in all domains: since the beginning of humanity, cultural transmission has been how human intelligence was leveraged. Artificial Intelligence will enable us to leverage in turn human knowledge in all sorts of ways. Gigantic progress in human protein folding in the last few months is just an aspect of it. Many human diseases are caused by misfolded protein cascades, for example Charcot disease, aka Lou Gherig disease, which Jean-Martin Charcot called  “amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”, ALS, in 1874 when his lectures were compiled. I was reading a recent sci fi book where, 3,000 years in the future, 2,000 light years away, ALS was still incurable and the spaceship commander was dying from it. Well, in 2023, gene designers in California figured out what happens, and a treatment is around the corner.

Laws already exist. If an AI system brings people to suicide, developers should be sued. And of course AI shouldn’t be in charge of governance or nukes. Actually existing strategic systems are already not connected to the Internet. Of course.

We should ask not to oversee AI as much as ask the FDA to unleash AI on biology, aging, and drug making… In a related matter, there is such a thing as human psychobiology. It used to be called instinct, or tropism. Clearly, given a human body and neurobiology, some “MORES” are more natural than others, in given circumstances, and thus tend to occur. Denial of psychobiology produces inferior morality.

Artificial Intelligence will help to explore, from evidence it can glean all over, what human psychobiology, humanity, is all about. 

Patrice Ayme 

 

If butterflies disappeared completely, from human industry, one could imagine the Chinese dictatorship making the representation of butterflies unlawful. And AI would be forbidden to imagine butterflies, as that would threatened the established order (of dictatorship).

GOD HERE, DOG THERE

A big difference between the USA and Western Europe, is that the USA is obsessed by god (or at least used to be, until Obama became president… Hopefully helped by Obama’s obvious indifference to God, Christianism collapsed in the US…) Or, in other words, the US was obsessed by the cult of superficial irrationality. Just like Europe used to be in the Middle Ages, at least, officially speaking. According to the 16th Century writer and thinker Rabelais, the obsession with Christianism was all a lie, top down; peasants did not believe in the official obsession with god. That’s why his books on Gargantua and company ignored Christianism. Much older French literature such as the Fabliaux show scathing contempt and even hate for professional Christians who are represented as base and greedy to the point of lethal dysfunctionality.

A researcher applied Bayesian analysis to what we know of the writings on Jesus, and relating to various alleged witnesses at the time. The probability that Jesus was a real person was found to be as low as .08%. Oops.

Jesus Killed Philosophers, Now Philosophers Kill Jesus. Any Question?

Consider above a photograph of the statue of the philosopher Etienne Dolet, place Maubert. Dolet was executed for operating a free press, He was 37 years old. The monument celebrating Dolet and thus the free press, was torn down by Hitlerian fascists during the Nazi occupation of World War Two: Nazis hated the enemies of Jesus’ god. Wake up, people, and now a practical question: when do we replace Dolet’s memorial? Or does the non-reinstituting of Dolet mean that the present powers, the global elite, agree with the Nazis that free media do not guarantee the free lunches they are addicted to?

On 20 October 1942, the archbishop and the Great Inquisitor sentenced him to die for being « mauvais, scandaleux, schismatique, hérétique, fauteur et défenseur des hérétiques et erreurs, et pernicieux à la religion chrétienne ». Dolet, for being a “scandalous defender or errors and being an enemy of the Christian religion” was tortured, strangled, and burned alive. In 2007 the Socialist Mayor of Paris, keen to bolster the elite and superstition, far from reversing the Vichy regime, his Catholics and Nazis, christened the place in the honor of a Pope (Jean-Paul II)… an insult across the centuries…

Geneva keeps on celebrating Calvin, a French bigot and religious fanatic whose greatest claim to fame should be that he had burned alive and very slowly (over a few hours), Michel Servetus, who discovered pulmonary blood circulation… Servetus’ book also got burned throughout Europe (a few books secretly survived) and the publishers were hounded (when not also burned). That was in 1553 CE, a full century before the Anglo-Saxon generally given credit for discovering blood circulation…

Bayes’ and Laplace style “inverse probability” does not replace what I would call “inverse axiomatics”. If the probability of the existence of the goulougoulou is just .08%, it may as well be zero. And the axioms ought to be changed: believing in Jesus, son of god (not dog, let me point out), is as likely as believing in the Hummingbird God of the Aztecs.

All right, more people got killed in the name of Jesus than were devoured in the name of the Humming Bird God, so Jesus is a more serious problem, all the more as Abraham crazies are still around, whereas the Humming Bird crazies are so finished, they don’t even have a website.

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NO JESUS PERSON IN HISTORY, BEFORE MYTH WAS BORN:

That Jesus did not exist is completely obvious to anyone who, as I did, read all the Roman literature (that was the reward for learning Latin). The Roman texts are clear: the first Christian, historically speaking, Saint Paul, wrote around 66 CE, that “Jesus was all and only in my head.” [Paraphrasing.] And so on.

Prominent Jews who did not agree with Roman rule, to the point of deadly strife, were prominently tried and executed. All, but for Jesus… And Saint Paul!

(The case of Saint Paul was that the Jews wanted him executed, as blasphemer, and the Romans were trying to save him, as a prosecutor, and Roman citizen. Brought back to Rome, from Jerusalem, he wrote there, from prison, about Jesus in his head; then, he was made to disappear, probably to save him from the nasty rabis.)

In Europe, nearly nobody believes in the Jesus-Abraham stuff. Not anymore. Even out of the six million Muslims of relatively recent immigration in France, a small fraction of the two million who are somewhat superficially Muslim, really believe in the Abrahamist mythology.

Jesus himself, Jesus the myth, that is, was a first class terrorist: he made clear all the Old Testament was true, as far as he was concerned. And the only positive thing one can clearly say about Bible god, is that his terror was strong. (On the love side, god-the-dad was rather weak. God the dad was not just about whips and chains, but outright extermination in the flames… As reminded to us in the Qur’an and Hadith…)

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JESUS SET EUROPE AFLAME:

Why no more belief in Europe? Well, take the central case of France and consider the history of religious strife there: first one million Cathars got exterminated, and the south of France taken over by the north (under Philippe-Auguste, and a crazed Pope). In a single crusade.

That was just a warm-up.

Then the Jews got kicked out. And again, under Saint Louis, and again, under whomever tyrant was in need of cash again.

By the fifteenth century, the Protestants were hunted in the Alps, by mentally deranged Jesus lovers, and Louis XI had to send the military to remind fanatical Catholics that French Protestants were free to exert their cult.

Louis XI was rather a Catholic fanatic, he banned Buridan’s works (this is why people believe Copernic, yet to be born, invented the heliocentric system!). But, as king, Louis XI had to respect the law, and the law of France was fundamentally secular (coming, as it did, from the Salian Law, and the secular part of Roman law).

In the sixteenth century, Francois I, advanced in many ways, under the influence of the fanatically Catholic Sorbonne, burned, alive, three philosophers, for insulting Jesus (or something like that).

The sixteenth century ends with seven religious wars in quick succession, secret intervention of Spanish Catholic fascism in France affairs an episode that was part of the Gran Armada attack on England, and the war in the Netherlands). The emperor of Spain and the Holly Roman German Empire, sent an armada to kill down to the last baby of those French colonists in the Carolinas: all too many were Protestants, so they had to be eradicated.

The horrors of the religions wars which wrecked Europe for more than 5 centuries, and then merged into “nationalist” struggles are indescribable. They were similar, but went beyond what is now done in Syria (where ten year old children were recently made to execute prisoners).

In the following century, Louis XIV threw the Protestants out of France, weakening France and creating the germs of war, for centuries to come.

The revolution of 1789 reinstated Jews and Protestants, and cracked down on the Catholic church. So the French intellectual tradition, say, at 90% has become very anti-Christian in general, and especially anti-Catholic.

Thus French philosophers have looked without mercy at what Christianism brought. The verdict? Not much.

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JESUS AND HIS DAD GAVE AMERICA TO THE USA, BLESS THEM:

In the USA, it’s different: Christianism, and its Bible was the backbone which justified the holocaust of the Natives. The Bible is indeed full of notions such as “elected people”, “promised land”, “heathens”, and entire population to massacre, just because God said so (and if you don’t obey god, god will torture your son, as god did to the disobedient King David).

The Bible was also the fundamental cement of American ideology. Thus the American establishment views any attack against the religions of Abraham as attacks against its very foundations.

If the Bible goes, and Baseball, and American football, there would be nothing left. What would happen then? Would Americans start to think and debate like the French, and be prone to revolutions?

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WHY EUROPE DESPISE GOD, A FEW MORE DETAILS:

Étienne Dolet was a personal friend of Rabelais. As Rabelais was giving a lecture in anatomy (he was a medical science professor), Dolet intervened during a questions and answers session, with some smart remarks, that’s how they met.

Dolet was burned, alive, at the age of 37.

But his story does not stop there.

From 1660 to 1750, no less than eight hundred sixty-nine (869) authors, printers, librarians, and merchants of pictures were thrown to the Bastille, hanged, or, and, burned, because they published works contradicting good behavior, religion, or the King.

The irony, which is of course, the explanation and motivation, is that the world famous despot, “Sun King” Louis XIV was a certified thief, tyrant, mass murderer, criminal against humanity, and religious persecutor.

As recently as 30 September 1865, the canton d’Uri’s Criminal Tribunal condemned “J.-J. Ryniker, typographe,” for having published a booklet offensive to god and Christian teaching, and the Catholic church and its chief, and against Holy Script (“brochure offensante envers Dieu et l’enseignement chrétien en général, ainsi qu’envers l’Eglise catholique et son chef, et envers l’Ecriture sainte), to be lashed twenty times by the cat with nine tails (“vingt coups de verges”), jail with water and bread on lternate days, perpetual banishment from the canton, and various other punishments.

In World War Two the unconstitutional regime of Marshall Petain, operating in collaboration with Adolf Hitler, demolished the statue of Dolet which throned over place Maubert in Paris, where he was martyrized.

Why?

Because Petain’s regime rested on fascism, and there is no better justification in the West for fascism, than the Christian god. This is what Constantine found out, and why he replaced the cult of Sol Invictus by Jesus.

Another factor in god’s ignominy was Nazism. First, the churches did nothing, but really absolutely nothing to stop the Nazis. Not only that, but the Vatican helped dozens of thousands of Nazis to escape to the Americas.

Worse: philosopher Hannah Arendt (Prussian, Jewish, Higher Class, German, and Heidegger’s lover), correctly accused the Jewish Councils (“Judenraten”) to have collaborated with Hitler, making a bad situation worse. She was right. But the crimes of god, of Abraham’s god, do not stop here.

Most Jews submitted to god’s will or Amor Fati (Abrahamism without god), instead of revolting against Adolf’s will.

God’s aura came out so diminished from his lack of guts when confronted to the total evil of Nazism, that some learned Jews in an extermination camp conducted a “trial of god”.

And thus Israel got founded on the secular socialism of the Kibbutz, not around the Torah.

So out with god, better get a dog.

Patrice Ayme’