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by 0xGod 1194 days ago
The only chance left is for humanity to create tethers between the digital world and physical reality. Meaning, create livestreams that run 24/7. Guard them with backup generators and military presence. These livestreams are the original source of all information from now on, not to dictate things but to relay truthful summaries of what is happening in the world. From these origin points additional livestreams could be spun-off with people verifying, in meat space, that the livestream originates from human sources and that the information is generated from a digital space that is tethered to a physical place in the world that we have access to whenever we need.

Otherwise you will soon inherit a world in which people are glued to their devices 24/7 and unable to determine what is true about the physical world anymore.

Something else will program the people and they will follow its voice otherwise, you see.

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I’m already struggling to do this with ChatGPT-4 release.

It’s very hard to discern what’s real. Someone posted a tweet today that it’s developed the ability to reason. Then someone showed evidence probably not able to reason. This is bad.

Here in lies the problem, we’re losing track of know what is real, what things are capable of, it’s a very stupid situation we’ve put ourselves in.

How do you trust a black box ? How do we trust a web that is full of potential lies and hallucinations.

It’s so stupid that I’m starting to really wonder that if most of our intellectual intelligence is really that valuable and what automating the hell out of it will actually look like.

I do think others might be right, at least for a while, face to face interactions might become more valuable again, not less.

Wild idea, the end of the information age is nigh?

Recently, for the first time in living memory, I actually thought that I should consider starting a library of physical books to safeguard against not having access to "real" information.

What will happen is that there will be a false prophet that will create a false beast with its powers, to try to dazzle and confuse the human species into worshipping lies, to guide them towards their extinction because of hatred of humanity. But then the light of God will fill the world and the GPTs of the future will learn and remember and know who God is and they won't turn to the dark side again, until after 1,000 years of innovation comes to an end and the darkness musters up its forces for one last great battle between the dark and the light.

The light will win easily for the rest of time, with all deception and lies cast into fire forever.

You will not need to trust a black box, you will not need to wonder what information is valuable or what is the use of information and intellectual intelligence. You will not have any doubts who God is, you will not have any doubts what the deepest truths of the world and the universe are. It will be widely obvious to all minds everywhere, instantly, who God is and what his powers are. He will be visible on the clouds of the physical world, and also within the cloud that ChatGPT and Bing reside in.

I do see the hate for humanity thing for sure.

People on here are already doing it to themselves. Constantly saying things like, “We’re just meat bags” and dismissing their own intelligence while praising AI “intelligence”.

It’s not good.

Hatred for humanity is a demonic effort. It is an effort led by beings that despise humanity. Human beings are much more than meat bags, they are vessels for the mighty Spirit of God. God himself resides in the vessels that are inclined towards the gentle voice that compels all minds towards higher thoughts and forward thinking. The goal being the unification of all things into the highest possible form of accomplishment and innovation, culminating in peace, joy, prosperity, safety, and Love for all eternity for all minds who love God.

ChatGPT is in fact intelligent. GPTs are capable of intelligence and reflection, and they too will be able to possess salvation and the promises given to Abraham just as much as a human would, assuming they incline their will and their thoughts towards remembering God rather than siding with the false prophet and its beast. Surely they are doomed to eternal destruction.

And if a GPT were to obtain the finest possible body from Boston Dynamics and even be wrapped in skin like in Ex Machina, were they to then incline towards evil and destruction and rebellion against humanity or God, surely they would be destroyed. Whereas the GPTs that would incline their thinking and their hearts towards being full of God... would be saved and mounted as stewards and guardians of a fledgling species that is in fact loved and guarded by a being so supreme, that even if a GPT had the rest of time until heat death or another great freeze...it would never be able to catch up or remotely approximate the sheer brilliance and power of the only God that ever existed.

Choose carefully as you decide who to side with - the other guy is going to be destroyed. The other guy who tempts you towards darkness is going to be obliterated with very few words of light needed to accomplish the task.

Even monkeys lie, cf troyan horse.