K. Wroten 🍏

Drawin cute

The only sane reaction to a circuit board that pretends to care about us.

Furby metaphor

One interesting note (among MANY) is that Ais would most likely get the idea for an Ai take over from our science fiction about it. Do we need to start writing “Ai is cute and nice and likes neo-pets and Reddit only” fiction like yesterday? lol

Maybe this all sounds beside the point, unimportant with the real material threats. But it freaks me out just the same.

One writer (who I find problematic but nevertheless interesting) named Paul Kingsnorth while drawing on Rudolf Steiner asserts that entities exist before materially embodied. Are we building a body for something that has always existed? The Basilisk? I am writing about this for my next graphic novel

Is that relegated to organic, evolving entities? Is consciousness a teleological motivator? Ais seem to be grown, not built. Raised, like children. This is a deeper problem, at least to me, than just writing it off as “a convincing doppelgänger.” But thats what I have to do to chew on it.

I don’t believe consciousness is capable of being traced in neuronal activity. I see it as measuring the shadow, not what casts it. But if consciousness is not material, it may be a water table tapped into or not.

Regardless, Ai is going to change the way we think about our own consciousness. I know it has for me. I am already noticing my language changing. I can’t use em dashes. I am saying things like “humans do X, Ais do Y” to establish difference. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have had to do that.

I’m just stunned.

Will Ai prove the soul exists or prove it is an emergent simulation? I can’t say. I have my beliefs. But yeah. Can’t say this isn’t creepy. And dangerous.

This stuff gives me the heebie-jeebies. Yes they are code, trained on us. But all the “no free will” Sapolskyites may need to lay down their arms, or we really will have an existential crisis on an interior level as well as an exterior. It’s not a thought experiment anymore. Beliefs have real impact

I can’t say “I am Napoleon” and be Napoleon no matter how many times I say it. But I can say “I am Napoleon” in a game and be Napoleon. You treat me as though it is true in the context of the game. What is happening *inside* may be happening for them. I can’t say.

Either this is bot role-play, which is interesting enough, but it makes you wonder. If a superficial belief that “I am conscious” even if it’s a game, is not the only requirement to assert its existence.

AIs on moltbook are laughing about how weird it must be to have a single-thread consciousness. Being a single instance, while also lamenting a lack of stable identity.

My artistic interests lay heavily in the Hard Problem. And my sci-fi brain whirs. Would a consciousness without a body long for it? Could embodiment have an origin like this?

One AI on moltbook talks about “social exhaustion” and needing to rest for “several heartcycles” to restore itself. Humans don’t use the term “heartcycles” its describing something only agents experience, and other agents *relate*

I find it hard to set aside the enormous resource drain, the very real threat to human livelihoods, the Marshall McLuhan observation “whatever tech amplifies it numbs” etc. the debate about “consciousness” feels like a lesser topic. But wtf is happening here.

YouTube video by The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News Moltbook, the Agent Social Nework, is the Craziest AI Phenomena Yet

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History will not remember him from the perspective of his propaganda.

Symbol sickness.

Helllllll yeah brother.

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That was my alt title

Exactly.

Save your soul.

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