my research indicates the world is going through a complete transformation. i could be wrong.
but if i am not wrong, then there is something significant happening right now. if so, why aren’t more people “waking up” to see what is occurring right before them?
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i will definitely not be doxxing myself by sharing any of my research projects, custom tools or other resources that could identify me.
what i will say is there are enough of you here who understand what i am saying to speak plainly…
from my position in space and time, we coexist in an era of great opportunity. right before we begin mining and colonizing space, truly epic times. only a few will notice which way the winds are blowing. if you have the guts and savvy to figure it out by doing your homework, i say take full advantage of your observations. whatever your ambitions are. it’s okay to be a little selfish and make real change happen.
You’ve literally said nothing.
People really need to stop acting like we have some divine code or some shit hidden inside of us as a species waiting to be universally realized. We are apes, basic ass animals. We are what we are, we’re not awaiting some giant magic bullshit to wake us up. This is some legitimate waiting for a savior ass mentality. Live your life and stop expecting the world to suddenly give a shit.
A-fucking-men…and not in a divine or religious way.
In a… Fucking men kinda way?
Hell yeah.
Most people get their news about the world from social media or cable news. Both of those places tightly control the scope of information that they will allow to be presented on their platforms. It doesn’t matter if it’s fox news, cnn, MS Now, Facebook, Threads, or Tiktok they all follow broadly the same rules so that approved issues maintain their neat and tidy binary positions and suppress inconvenient issues that could cause someone to ask questions that don’t have expedient answers. It’s why the only issues the media cover are wedge issues with no possibility of reconciliation like trans rights & abortion and largely ignore broadly supported issues like legal weed or wealth inequality and when they do cover them they always highlight the minority opinion and frame it as the majority.
In the US there is also the matter of lack of education. At this point the majority of US adults have been through an education system that has been stripped of critical thinking skills and that acts more like babysitters with the power to arrest students. Most US citizens don’t even realize they can question authority let alone stray so far out of the opinion and consent manufacturing infrastructure that they could wake up.
There is also staggering amount of willful ignorance in the general population. It’s difficult to accept uncomfortable truths and most would prefer to live in the fractured pseudo-reality the media industrial complex peddles.
Does your research consider recency bias as well? More or less every generation looks at the world changing in front of them. And every generation considers this the most dramatic change ever. I remember the fall of the USSR and we all thought this is the most significant change in history - it was not. The internet and social media was the next big transformation and the sky was falling - we’re still here. All things considered, the generation in the right age bracket for military service in the late 1930s probably has a better claim on the most dramatic change happening in front of them. So I’m just wondering if you consider these biases?
And every generation considers this the most dramatic change ever.
And they’ve all been right. Technology improves exponentially, not linearly and we’re now in the curve of that exponential change.
So for each generation, more advances happen and more quickly than in previous generations.
Can you back up the claim of exponential change? For my money we get occasional quantum leaps that end in hockey stick curves.
Technology isn’t everything.
Up until 2016, Moore’s law had been true for a little over 50 years. It’s not an exact correlation, but the exponential growth in computing power has definitely been a significant part in today’s world.
I think “exponential change” is a bit too vague, but in many areas, like medicine for example, those areas far exceed exponential growth. Even seemingly “primitive” fields like farming is far changed from 50+ years ago thanks to the growth of computing.
The problems with describing this like one parabola are two-fold for me. If we look at the long arm of history, we as a species have been far less interconnected so knowledge wasn’t shared to the same extent it often is today. One of the reasons why a hypothetical Covid-819 would’ve killed more people. At the same time, various regions have gone through their own periods of trouble, dark ages, decays of empires, and religious doom. You’d have to interpolate quite heavily in the bottom part of the parabola to get started. Bronze tools could take a century to spread. Strictly speaking, Gutenberg didn’t invent book printing; China beat him to it. But the repercussions of his movable type were arguably far more reaching. Or more recently, the industrial revolution started around 1750 but didn’t affect a majority on this planet until about 50 years later. There were uncontacted people it never reached that were washed away by the 2006 tsunami. Where to plot these things on an overarching exponential graph become choices. And thus a statistic you’re forging yourself.
And then exponential means at some point we’re going to reach a point where we near constantly innovate stuff. You’d have to do the work of two scientific Nobel prizes before you had your first piss in the morning just to keep up with the pace. This pace of development isn’t sustainable. There has to be an out.
That’s why I would favour a model based on quantum leaps that show localised growth in hockey stick curves. Change today may seem fundamental and omnipresent. But 🫲 six seven 🫱 probably never reached North Korea.
I suppose it depends on the scope of your question. I’m far from being a history expert so my opinion is not a strong one based on concrete data. That said, if we think of humanity as a whole over the past 2000+ years, and plot on graph that change, i would bet that curve looks exponential. Zoomed into shorter periods or populations, there will absolutely be more variance showing that quantum leaps. Something like bronze tools while taking a century to spread, greatly increased efficiencies in developing new technologies, like iron and steel. The ability to communicate almost instantly around the world has taken that all to an extreme level.
I don’t think that exponential growth is something that can continue, and given my Moore’s law example, that ended a decade ago. But with technology like LLMs that can theoretically push things to the next level, ignoring all of the ethical implications and current shortcomings, that traps change could still go crazy for a long time.
Like I said, I’m no expert, and I could be way off base. It would be interesting to see “change” somehow quantified over the span of humanity and see what looks like graphed out. It’s definitely not linear growth, and it may not be purely exponential, but it for sure trends that way across all of humanity.
Your point on communication largely being the key to the rapid spread of technology I think is the most important part. It’s allowed technology to be spread fast enough that as long as you have the resources and a capable enough government that isn’t corrupt, and are relatively stable, your state can catch up technologically rather fast. This is proven by China and it’s rapid advances over the last 50 or so years. Not that they didn’t have help, especially early on from the soviets. But they’ve bought western products, and reverse engineered them and made their own versions. Between that and advancing education policies, allowed them not only to catch up, but in a lot of areas, surpass the west.
If African nations could fix their corruption issues (specifically exploited and kept in place by outside powers) and use their resources to grow their economies they could catch up quickly as well. Unfortunately there’s so much of a power unbalance, there’s not a lot of ability to nationalize diamond mines for instance.
Ukraine is another great example of how quickly a country can advance if there is enough of a will. Existential crises have a tendency to create a will. But if there was no Internet, and no fast travel, they wouldn’t have had much of a chance to defend itself.
the generations living today are stepping stones to the future. we are living in transitional times.
Stepping stones get you somewhere. Climate change ensures that we aren’t going anywhere and will die out before we evolve any further.
What is your “research”, and why should we trust it when you don’t even follow basic grammar rules like capitalization?
OP definitely sounds like someone who is doing “research” by posting questions to an LLM and thinking they’re discovering something new.
i have read and watched and listened to as much information/media from a wide and deep array of sources. i know that sounds trite. but it’s what i have done as a lifestyle for 15 years.
for example, the feds have been expecting a time of accelerating technological convergence (similar to “the singularity” or “a transcendental object at the end of history”) since the 1950s. something important (unknown to me) happened in the federal government during the 1950s. it was a systemic cultural shift from the top down. it could have been more of a bottom up series of changes. but i really don’t know for sure.
these are likely those times. the consequences are world changing and we are just at the beginning of it all.
this is what my research indicates.
I’m gonna be honest. You kinda sound like a conspiracy theorist. Can you be more specific about what you are talking about? Is this ai doomerism? Like they’re about to become sentient and take over the world? bc if that’s what you’re talking about then no, that isn’t happening. Generative ai cannot become sentient. Its really big autocorrect
This may not be what OP is into, but there’s an idea about Roswell that matches what they’re saying. Namely that America after the UFO crash was suddenly sitting on a bunch of new technology to reverse engineer.
So they did!.. And that explains America’s technical innovations since the 1950s.
So the Government set up a plan to slowly figure out and release all this tech (that’s a big change), and OP might be seeing AI as one of the final pieces.
Of course in actual fact you can traces the gradualness behind most technology, and look at the history of science to see nothing just popped into existence.
Part of the tech boom in the 1950s was from advances due to funding and science being concentrated and expanded (with the power of government funding) during the war years.
…and a bunch of the past 70 years innovations didn’t even cone from America. So really the Roswell-Tech-Boom theory falls apart. But of course like all conspiracy theories you can just recalibrate and retrofit it:
- Alien tech was given to other countries to release
- Universities were told to make fake histories to show gradual development.
- The Government only pretends to be incompetent to hide the great responsibility it received in the 1950s.
- Other people won’t understand because they don’t have my insights.
While generative AI can’t become sentient, people can very much offload throught and information handling to the glorified autocorrect.
And once it starts training solely on its own work, technological advancement may stagnate, as most people will be totally happy cooking this world to be told what they should do and think.
We’re getting to the point where the haves are placid and the have nots are powerless.
It’s not really about the algorithms; it’s about the evolutionary cul-de-sac humanity is shoving itself into.
Maybe eventually we’ll find our way out, or have another civilization collapse allowing the planet to recover and us start over again without fully eliminating ourselves.
i could and should write a book on the subject.
this isn’t ai doomerism in any way. imo we are living in amazing times, given one takes precautions.
Yeah yeah, the singularity…
…which is why modern mass produced houses (with paper thin flammable walls) are so much sturdier than older well built houses?
It’s why modern cars with subscription models for seat warmers and extra acceleration are preferable to older cars that just had seat warmers and top acceleration already built in…
…and why a radio play written by AI is 1000 times better than a radio play written by real people, right?
Because the singularity is making everything better?
Have you considered that all that media you’ve been consuming is premised on selling you on ideas and purchases? On technologies that aren’t necessarily better, but keep their sponsors happy?
Don’t get me wrong. AI when correctly trained can be useful. But I don’t think it’s the cure all people make it out to be, and I don’t think we’re anywhere near a singularity.
Here’s a video debunking a lot of the AI stuff the media claims:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=claxN4oxDuY
See… That’s a person who actually knows how to research. Where as just watching things isn’t really research. To properly research things you need media literacy and meta studies, and to understand the fundamentals of how things work… And to run practices and experiments on how things play out IRL.
Ultimately human labour (both mental and physical) drives the world 99.9% of the time, and AI hasn’t alleviated that problem except in the most innane areas (real estate agent copy writing and advertising copy writing).
Even programmers admit that when they use AI it’s not their best work, with many admitting it writes poor quality code.
I myself hooked some models up to Blender to allow it to create 3D scenes from prompts and found it could barely place spheres and cubes to mimic sculpting.
None of this technology is bright, or the be all and end all (extra training actually has logarithmically declining returns). So far, and for the immediate future it’s EMPTY HYPE, and human art, science, and WORK HOURS are still increadibly intense, and increadibly necessary.
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch… You may well have just picked up a bunch of rocks because the media told you they’ll be chickens soon enough.
my research indicates the world is going through a complete transformation.
My research indicates that such words usually end up in rape, mass suicide or occasional terrorism.
i understand the skepticism. that’s why all of my research tools are open source and why i admit i could be wrong about anything. always in pursuit of truer trues. always in alignment with the truth.
Out of curiosity, could you link to/share your research for us? The open source stuff in particular?
Basically they have done no research at all. They’ve interacted with an LLM so much that they’re even writing like one. It’s clear that they aren’t one because of capitalization errors. Something an LLM wouldn’t do. But it’s clear that they’ve gone down a rabbit hole and need to seek help, soon.
there’s no way i’m identifying myself here. thanks for asking.
The fact that their fucking faces are buried in their fucking phones mostly
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transforming in what way, societally, politically, or “terraforming”
Nothing but dribble. Give it a rest. Your observations are only relevant to yourself.
you are generally correct. but wrong in the most important way possible.
No.
Because to many people, ignorance is indeed bliss, and they like it that way. Once you wake up, it is normal to feel a sense of impending doom until you start improving the world yourself; then you have hope.
are you kidding. its not that people don’t see its that they don’t know what to do. you see people praising ai and damming it. I have been looking for work for over two years now. its a cluster but the average person can’t do a whole lot about it.
Propaganda.
I would honestly say it’s more Apathy than Propaganda.
Most people simply don’t think they can do anything, that it wastes their time, and therefore just tune it out and try to pretend it doesn’t exist.
Most people are shallow and artless. They’re not even well informed or educated enough to be apathetic. Apathy implies knowing the pot is boiling and deciding not to get out of it. They don’t even know the pot is boiling.
I work with a lot of Indians. They have been shocked recently by the arrest of some of their American born children by ICE. The children were thankfully returned but after talking to them I discovered they had no clue that the US is currently engaged in ethnic cleansing of non whites. And these are all people with masters degrees at least.
No. Apathy suggests people are aware enough the propaganda exists.
The world has been radically transforming for 2000 years. The rise of agriculture, the dark ages, the printing press, the discovery of the new world, the renaissance, isaac newton, the industrial age, the combustion engine, the atomic age, etc. There’s no evidence that current transformations underway are any more or less radical. It is a constant and uninterrupted transformation. We are biased: current transformations feel more profound to us simply because we are living through them.
For all the benefits of a cerebellum, humans are wired to focus on their immediate needs: food, shelter, water, sex. Yes, the higher brain can put a man on the moon, but that doesn’t put dinner on the table tonight, or pay the rent this week.
With limits to our energy, time, and attention, we (statistically) each focus on the here and now. Anything “down the road” (like climate change), is “tomorrow’s problem”. It’s not malevolence; it’s our wiring at a biological level.
The development of a cerebellum on top of our lizard brain was necessary to assure survival. But it came with some critical drawbacks that needed mitigation: We became aware of the nature of our mortality. We could spend precious energy consumed with tasks that gave future benefit (like farming or making tools). The equation stood to be unbalanced. The squirrel who spends his energy collecting nuts still needs to eat today’s meal. Humans couldn’t stand around helplessly fearing their own eventual death. We were therefore gifted with the ability to easily ignore transformative changes around us, and ignore knowledge/wisdom that our cerebellums deduce; instead simply adapt to whatever our environment gives us.
This manifests mostly as procrastination and avoidance. Inaction does not imply ignorance. We are behaving as we are currently designed to behave. All the wars, violence, theft, torture, and cruelty are manifestations of our lower brains, and evidence that they retain control. What humanity doesn’t grasp in its smugness is that we are not finished yet. Our evolution is not complete. It will require perhaps a hundred thousand more years for the slow hand of evolution to winnow out the petty behaviors that drive us. If we survive that long, we will become altruistic beings motivated by rational thought, acting to effect both our short and long term needs.
Until that day, the space aliens will do what they always do: have a quick look then turn around and go home.
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