A POSITIVE APPROACH TO AI
Recently Tucker Carlson had an indepth talk with Amjad Masad @AMasad, CEO and founder of @Replit, an online coding platform that makes coding more approachable and social. He came to the US in 2012 from Amman, Jordan at the age of 24. His Palestinian father bought him a computer when he was six. Masad discovered his true language. He studied computer history and came to Silicon Valley. He has a surprisingly positive attitude towards AI and explains on what that optimistic approach is based on. Amazingly a mental paradigm shift has taken place recently in Silicon Valley with some sixty percent of high-tech firms having moved away from California to states like Florida and Texas (Musk) or leaving the US altogether.
Aug. 2, 2024 TCN: Amjad Masad: The Cults of Silicon Valley, Woke AI, and Tech Billionaires Turning to Trump.
Politically and culturally we recently saw much of Silicon Valley move over to the Trump camp after Peter Thiel's associate, J.D. Vance was nominated Trump's VP.
What remains of the old woke crowd is concentrated in tech oligarchs like Google, Apple and Microsoft who no longer can even be considered entrepreneurial, but as private arms of globalist governments.
A subject that is becoming more important by the day as the limits of reason and the Enlightenment are coming into view, is the branch of philosophy called epistemology, that deals with the question how knowledge is acquired.
For entire swathes of Western higher educated intellectuals the equivocation of knowledge with the physical brain and the brain with the computer, has become a given. They never explain where all that knowledge we acquire is actually stored.
They ignore proper philosophy that would prove them wrong as a form of astrology, they have disdain for anything smacking of religion and they lack the wisdom to see the hiatuses in their own logic.
This hubris alone is what makes them unscientific. Moreover, it prevents them from ever getting beyond their own conceptional biases. But Masad is made is different stuff.
I was recently confronted with a change in my own disposition in how I experience life: a shift from living from the head to living through the heart. It is hard to deal with, but at least I was able to work out how and what has happened. But I would not change back to rationalism for anything in the world (because that is what it is, most of the time).
Since the onset of the Enlightenment the 'rational' West has declared man has but one way to acquire knowledge, and that is through reason. But as we recently explained, that is cultural bias. Different cultures deal with the issue of epistemology in different ways. Read it in "Eternal Hellenism: the Cosmic Story" (link).
Masad understands very well how Utopianism works as he describes the psychological processes behind the cult that systemically disseminates fear about AI on the basis of "reason". The story goes to show how rationality itself can become the source of insanity.
It seems to be coming from the usually suspected sources that have the Kingdom of God on earth (Paradise) as its standard of ethics. Relative to this Utopia, man and reality are such disappointments to them, that they proclaim the entirety of creation evil.
This is how reality itself has become the target of eternal strife for change. Read all about the cult of Gnosticism in "The Roots and Psychopathology of Marxism' (link).
The next step in the Gnostic program is declaring their vision of Utopia so highly ethical that is justifies camps and genocide. So there we are: the aim justifies the means! Voila, the last 200 years of 'enlightened' civilization!
Tucker brings up the book by Belgian Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet titled "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" (bookfinder). In the book he deconstructs societal conditions that allow collective psychosis.
Desmet identifies it as 'mass formation' made possible by the mechanistic, rationalistic world view on which the Enlightenment is based. It explains C-flue policies, but it also throws a light on other authoritarian developments.
According to the mechanistic world view, phenomena can be broken down into their constituent parts. The behavior of these parts can be explained through the laws of physics and chemistry.
Complex systems, such as societies, can be understood by analyzing the interactions between their individual components, such as individuals, institutions, organizations, etc. More in "Creation Is No Cuckoo Clock!" (link).
So what is the deal with AI itself? We wrote about it in a post "Transhumanism: What AI Is and What it Is Not" (link).
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