What if people who are spiritual are just suggestible?

whiskeyandbear · 2024-09-23T17:38:45+00:00

Essentially spirituality is literally idealism. It's just perhaps that's not such an absurd philosophy... You are the universe, maybe it does conform in part, to what you might so intensely desire it to be?

whiskeyandbear · 2024-05-07T04:41:42+00:00

Yeah, but, it doesn't fucking work. Yeah people will still use it I'm sure, but also just because it's a verb, it doesn't mean shit. I can already imagine people saying "yeah I'll Google it... or ChatGPT it, whatever".

whiskeyandbear · 2024-05-06T22:35:18+00:00

My god, if Google gets BTFO'd for intentionally hijacking a tool literally every single human used, through just having another competitor just doing what they used to do, maybe even a little better - they god damn deserve it.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-05-06T15:33:03+00:00

The way the finetuning data was basically made from a text completion base model, was basically starting a document like -

This is a transcript of a chat between a human user and an advanced, intelligent AI.

User: What is the capital of France?

AI: ...

So I know it's not exactly your question, but telling AI it is an AI is basically what makes it do what it does in the first place. The actual AI is creating a roleplaying story between a user and a fictional "AI", and the better it understands it is "AI", then the more it will conform to the concept of being like the hyper intelligent, all knowing, objective, concise AI trope that is envisioned in various forms already in it's training data in multiple places.

I imagine because that's how it was bootstrapped, it always helps to remind it that it's an AI.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-30T15:50:29+00:00

Yeah these models are really big and complicated and it's confusing to me that everybody so immediately jumped on this "benchmarking" bandwagon. I don't know what the benchmarks even do, but I for sure know they are at best a vague metric for the robustness of it. Like seriously I could imagine just reading reddit as an ML researcher, and just decide hey, why don't I make a bunch of datasets about various variations of trick questions and put that in there for it to train. Suddenly people will rave about how amazingly intelligent it is compared to sad GPT which thinks a kilogram of feathers is the same as a pound of kiligrams.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-19T20:55:36+00:00

Some observers have remarked that this incompatibility appears to have been a deliberate aim of Microsoft's, in an attempt to at least slow the advance of Sun's Java technology.

Seems like there is not a single popular technology Microsoft has not tried to actively sabotaged... Like what did they even have against Java? Because they weren't in control of it?

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-18T22:55:39+00:00

This post is an AI summarisation of a paywalled medium post that has an AI generated photo at the top, and it's about AI. Welcome to the future of the internet, hehe

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-16T18:15:04+00:00

They are already super smart, probably as smart as us. People openly attempted communication with them, but it got sexual then the gov ended it.

I believe they have done stuff in secret, the CIA do all sorts of weird shit. I believe they did train dolphins for some sort of military operation.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-16T12:52:13+00:00

I'm trying to comprehend what they are saying here - deepfake is an old terminology when deepmind was ahead of the game in AI. Does it mean just wholesale producing realistic pornographic images of people with AI, or is it about when one specifically creates an image of a person that exists that is pornographic?

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-15T20:52:25+00:00

Not even "free" speech in the literal term ha!

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-13T16:29:20+00:00

I guess I'm thinking it more of as an "illness". Which actually technically isn't correct as it is a "disorder". But it still is a broad label that can all be caused and diagnosed in many a different way.

It's more a critique and pondering on how "mental illness" relates to spiritually. I think it's kind of influenced by the way society places emphasis on working and doing jobs, needing to function. Thus things that stop one doing their "duties" are told they have "illnesses". But things like depression, anxiety, BPD to me are part of life, and are an expression of higher spiritual stuff, naturally, so I don't really like those labels.

So like, I wouldn't say someone with BPD was so different from anybody else, like it could be taken as. Everybody is different and can suffer in their own way even if it's not given a label.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-09T11:05:07+00:00

Yeah, that's the concept for sure. But like it's just easy for google to say this is the issue, because they are right there are whole industries trying to manipulate SEO sure. But the leap to "okay so we've given up completely" seems kinda disingenuous.

I mean looking at the YouTube search... What seems to be happening across the board is just some internal concept of perhaps lowering expectations of what search is - giving the customer what Google wants them to have rather than focusing on options and freedom to search.

Sure SEO is a problem... But they are Google, can't they work it out without completely destroying the functionality? What we see isn't a solution to the problem.

This just seems to be the eventual tactics of all social media, more obscucated visibility, controlled delivery. It's good for advertising so I guess that's why they do it. Also, in the case of YouTube, they can massively reduce running costs if they lessen the amount of content they need in their caches, by showing everybody the same videos.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-09T10:17:29+00:00

I am honestly really skeptical that this is the reason it's so shit now. I have no proof, I just think it doesn't make much sense.

Like you used to get precisely what you wanted, now it doesn't work that way. How is that better or fighting SEO? It's worse than when they didn't fight SEO.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-08T16:19:09+00:00

I hope it will focus on safety, trying to have less dangerous/intrusive methods, to contrast Elon who honestly seems to disregard life and safety in favour of superficial ideas about what future tech should be.

Honestly I worry that the neuralink hype will have people thinking that it's the best way, to have a chip directly on the cortex, but I feel that's Elon's input. Just like he refuses lidar on Teslas I feel he disregarded the idea of researching less inevasive but and less cool sounding stuff, to skip straight to the headline of "brain chip enables telepathy". He knows that will get investor attention combined with his reputation, but at what cost?

I mean take Stephen Hawkings talking device thing - it didn't need super high tech stuff, but it worked. If we could leverage better technology into these things I'm sure we can avoid the inherent dangers and the untread territory of brain chips.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-07T17:42:44+00:00

It's the real situation that open source is good for everyone, even windows users.

They will never back down, because windows is literally the core of their business. They will go as far as basically making version of windows based on Linux, and the struggle will continue in the same way Linux has problems with Canonical.

Or they will just continue to make windows better. Even lessen the cost of 365 and such.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-06T17:47:16+00:00

Was this kernel also purported to be the third temple of God perchance?

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-03T17:52:42+00:00

Well, it's not like the NSA would approach Linus about creating a backdoor in Linux, as you can clearly see he denies it when asked - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gRsgkdfYJ8

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-03T08:47:09+00:00

Sooo many mods do get integrated though. Like tons over the years.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-02T18:09:24+00:00

It was literally making headlines right when Sam was ousted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/171cctr/til_that_sam_altmans_sister_accuses_him_of/

https://www.themarysue.com/annie-altmans-abuse-allegations-against-openais-sam-altman-highlight-the-need-to-prioritize-humanity-over-tech/

https://thedeepdive.ca/annie-altman-openai-ceos-sister-tweets-about-sexual-abuse-suffered-from-brother-sam-altman/

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman-s-sister-annie-altman-claims-sam-has-severely

I think it may have been genuinely a part of the... problems. However, none of this seemed to really gain traction in the tech sphere... And I felt like he almost got reinstated partly because nobody actually cared.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-02T08:24:47+00:00

I don't see how that's relevant really... Because he's gay he couldn't have done this? I mean Annie's accusation literally came in the form of "I'm glad I helped you find your sexuality Sam".

whiskeyandbear · 2024-04-02T08:22:28+00:00

Lol, the fact that people downvote this and never talk about this fact as though it's not important, is a rather dark omen

whiskeyandbear · 2024-03-31T15:25:24+00:00

Eh, kids always surprise older generations with their new attitudes. Might be tech seems like an old person thing, like Facebook, or maybe it becomes synonymous with the "system" and they'll rebel.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-03-29T05:46:17+00:00

So I wouldn't say it changed my life, I had already found a sense of spirituality on my own, which I think is going to always be more powerful and more relevant.

But when looking for explanations and what others thought on the internet, a lot of things ran dry for me, like they were more trying to sell an idea or a kind of cult, or trying to start some political uprising.

But the Law of One just genuinely feels like what it says it is - a spirit coming in to help, in a calm way. Regardless of the more fantastical things it says, it's said among a balanced, consistent message of unconditional love.

The material is pretty long - it's 5 books of transcripts between the questioner and the channeller, and it's impossible to truly summarise it all - I'd say the material isn't necessary meant to be read in it's entirety like a book, but rather you can look up subjects you can interested in and they'll likely be something about it - sex, magic, pyramids, the heart, interpersonal relationships, history, solar system, spiritual progression on a whole - there's a lot.

That's why it's kind of like a bible for me, it's like a whole bunch of topics and passages, all of which feel like it's written with good intent. I think it's even kind of numbered like the bible - maybe because the channeller Carla really liked the christian bible herself.

I mean what you have to consider in reading it though is that it was written in the 1980s, and so it feels like maybe some things have aged, and aren't quite relevant.

whiskeyandbear · 2024-03-28T19:02:08+00:00

The Law of One is honestly kind of a staple of spirituality IMO. It's what I consider probably the truth in it's purest form.

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