RE: The World Isn’t Ending, It’s Reorganizing
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Congratulations on the kitchen!
I listened to the tiktok only because I respect you and you recommended it. I don't listen to conversations with AI. Talking with AI about this issue seems naive. Why would AI give us the lowdown on how to defeat it? That doesn't make sense.
As for its conclusion that the world didn't end but simply reorganized after the fall of Constantinople: The world did end for the 50,000 people who lived there. The ones who weren't killed (the world ends for an individual, certainly, with death)were enslaved. They were sent elsewhere. The Ottomans depopulated the city so that it could be repopulated with followers of Islam.
What do we mean when we say the world ends? Does that mean, blow up the planet, or does it mean our world ends?
Understandably that machine has no insight in what it means to be human. I wouldn't ask a machine about my humanity :)))
Thank you! It's been a process to get there but we're very happy with it. It's nice to have our kitchen back.
The one particular kernel I walked away with from that video is be careful how much you outsource to and rely on AI because you surrender pieces of yourself in the process. It surprised me that AI gave him that advice. We're already seeing cognitive decline in people who lean on AI too heavily so I thought it was interesting that ChatGPT told him how to "resist" it.
I took "the end of the world" as metaphorical, more like a general pessimistic feeling amongst the masses. I see the doom and gloom, the fear, the ill-defined edginess sweeping across our society. I think as more jobs are outsourced to AI and robotics this will intensify. We're at a point now where it's difficult to even envision what this next phase of humanity will look like. I'm working on a short story now about how when all human workers are replaced and UBI is put in place how people will have to incorporate things other than work into their lives to give them meaning.
I think you can see by my response that I'm not outsourcing :)) I can't imagine turning over control of my thoughts or actions to anyone, let alone an intelligence that is an amalgam of many intelligences. At this point, AI is a synthesis of what is commonly believed and known. It is, in a way, the common denominator. How could I learn from such a point of view? AI digests and assesses what all people, and all sources, 'know'. Then it comes up with 'wisdom' to help guide our actions. I don't call that wisdom. It's like a sophisticated soap opera writer. Today, anyway. AI may get more 'intelligent'. Probably will.
An interesting discussion, very, very important.