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Jun 16, 2023·edited Jun 16, 2023Author

To be abundantly clear I am vehemently opposed to any regulation of AI and LLMs right now, and I will cover more of that soon, the potential uses both good and bad of AI on synthetic biology. If the West regulates AI, we lose (The EU is outright killing itself by absurd regulation of AI and LLMs right now).

To understand my opposition on AI regulation, you must understand and read a lot of my SARS-CoV-2 substacks. We will NEED AI to do the "intellectual heavy lifting" in the next years alone, don't want to imagine the next 3 decades.

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I'd also point out that a lot of AI regulation is an efficient crow-bar to start outlawing general-purpose computing as a whole.

Encryption was defended on speech grounds, and so should any form of computing.

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I'm out of my depth here, but why do we need AI to do the 'intellectual heavy lifting', particularly when it 'hallucinates' and can spit back misleading and incorrect garbage it made up?

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What Gabriel said. In a simple way, generative AI and AI tools will only get better, for specific tasks, trained in specific data, they already surpass experts in both time and "skill". For the average person, it needs a lot of tweaking so you get what you ask for with just one "question" (prompt).

To the first question, because of COVID. We will experience a significant drop in IQ, cognitive skills globally but especially in the West. Jabs made everything worse. Unless we want to become vassals to the Chinese, we need competitive AI too.

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It is fascinating but if we're to experience a general cognitive decline would those lower IQs even know how to manipulate the AI to beneficial effect? My only experience has been with Sudowrite and I was not impressed (very dodgy scene spewed out after my innocuous prompt which the company put down to the fact that it sometimes 'hallucinates'!)

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Yes it will help people with lower IQ with their tasks and jobs. Society as a whole would benefit largely from functional AIs that don't need complicated prompting, etc.

We need both tech and economic advantage so we can help people that will need. There is a whole side of COVID/jabs and cascade effects I refuse to write about, but it is really significant long -term.

Generative AI as they are right now need a lot of tweaking and input from the user to get what the user wants depending on the task.

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And now I want to know about the effects you refuse to write about! You can't leave me hanging like that.

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Babies/children stuff. You can put 2 and 2 together from all I wrote about. There is a little more to it, but again, I refuse to write about it (doesn't mean I don't research it).

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Good question! Text-generation AI tools hallucinate because the problem space is immense. As in, with limitless options (all posible human language) it becomes computationally expensive to find the right answer.

If you can narrowly define the problem, it can be very effective. Machine learning techniques are very useful for finding solutions within a defined problem space. For example, AI tools that transcribe audio can do it with remarkable accuracy and speed, this is precisely because the problem is narrow and defined. It doesn't matter what the speaker is saying, but that it can be turned into text.

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Jun 16, 2023Liked by Moriarty

My (simplified) understanding of why you are vehemently  opposed to any regulation of AI and LLMs is to give "everyone" as much as possible equal access/chances so that both sides explore its capacities and engage with its full potential/innovation etc.As we still need to develop it & do not understand how to monitor it, by regulating it we will be limiting its potential to deep state validated purposes mostly (which is not good for our survival)? Correct? In a way, the same applies to politics. Contraintuitive as it may be, anarchy seems to be more humane than current Deep State ruling elite autocracy we live in now. It is very unlikely that people around the world would engage in atrocities we are forced to be part of  currently. Just saying...

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Correct. Plus Western adversaries will care not about how virtuous or how safe our AIs are, they will push their models to the limit of their computing and weaponize it. We need functional, advanced AI to stand a chance against AI-aided anything.

Can you imagine a AI-enabled virus can do to the infrastructure of a country? Banking system.

Plus the whole discovery side of things, since AI helps with it and advancing science.

Plus your first assessment is correct. I want everyone to have a chance to be their best. To be able to create.

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Jun 16, 2023Liked by Moriarty

Yes you have been clear about that in the past as well. I should have worded my comment better (but was in a hurry and did not check it). Western adversaries would prioritize the weaponization aspect/purposes. I need to read more about AI. Oh, about your twitter comment regarding your country and comments about journalists......I did not understand it. It is ok not to explain ...no pressure. I am just sharing some feedback (mine) in case that you are interested how clear the message is. (hope you do not mind). Enjoy your weekend and stay safe on those hiking trips (snakes might be out). Almost forgot, regarding diabetic coma, mama's puddings and all things sweet...you do know you can make (keto) pudding by using konjac powder? Try it.

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About that tweet it is better to have that conversation via email. I have VERY strong opinions about the people here, and all of them negative opinions lol.

I seldom hike, it is not a every weekend thing (expensive even when I do it cheap =P and need to save for a new phone).

Yes I do know, I remember your tweet about it, but I eat that pudding once every 6 months, this time (twice within a short period) was a very rare occasion because a family member who resides overseas came to visit.

About AI, there are endless sources to read about now, from my perspective I would use the search function here on Substack and search for "The Future of War" to understand my point a little.

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Thank you so much for your enlightening answer and a great suggestion. Please always feel free to reach out directly. Your opinions are intriguing.

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Yeah well, our Gov is sold out to the satanic WEF globalists...and the plan is to let the NWO take down the west, while our "leaders" sail off into the NWO sunset with their positions, power and spoils. In my estimation, the primary cyber war we're experiencing now is an architected globalist plan for their "main event", to push the next phase of their new control grid/system. All hidden with fake narratives about who's doing it. It's our own NWO sold out government, waging war against it's citizens.

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Analogy-The Chinese invented gunpowder, guns followed. https://youtu.be/ykhhmZ5XTHk

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