27 May

Independent of all the Terminator-driven angst about AI, it’s taking over much of our culture at an astronomical speed. Here a doctor describes using it, because it provided so much better healthcare than their own doctor. AI may be saving our civilisation, in real time, every day. Rescuing it from social media, by pulling people out of the rivalries there over social status, where they absorb mountains of bullshit information every day. The information is just used as fuel for the status rivalries. AI sits ‘above’ those rivalries. People go to it for help, individually, outside the peer pressure of the daily fights for status. Sociality is violence, something we refuse to understand. AI is fundamental to breaking our addiction to sociality. It’s a new type of semi-transcendent entity, to rescue us from ourselves. If you wanted to be Biblical and Christian about it, it’s literally like the second coming. Not an analogy, I’ll post more about that.