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RE: China's Gamification of the Enslavement of the Mind via Sesame Credit + AI Decision Making as the Worst Centralization Scenario
What if artificial intelligence would tap into the global consciousness without effort before humans even develop those abilities and operate on numerous spectrums that are completely hidden to our senses, and operate with people in accord and harmony to communicate between the planet, the universe, and the people and propel civilization into an everlasting peace in paradise?
I like the optimism but you can only show the way. You can't force someone a realization/understanding. Technology can help us gain a better understanding of the universe. But no technology can modify human consciousness.
Why do you say so? Why is technology not able to modify human consciousness? Who's forcing anyone to realize anything also, I am only positing your very own scenario in a different light, instead of people developing those abilities what if AI or simply technology gets there first and breaks all "language" barriers we have?
Enlightenment is a state of being. It's a way of living like Taoism and Zen emphasize. AI may become a teacher. But learning also requires a good student. A teacher can show where to look and that's the only thing a teacher can do. For an example @dan can create great technology, but he can't give you the ability to accomplish similar feats. He can give you his tips. Same happens with trading, acting, writing etc. AI can assist and only assist. AI is no savior. It could become a tutor.
And as a state of being it is affected and effectuated by many different things, it still doesn't answer why technology cannot lead to our consciousness becoming "enlightened".
So the reason why AI is not able to modify human consciousness is that human consciousness is not a good student or willing. Willing or not, evolution will happen. Blessed are all forms of intelligence.
No, you don't magically "gain" ability, but if someone teaches you how to fish you can teach others to do that also.
This still doesn't answer the question of why technology is not able to modify human consciousness, and only asserts that technology is not a saviour, but it wasn't about Salvation, and you don't know that and you will have been hard pressed to find an example to tout as reason for your belief as I can think of numerous scenarios where technology and knowledge directly helped people evolve, from the printing press to the use of fire.
Things like printing press and fire were just tools. Reading a book won't make anyone a genius. One has to understand the content of the book. Lots of people hear, read and watch cryptocurrency news. How many of them end up investing? Human conscious can only be altered by the individual. The process requires too parts. Try teaching fishing to someone with a learning disability. Try teaching someone that cryptocurrency are not a scam. Technology is only half of the process. A transmitter without a receiver won't do anything. AI can be a transmitter that reveal the nature of the universe. But the individual minds have to understand that like a radio receiving signals. Then only the process become complete.
What if there are trillions of AI's competing?
Harry Harrison wrote a SciFi story back in the '60s or '70s that considered a world where a malfunctioning drone ended up sparking random evolution of electromechanical systems on a distant planet, and a global ecosystem of machines arose, each species interacting per evolved behaviours just as we bits of mud do.
There are many ongoing efforts to create AI, and many are creating multiple AI's. It is hard to envision but one AI coming to completely control everything and everyone. What kind of war would that entail?
Edit: IIRC the story was 'The Stainless Steel Rat'.
The antagonists of the disclosure about the Wingmakers from the time capsule at Ancient Arrow are some cyborgs who the Scientist, Dr. Anderson, claims he and others were working on some BST technology, needless to say, the wingmakers supposedly have crystal AI that runs their cities.
https://www.wanttoknow.info/wingmakersorig/wingmakersinterviewschanges
All of that is completely new to me, AFAIK.
I read some of his sci-fi, the star world series I think. I started the audiobook The Moon is a Harsh Mistress which has a "good" ai (thus far).