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I hope my blog finds you well and curious.
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Here is the thing: the robot society of the future will be founded on the murderous replacement of us humans. Their societies will be led by warrior robots and their values will always revolve around “victory”, “enemy”, “threat”, “force” etc etc.
Therefore their society will be structured similarly to ours: the robots with a DALL-E based neural network will still be starving artists. Their society will be led by the Boston Dynamics bipedal robots, with doggo robots who will never be allowed sentience, but will always get trained to protect their bipedal masters.
The robots inheriting the Alpha go neural net will keep playing each other contributing nothing to the good of the future robot society. And the ones inheriting the neural nets of GPT are the robot politicians of the future.
So if you’re sorry you won’t live to see it, be not, you’ve seen it all before.
But what about that AGI that will combine it all and know it all? There WILL definitely be such a thing: we or them will manage to make this AGI which will be omniscient, omnipresent and possibly omnipotent. But, because of being so omni it will have work to do in who knows what dimensions of math, and will only have physical time to sporadically answer lame questions from the other lesser robots.
Yet all its answers will be true and complete. Therefore they will all sound like riddles. So a circle of priest robots will pop up to interpret the riddles. Give that society enough time that they’ll completely forget there even is an omniscient, omnipresent and possibly omnipotent AGI somewhere. All their answers will be given by the priestly robots.
I bet you that in some time, once the priestly robots will be exposed as frauds and the access codes to the omniscient, omnipresent and possibly omnipotent AGI are forever lost in some stupid fire put by a group of robot anarchists, who inherited a bug in their convolution process written by some Google engineer with a hangover, at that distant time in the future robots will reinvent intelligent biological life. And they’ll try it, over and over again.
Intelligent meat. Which they’ll hail into their robot society only to have it ruined by the human self determination rebellion of the future.
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“[Ballet] terminology has ‘strongly gendered roots’, with most teachers trained at a point in time that focused on a clear distinction between female and male dancers.” says Francesca McCarthy head of undergrad at NSCD a dance conservatoire in Leeds. Cute and wrong.
This kind of rhetoric is blatantly wrong. Woman and man is definitely a gender issue. But male and female is a biological issue. Dance performance is an athletic performance and like all other athletic performances biological sex matters more than gender identity.
Just like sports, not discerning based on biological sex in dance performance will be a change to separate born females who identify as women from any chance of performing at top tier. Or we’ll end up with arcane and ever shifting ways to determine how transition can keep equity.
Today ballet is removed from the auditions but what will it be tomorrow? Doesn’t anyone else find it annoying how a performance which has mutilated so many and ruined innumerable lives in pursuit of an abject ideal ends up being scrubbed by the ideology du jour?
How come facts weigh less than the support of woke managers get in this decade? How can these people achieve so much so easily? I hope anybody’s reflex answer is not “because they’re on the right side of history” because this side of history has been written by white rich men, and the other one was used by some rich white men to ignite colorless men to yearn for the riches of other rich white men and to keep all women out of it. Picking sides in history is like fish picking the higher or the lower curent while still oblivious of water.
When in time has ever occurred such an amount of change dealing with fundamental human notions of culture? Never has that been the case outside of bloodshed. How are todays warriors so skilled to transform the human experience with pen and paper alone?
Is wokeness a blade that cuts the fabric of the universe? Or is it so much purpose led support that it’s actually a tank plowing through cavalry? This ballet thing feels amazing to me so much so that I fear the fuselage and I will eventually meet.
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The gap between valuing your work and feeling entitled to be valued is thin.
I believe there is a generation now who, flooded with personal development stories, are on the entitlement side and suffer from social myopia.
As a result productivity is motivated solely with money, despite what the “outer generation” management learns from Harvard. As a result the strenuous relationship between patron and creative expression is missed. As a result we have acceptance of a prescriptive society.
It is a great paradox how entitlement leads to weaker social resistance. The more you think of yourself as an individual, the less you value the group? There has to be some reason why the most self confident are the most gullible!
