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>I consider AI tainted and every thought filtered through it as tainted. Code made by it is tainted. Let this be my “irrational” abstinence from AI.
>Last year, when a made a video talking about the AI craze, I flippantly referred to it as “demonic” with a somewhat jocular smirk. I only take back the jocular smirk. I will abstain from AI as if it were morally tainted or demonic.
>And, you know I hate to make one of these asides despite the many atheists who read and watch me, but please do me the pleasure and ask yourself: Suppose you were an evil incorporeal being that had some ability to influence matter, but wanted to conceal yourself—what would be the best way to influence people without being detected as breaking the normal chain of physical causality? Certainly the ideal would be a kind of technology which is nearly entirely unauditable (not like a typical computer program), but nonetheless capable of imposing complex ideas and thoughts to humans. LLMs/AI are the first and best example of such technology.
>Last year, when a made a video talking about the AI craze, I flippantly referred to it as “demonic” with a somewhat jocular smirk. I only take back the jocular smirk. I will abstain from AI as if it were morally tainted or demonic.
>And, you know I hate to make one of these asides despite the many atheists who read and watch me, but please do me the pleasure and ask yourself: Suppose you were an evil incorporeal being that had some ability to influence matter, but wanted to conceal yourself—what would be the best way to influence people without being detected as breaking the normal chain of physical causality? Certainly the ideal would be a kind of technology which is nearly entirely unauditable (not like a typical computer program), but nonetheless capable of imposing complex ideas and thoughts to humans. LLMs/AI are the first and best example of such technology.
