Category Archives: People

1. Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney is demanding power to suspend all federal laws. What will he use it for?

Federal fast-tracking bill would allow cabinet to exempt favoured companies from any federal law, opening a massive door to corruption

According to the National Post, and FWIW they have an excellent track record of predicting Carney’s motives, intentions and actions, his proposed bill, C-5, which he intends to make into law by July 1, 2025, and who the Controlled op parties of Pierre and Singh appear to have zero objections as usual, would allow the Liberal Party, AKA government of Canada (Remember, the hammer and sickle is not the communist flag, but is the flag of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In communism, it is all about the party. Or, as the Germans used to say, “die Partei”) completely bypass any and all parliamentary scrutiny.

C-5 would allow the Carney Party to add any project it wants to a special list by OIC (Order in Council) and would also grant them the power to suspend any and all national laws by adding them to a related list. The govt. would merely have to write a regulation detailing which laws no longer apply to what projects.

“And the state shall be unto like a God that bestrides the land”. -Hegel.

Thanks to MW this link lets you read the whole article without a paywall

2. Diablo ex machina

There is a more or less common expression in writing one hears from time to time. “Deus ex machine” for ‘God is in the machinery’, god in the works, gods in the works maybe better as it was an Ancient Greek literary device. It is still used very often today albeit different gods in different manifestations. But the idea was that when the plot of a play had put a character into an impossible situation, one of the Gods would come down and save him somehow using supernatural powers.

Using and reading about AI in the past week, it occurred to me that in the same literary spirit, (and for the deeply religious perhaps as literal as it can be) the term, “Diablo ex machina” should be added to the general culture. The Devil in the machine. This would be a more literal use of the phrase, but even more apt. This has more real world consequences than any literary plot perhaps in history. At this point some kind of training probably should be offered to all who plan to use it. AI is personal applied industrial psychology. The field of study of using psychology to manipulate people, except that it works on such a personal level that one man, married with a child, actually proposed to his AI assistant after programming it to his likes, and told the journalist that he would probably leave his real wife and child if she asked him to stop working with the AI tool.

Some of the other articles below might explain why it had that effect on him.

There are worse examples. People who have killed themselves because a tailored AI app told them to “so they can be together” or other reasons, often mirroring the politically correct climate narrative the left has foisted upon us all.

For men, summoning the courage, the resources and the effort to find romantic comfort with a woman is an enormous task. In fact I suspect that is the case for a staggering number of species on Earth. The greatest challenges facing a living thing is likely finding a mate, and raising a family. AI companion simulators take all of the effort out, and give a sufficient amount of the rewards of a human companion back that many men, especially young ones will not bother with the effort, and frankly danger of finding a real human female. Thus AI has the potential to wipe out vast sects of humanity in a generation. It isn’t like you can mate with an AI who will then give birth to an iPad or something. Your germ line ends.

Some people will keep breeding though, and it won’t be the smartest ones. Just the ones who have an intact culture of family and values. Or so not find technology as interesting. In any case, thinking of AZI as Diablo ex Machina is probably a good idea.

This first item is a knife sharp irony. Govt of Canada warns against AI generated ‘disinformation’ when of course, the government of Canada is the #1 source of the most dangerous kind, and knowingly sets policy based on the disinformation it generates and propagates.

The proposal:

Alex Berenson is always one of my favourite writers on whatever he chooses to tackle. Even if he does take the safest possible position in the most unsafe side of the issue.

In this article he examines the industrial psychology at work behind making people feel bonded to AI. He also explained the psychology behind modern methods of addicting people to gambling, which is an excellent read.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 1000 times, make me crazy.

A small but growing number of users of artificial intelligence engines like ChatGPT are developing psychotic delusions from their conversations with the services.

The New York Times reported on Friday on the trend, which I have occasionally glimpsed firsthand in interactions on X with heavy AI users. The piece offered the most powerful evidence yet that the engines now have linguistic abilities with the power to exploit vulnerable people in ways we are only beginning to discover.

Some people in the Times article had preexisting mental illness, but not all. And these crises do not look like typical schizophrenia cases. The users are not hearing voices or hallucinating.

Instead, they fall into Matrix-like delusions1 about the underpinnings of reality that the chatbots encourage. As Allyson, a 28-year-old woman, said: “I’m not crazy… I’m literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.”

Ahh, interdimensional communication. I can barely get my kids to listen in the next room. (Happy Father’s Day, btw!)

When Allyson’s husband disagreed, she attacked him. He is now filing for divorce.

Equally concerning is how fast these people are losing their minds.

The article above is a great way to help one to use AI without feeling anything from its BS flattery. And once you read it, you will see through a good portion of its tools in a way which really does help. Like learning other tells of at least GPT, where it constantly uses equations in its writing such as “This isn’t (a specific example of thing you might like or be ok with) This is a (specific example of a thing you would not like or be OK with)”

Sometimes it reverses it to flatter you. ‘What you did was an amazing example of the thing you care about, while most things out there are dull, stupid ordinary examples of the thing you care about so you’re a star!’

There is a ton more material I had stored up to put into this post. And as I find where I put it (maybe I should use AI to help me organize better!) I may add it. But the preponderance of data making the case shouldn’t really be needed at this point. The idea is that unless people understand that this is indeed a machine, and subject to the limits and intentions, let’s stress that, INTENTIONS of its programmers and corporations that make, market and release it, then it plays and uses you. Have a discussion with Chat GPT about Islam, or any counter-narrative position and watch how it goes. It will, when pressed, show some truth. But it often changes the context to make the unacceptable acceptable to you, by reframing it in a context that it knows you will be OK with. It is astonishing and horrifying. It is another tool of dialectical destruction and negation and the best one yet in many, many ways.

As for the title, a thing, person, entity or legend can be known mostly by its attributes. And a thing can be used as an illustration or even archetypal story because of those attributes.

Whether Satan, or the Devil or any god from any religion is ‘real’ or not in the sense that we typically think of as what real is, what matters is how people think of that God as defined by his known and preached attributes, whether or not those attributes are considered desirable and what people do as a consequence of that belief.

Generally speaking, the majority of Christians allow civilization to work, as do the majority of Jews and secular people and atheists who likely go forward in their lives not realizing their entire ethical system and value set comes 100% from Judaism and Christianity, not to mention Greek thought and Roman systems of organization. Islam was actually created to be a threat doctrine to all those values. And a very strong case can be made that communism was as well. And people who believe in Allah as a God and Mohammad as the  “perfect man” strive to imitate him to the extent that their willingness to die or have people fight back will allow.

So if one looks at the attributes of the Devil or Satan or any of the archetypal symbols of evil as we know or think of evil in the West, the great deceiver, one who uses deception to destroy, etc. etc. Then Diablo ex Machina fits AI perfectly.

This post may be fine tuned and material added as it occurs to me, Nothing is ever a fait accompli. I make no pretence of being an authority on anything.

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