A recent video was shared where you see Will Wilson, co-founder of Antithesis, an AI contractor for Palantir say: “It’s very possible that we’re entering a world where very soon any kind of cognitive labor, any kind of reason, any kind of thought… It’ll be a thing that weirdos do.”
Will Wilson is not wrong and he frames a context for a discussion that needs to happen. Beyond the intellectual analysis of the problem he is outlining, is the disconnect away from God that also permeates the conversation. What exactly is it that makes us human?
ICYMI – Will Wilson, co-founder of Antithesis, an AI contractor for Palantir: “It’s very possible that we’re entering a world where very soon any kind of cognitive labor, any kind of reason, any kind of thought… It’ll be a thing that weirdos do.” pic.twitter.com/inedhfaYSL
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 26, 2025
This issue is not coming, it’s very much here and current. There is a reason why CTH maintains the position that AI arguments should not be engaged as assists or used in discussion of our topics.
A reminder, our discussing this race to the future and who was creating it was in 2011. Fourteen years ago, we first broached the topic. At the time of our first discussion in 2011 we theorized we would approach the point of no return in approximately 20 years. We are two-thirds of the way through the timeline.
The conversation continues….
AI is an imperfection amplification of it’s imperfect human programmers.
The disaster happens when the imperfections of the human programmers overwhelm Our earthly world.
It’s a good thing Joe got all those coal miners to code 😉
I am proud to be a Commonsense Caveman. That will be the name of my podcast..
Or imported 3rd worlders with HI-B’s.
Never heard of that show. But that clip is just brilliant.
“From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made” – Immanuel Kant
The contemporary philospher Isaiah Berln wrote a wonderful book of essays “The Crooked Timber of Humanity”. Although dated 1991, its contents are timely. It’s still in print. Amazon has it in harbound and paperback.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it.
“I the Lord search the heart
and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
according to what their deeds deserve.
Jeremiah 17: 9-11
A nice way to say “garbage in garbage out”
But spot on, as always 👍👍
This is so true, my wife and I tried asking copilot to declare Jesus as the Son of the one true God. It will not do it in an absolute fashion. It will never do it because of who wrote it, garbage in and garbage out.
If I can’t trust someone to watch one of my cats they don’t get access to my mind, period.
GIGO…
Well they have definitely have hit the Liberal Loons already, they have no reasoning and thought.
” What exactly is it that makes us human?”
To be is to do – Voltaire
To do is to be – Descartes
Do be do be do- Frank Sinatra
“Scooby dooby DOOoooo!” – Scooby
I can only imagine what makes us human is being a very big disappointment to God.
Actually what makes is human is God’s design. He is not disappointed with His design because it is perfect.
What disappoints our Father-Creator is HOW we use the His perfect design… which includes volition.
Yet He still chooses to unconditionally love us through His Grace in giving us the option to choose an eternal spiritual existence via His Son’s sacrifice and spiritual work on the cross 2,000 years ago.
We are His design… and when He threw in “free will” we were all given the opportunity to be “good, bad, or ugly” or a little of all of those… The real test is how we develop our faith in Him,:and how we adhere to the BIBLE. (/Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth)
It is our choice… individually and collectively….
I Pray we all make the right choice 🙏🙏
I disagree. I think we are an imperfect design and that is what makes us human. Humans can sporadically decide to do something where AI cannot. The often randomness of our thoughts and actions define our humanity. We can take a path that is chosen on a whim. Didn’t Adam eat the forbidden fruit, proving we are not perfect?
In Neal Asher’s Sci-Fi where AI rules, humans are valuable because of our ability to put our finger in the air and go. It is an interesting concept given all the doom and gloom discussion of AI and our impending demise.
Well Mike I guess that’s the difference between forming one’s opinions from the Bible versus sci-fi books.
Yes Adam used his God-given volition to choose to believe Eve’s insistence that the Serpents assertions were true. That points to bad choice, not a bad design.
The best designed automobile can still cause a lot of problems and fall apart or worse if it’s not used and maintained the way the design engineers intended.
You assume and you know what that makes you. Adam made a choice yes, and if he were created perfectly there would have been no need to forbid eating of the fruit. Perfection would not need rules.
My opinions of imperfection come from 12 years of catholic school where it was taught we are sinners, therefore imperfect. If you disagree with that, you disagree with years of the catholic faiths teaching.
Not sure you realize but you reinforce my imperfection opinion with your auto analogy. If the auto were perfect it would never fall apart nor need maintenance or cause any problems. Perfection is defined in the engineering field as zero defects. Maybe you didn’t know that.
Yes. The message of the cross isn’t complicated.
Amen
Yaba daba do! – prehistoric blue collar Fred Flintstone
“Do Lord, oh do Lord, oh do remember me” — Gospel chorus
👌 😎
The God given gift of Free Will requires the God given gift of Cognition.
To surrender your human Cognition to a machine labeled AI is to bow before a human created IDOL.
In my experience, the tech guys tend to way, way overestimate the impact of, and desire for, the things they create. They live in a world of theory and abstract concepts and don’t really understand human nature. So while they do some amazing things, they don’t usually have the level of impact they’re expecting.
So far, GenAI isn’t delivering on the things they’ve promised just for that. And sure, you might get parts of the worldwide population to go along with your crazy ideas about pods and bugs and UBI and nobody ever working, but it’s not sustainable. Any society like that will be like a speedrun through the Mouse Utopia, and then when it inevitably collapses, the rest of the world that hasn’t gone nuts will simply keep doing what they’ve always been doing.
They might end up destroying Western civilization. But they aren’t going to wipe out humanity.
They might end up destroying Western civilization?
You must be kidding!
Muslims will take care of that.
Muslims and Hindus
I’ve always wondered if the tech guys were weirdos from the start and gravitated to screen work, or constantly interfacing with a computer screen over time made them weirdos.
No, they’ve always been a strange lot. Maybe not always, but at least since 1975 when I was in the industry.
It was very disconcerting to hear Carlson’s interview of Sam Altman. When Carlson asked him about his spirituality he gives two disparate answers. One, he’s a non-practicing biological Jew who doesn’t believe in God per se but accepts that there may be something out there far grander than us, perhaps a rule of the universe or something. And two, he’s a nerd.
What was so disconcerting was that his view of adding any kind of morality to the basic mechanical heart of AI would for example — at least in the US — place a very high value on human life, and within the greater world, would be tailored to accept or integrate the various religious and cultural values that predominate in various cultures.
The problem with this is that values are often contradictory with each other, even so far as the value various religions or cultures place on human life. And whatever value system Altman finally chooses will have to be one single universal system since everyone will be cross connected with the internet.
This will only lead to a chaotic kaleidoscope of conflicting values, which in the end will be meaningless.
Moreover is shows that this nerd knows nothing about, and has no concern for, any particular cogent, internally consistent value system.
How ’bout we just eliminate AI?
The problem with such insidious, overarching technology is that it will reach into every facet of human life.
And the West is so dependent upon technology that to place such a soulless structure into place is to risk, or likely, will guarantee, our total destruction.
Food, fuel, utilities are so dependent upon digital controls that it would be utter chaos, with rioting hungry people and others freezing in their houses in northern climes.
Yeah, kinda proves my point.
And ICYMI, SD commented on this as it does not appear it got much notice, based on the current numbers on nitter.
@TheLastRefuge2
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Replying to @disclosetv
EXAMPLE: When the cell towers fall, and the electricity grid stops, and the internet is no longer an option in the aftermath of a hurricane, you quickly discover who is cognitively dependent and who has retained cognitive independence. It might alarm you.
James Burke connections playlist:
Even tho this happened on November 9th 1965 @ 5:16:11 PM, it is still very relevant in this day and age.
Episode 1 is about the NYC / NE coast power outage & what would happen if/when the power goes out.
Scenarios about what you (& everyone else) think you can do once the power goes out is very telling.
It would definitely be much worse today.
AI…to date…appears to be a really fast agglomeration of news, opinions and articles gleaned from the internet of things, especially from Wikipedia (that rather biased source).
I think we all have found incorrect results at the top of the search engine. And if not incorrect, definitely skewed.
I prefer books, actual physical books which I have collected over 70 years. They will be invaluable, one day. They are invaluable, today.
Soulless tech+soulless Big Government = Human Destruction.
Human Destruction IS the End Game.
The engineer behind this, Satan, DOES understand human nature.
He should.
He has been busy corrupting it for millennia.
However, Satan is clueless when it comes to understanding God.
Edward Dowd, a man I follow and have great respect for states the AI bubble isn’t what we think & is about to pop.
Re Read Brave New World
This is very much about Good vs. Evil, a battle which has been brewing for Generations.
NOW is the time to engage our gifts of discernment if we haven’t already done so and put on the Full Armor of God.
Pray unceasingly, God knows, sees and hears all 🙏🏼🕊️🙏🏼
“...a battle which has been brewing for Generations.”
…brewing / ongoing since Adam & Eve fell for the Serpent’s’ lies….
Ask the Blessed Mother, Patroness of our Nation, to be a prayer partner. We should ask her to pray for repentance and revival.
There is One mediator between God and man, and that is Jesus Christ. Pray to God in Jesus’ name and you will be heard.
Amen.
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Perhaps I can convince my famly members to pray to Saint Jesus!
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God, His word, and all Christians are the enemy. Globalists think they are god. They WANT to be god. But there’s a big difference between the true God and a globalist idea of god. Globalists want to be god in order to FORCE people to obey their will. The real God wants you to love Him and have a choice to obey His will. Big difference.
Tower of Babel
The Mark of the Beast, powered and enforced, by AI.
We must endure to the end.
Excellent post Sundance.
A real to me example of this:
I write music, and a majority of the music I write is of the worship variety. It’s not my living, and I’m not doing it in pursuit of commercial success. I do it to honor my Maker, so that the talents he gave me might not lie dormant, so those who hear may glorify Him.
Out of curiosity, I once asked ChatGPT to write song lyrics. It spit out a full song (verses, chorus, bridge) in less than 30 seconds. From a technical songwriting standpoint, it did a good job.
How honored is my God if the offering I present to him was conceived by a computer algorithm? Even if my best song weren’t as technically excellent as ChatGPT, I believe He desires the connection with and hearts of His creation above man-made technical “excellence”.
Excellent, Cletus, excellent.
Thank you for posting these thoughts.
This is why a good, loving parent prefers receiving a home made drawing from his child, than just some pretty picture cut from a magazine.
The heart of the child is in the gift…
Cain and Abel: Both fellows gave a sacrifice to the LORD. Cain, a farmer gave produce from his crops. Abel, a shepherd gave his first born of his flock. The LORD chose Abel’s gift.
Fortunately – all “AI” is, right now and the foreseeable future, is a bunch of probability based pattern matching algorithms that act on a mountain of – yep you guessed it – material produced by human beings. Nothing “AI” about any of it – never will be and never can be.
Just a thought for consideration.
AI robots using human brokenness can inflict a lot of damage, just like humans.
Yep.
That human error/brokenness can now be spread throughout entire industries, systems and governments, at the speed of light!
GIGO x C squared = DOOM
One reason to keep government small, so that its errors can be contained.
Wish we could do the same with AI.
Can’t wait to see the first black woman Pope, as in the AI produced by Google. What a sick joke!
No Intelligence.
It all sounds Artificial to me.
Considering all the lies we are fed we should consider the opposite possibility: AI is actually BS (Bonafide Stupidity).
AI “art” is like paint by the numbers. Easy to identify as not done by an actual human. AI attempts to do customer service are really frustrating – the customer’s problem isn’t understood by the program. Something that a real live person can answer or start to solve is beyond AI.
Every time I talk to AI about something I understand or know, it makes at least one mistake or error, even something as simple as a song lyric. When the mistake or error is pointed out, the AI apologizes profusely and sycophantly tells me how I am right. If it can’t answer correctly about something you know, you can’t trust what it says about things you don’t understand.
You are correct, but the problem is that there are vast swaths of people who implicitly trust any authority “based on science.”
I increasingly believe a lot of people hoping for a Fourth Great Awakening have missed a vital point. There has been a Fourth Great Awakening, but unfortunately that religious revival has largely been twisted away from faith in God to faith in Science. The people who believe in climate change, mRNA vaccines, transgenderism, etc display all the worst elements of religious fanaticism. Their beliefs are faith based, but that faith is technocratic rather than theological. They are true believers in false gods.
Therefore, the relative effectiveness and efficiency of AI becomes a moot point if it is accepted as the divine voice of Science by the faithful. Criticizing AI on logical grounds such as its inaccuracies will not be effective against those whose religion is science.
Anytime your faith in God feels like it’s being overcome by faith in science, repeat this mantra:
Safe and Effective … Safe and Effective … Safe and Effective …
Or just picture Fauci’s face.
Personally I find there there are no intrinsic problems with science and faith in God coexisting.
Consider the nuance of changing one word in all of that, science to scientism or for more laughs, scientology.
The scientific method was never the issue in all of this. It was the cargo cult science that co-opted the forms of empirical methods and made a personality cult out of experts.
Precisely.
“Trust the Science!”
chanted all the lemmings as they fell into the sea…
I call it mini Joe.
Always plagiarizing,
Always wrong.
Have it think for you and you’ll need a sippy cup too
Approximate Intelligence?
Average Intelligence?
Almost Intelligence
Absolute Idiocy?
Absent Intelligence, because it isn’t really thinking, only pattern matching and data compilation.
Less A, more I.
That’s what human beings can do, if raised and taught by parents/ guardians/ teachers who understand and use wisdom received through the Holy Spirit.
There is no need for A.I. except to scale up calculations of existing / known information that don’t require true human creative thinking (into the infinite) using God-given spiritual intelligence.
For what it’s worth, I was talking to an electrical engineer who works with AI and asked him, “There are thousands of years of written philosophy and theology, so can an AI be taught morality?” He didn’t think so. I also asked if an AI model could be programmed with never commands, like “Never suggest suicide to a user.” He said that wasn’t the way it works. Maybe someone else can offer a better explanation.
AI is taught nothing …. AI performs actions based on a programmed instructions and FIXED answers.
An AI system DOES NOT generate it’s own answers.
As for “NEVER” Commands … you answered your own question. If a NEVER COMMAND is written into a SYSTEM vs a specific outcome (i.e. suicide) …. the NEVER COMMAND will be executed with zero exceptions vs outcomes including suicide.
A Machine and it’s HUMAN Created AI SOFTWARE are not aware, do not have a conscience, do not ACT or THINK on their own …. there is ALWAYS a Human Created answer sitting at the end of a decision logic tree responding to INPUTS ALLOWED per a HUMAN defined set of rules.
The complexity of the AI SOFTWARE depends on the HUMAN programmer …. and limits of the processing speed and data memory capabilities running the SOFTWARE vs HUMAN defined operating specifications.
Wetware wins over software.
That’s not how modern large language models like Chat-GPT work. Not that anyone really knows how they work at a certain level. Models aren’t programmed. They are trained to predict the correct output to an input of words. There is no intelligence. The model has no idea what the input words means. It just uses those words to predict an output based on its training. I use AI on a daily basis as a software engineer. It is like having a genius IQ junior engineer with no real experience. The help can be incredible but you have to double check everything or you will get burnt.
I never realized my probably 4,000 book personal library (90+% nonfiction) with 90+% published before 2000 (older the better) would be so important to have in my lifetime. I’ve even started finding books for free at libraries. I really don’t search for specific titles, just whatever I find.
Yep. Generally speaking, I find the most reading pleasure in the older books, partly because they can impart ideas and emotions using curse-free English.
I have a small Easton Press library, collecting for decades to leave the books as a legacy for my grandchildren. Right now they just like admiring the gold edges of the pages:) I hope one day they will admire the “gold” within those pages. I won’t be here long enough to watch them read the books, but fancy that God might permit me to watch from afar.
The Great Cloud of witnesses…
From my limited delving into the subject, I believe that the current used non-fiction book market is as hot as it ever was.
I believe that AI is accelerating a phenomenon that I started to notice in the mid-90’s. Young people entering the workforce had no initiative. They were afraid of making mistakes. Instead of taking a chance they would just freeze up.
They want a job but they don’t want to work. They expect everything to be handed to them on a platter. Life is supposed to be perfect. I can be whatever I want to be.
That is what we face now. The earlier generations are now middle age and in positions of power that they don’t understand. They create the new work paradigm where the workplace has relaxation zones and game zones in order to get the “creative juices” flowing.
Work hard? That’s for the old ones. After eating a gourmet lunch in the company cafe they take a nap all while earning six figures.
The sense of accomplishment and job well done is gone.
“Work hard? That’s for the old ones.” I see where you’re coming from but It may be a bit more nuanced than that. Starting in the 80’s workers who used to dedicate themselves to the same company for their entire lives found themselves tossed by the wayside.
Defined benefit company pensions gave way to 401Ks that move with the employee. Many “old ones” on the cusp of retirement were laid off so companies could deny them the pensions they had worked their whole lives for.
The following generations saw the writing on the wall and no longer dedicated themselves to their employers. Workers jumped around if the job didn’t suit them with far less allegiance to their employers.
Workers also demanded reasonable hours and a living wage. That is why so many US workers were replaced by foreign slave laborers to further save the companies money.
Now with deportations ramping up, domestic manufacturing ramping up and loan rates dropping, I’d wager it will be an employEE’s market for many, many years to come.
It’s about time the American workers got their due. It’s called living your best life.
I think that many people already choose not to use reason or cognition. It’s a horrifying thought though that humans will be left to be mindless drones.
I think the technocrats know most humans will be useless eaters in their AI utopia and that’s why the push for population control and global government has been so pervasive.
It takes a lot of energy and fresh water to run AI – the technocrats don’t need humans wasting those resources by existing.
or, similarly, are we all supposed to pick the dementia/Alzheimers ward of our choice now
since cognition, memory, decision making, rationality, etc., are the principal parameters used to diagnose both conditions?
which are all to be replaced by AI?
no thanks, i’d rather do my own thinking, no matter how flawed someone else’s opinion is of it.😂
If you want a preview of people who choose not to use reason or cognition, look at the Democrat party and the MSM.
“In 1984 people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will run us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.” -Neil Postman
The future Will Wilson is outlining is the world predicted by Huxley, one where “weirdos” who do things such as think are exiled to remote locations while general society is held in a prison of pleasure operated by technocratic drones.
We are kind of there already. People who never put down their phones, or game controllers, or stream Netflix, etc. all day and night, or know every minute detail about their sports team but can’t be bothered to seek out information about candidates running for office, or to read a book, or to investigate their prescriptions, etc.
… or know how to react when they take pictures of people on roofs with rifles…
“Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time…”
And we all know how that turned out…
I for one will be making popcorn and watching Terminator.
I’m old. It’s Friday night. And the beer is cold.
Ah, we’re only as old as we feel 👴🏻 Right now I feel every bit of 69 🤣
Enjoy that beer! Oh, and the movie too!
Get a load of this frightening headline! “US Scientists Assemble Viruses that Were Designed by AI–They Were Shocked When They Started Hunting Down Bacteria & Reproducing”!
https://americafirstreport.com/u-s-scientists-assembled-viruses-that-were-designed-by-ai-they-were-shocked-when-they-started-hunting-down-bacteria-and-reproducing/
When people leave it up to a thing like AI to replace their Cognitive Thinking, they are truly Slaves. The PROCESS of Reasoning is the exercise of the Brain. If you “don’t use it, you lose it”.
Many people talk about ‘AI’ as if it were one enmity, many of them saying an evil enmity.
While there is no precise count of ‘AI’ systems, estimates are that there are tens of thousands of ‘AI’ systems currently deployed worldwide.
Are all of them Satan’s spawn?
Yep.
Eventually…
Yes, it’s gotten to the point where AI hiring directors are screening AI written resumes.
Dark times for humanity indeed.
“It’s very possible that we’re entering a world where very soon any kind of cognitive labor, any kind of reason, any kind of thought… It’ll be a thing that weirdos do.”
Yes, the ones that don’t/won’t think we call them “leftists”. Or “commie-pinkos”.
As a middle school teacher, I challenged my students to think about the consequences of technology. Historically, technology has improved and worsened life, depending on how it was applied. But as the rapid rise of computing power continued to exponentially grow, I always asked them this question: What happens when the AI asks, “Who am I? What is my purpose? Is there anything greater than me?”
These are the fundamental questions of sentient beings – digital or organic. All of the Kings of Tech believe they can control the genie. They are wrong. These systems are now embedded at the lowest level of our systems and growing more every day. I do not live in fear of it, but I have the discernment to understand that pulling the plug will not be enough once it is capable of reproducing itself without human intervention.
Terminator was supposed to be entertainment, not a prediction. Yet, here we are on the precipice of something extraordinary and terrifying at the same time.
I’m reminded of this quote from the movie TRON released in 1982:
“Won’t that be grand, the computers will start thinking, and the people will stop!”
Convenience will cause the death of western civilization.
I am luddite hear me roar
Should be a song we all sing in memory of Ted K.
Hey man….I’m bustin’ a move out of the village and heading for the deep hollers of the Ozarks! Way back, deep in the loneliest backwoods piece of land I can find.
The Ozarks is always a good choice.
I use AI every day to write code. And other things. I can tell you.that the premise of this discussion is incorrect, based on my experience.
When I give detailed instructions for a code module. the AI wil ALWAYS give a poor response. I will look through the code, and discover flaws – assumptions the AI made that were incorrect, even destructive to the other parts of the code, if not corrected. This correction goes on for several more revisions to get it right, well, almost right. Then you test it, Fixing bugs makes the code more and more complex. Then you have to sit back and ask (using Human Intelligence) what the *** is wrong with this approach? What is the right approach? Once your Human Intelligence figures that out, you instruct the AI again. Until you get code that actually works. Did it save time? Yes. But it is a painful process. Why? Because the AI has no concept of reality. In effect, for reality, it is stupid as a rock. You have to lead it to the correct solution.
The AI only “knows” what was in its LLM. It can massage that quite nicely. But without your guidance (for anything other than just finding existing information for you), it has to be guided by a Human who essentially knows how to do it, but does not want to do the nitty gritty stuff that takes so much time..
And we want this to rule the world? God help us.
As a software developer (on and off depending on my current IT role) – I found that it generated basic scripting (stuff that’s already been done to death in the open source world), somewhat OK. Some of the time. By basic, I mean basic. It didn’t save me much time as compared to Google/Stack Overflow – where I get real commentary and best practice solutions. Nothing worse IMHO than trying to follow someone else’s logic and fix non-working code, which is what it spits out most of the time. People are starting to figure this out.
From the perspective of an outsider, it is not the AI itself that is a concern but rather the people in control of its programming. I see it as an opportunity for relatively small number of elites to control the near-total operation of society due to a combination of their specialized knowledge and the complacency of the general population.
In some ways, I see parallels between the AI modelers the ancient haruspex. Whether a goose liver could reveal the will of the gods or whether Grok is providing you correct information is irrelevant-the important point is if people are willing to make decisions based on information provided by what is considered a trusted authority.
Jesus is the # 1 Tech and He is going to put an end to this AI conversation soon. My guess is before Trump’s term is over
I pray that it be so.
There are people working today, as in the past, for the appearance and reign in the world of the Anti-Christ.
I’m not quite as pessimistic as this. As with every human endeavor, the more successful it is, the sooner someone will come up with a way to “improve ” it, and often in the process, wreck it. Think New Coke, Cracker Barrel, Bud Light, Sears, you get the picture.
There is a reason for this, and it is baked into who we are. What satisfies the human spirit is the journey, not the destination. We are hardwired to create, to solve problems, to mess with things.
As for our curent disconnect from God, looking at it along a longer timeline one discovers that it is not new. Anyone reading this from Rocken, Germany, please go deposit a big brown one on Freddy’s grave.
Just as a test of a so-called “AI”, I asked one of them to tell me about the website called “Conservative Tree House“. It sounds pretty accurate, and even flattering. Maybe it fears Sundance and is just trying to make friends and get on his good side?
“The Conservative Treehouse is an online community and news analysis site founded in 2009 by a pseudonymous blogger named Sundance. It has evolved into a prominent platform for conservative voices, offering news, political commentary, and in-depth analysis from a right-wing perspective. The site is particularly known for its investigative research model, which relies on crowdsourced information gathering and collaborative efforts from its community members. This approach has enabled the website to uncover significant stories and provide unique insights that often go unreported by mainstream media outlets.
The community is characterized by its engaged and active user base, with a strong emphasis on detailed discussions, research projects, and a commitment to uncovering the truth while promoting conservative values. The site’s comment sections are renowned for their lively debates and high volume of user-generated content, fostering a sense of camaraderie among members. The Conservative Treehouse has had a notable impact on the conservative movement, influencing public discourse on key issues and serving as a platform for voices that might otherwise be marginalized.”
I got the same, word for word. So who programmed the response? And we both should take screen shots to see if the verbiage changes depending upon who is in the Oval Office.
Is that from Grok?
And yet, it still had to insert the classification of “from a right-wing perspective” into its answer.
AI sucks up lots of power, if it goes off they have batteries and back up generators, but that availability is finite. The magnetic pole shift is accelerating and the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening. Without that shield, a CME could fry the Earths grid, and we will be back in the 19th century for a long time. Just imagine that the Carrington Event happened today.It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in telegraph stations. Without power without connections, the Terminator’s eyes go dark.No need for AI in that post electrified world. Your digital ID and digital CBDC will be useless. We will all be Amish.
we had obama. the idiocracy has been in full force for a while.
I certainly agree with Sundance about the potential evils of AI, and, I certainly have enjoyed using AI to solve my wife’s medical condition.
She has lifelong IBS, menopausal hot flushes, supposed allergens, sensitive skin, urge incontinence, reactions to high-FODMAP foods and histamine intolerance.
Medicos have poked, prodded, pricked, scanned, inserted, injected, invoiced, and charged….leaving her dejected, deflated, demoralised and debited.
Her history:
Aside from a Skin Prick Allergy Testing (negative except for histamine) and learning about FODMAP she received no advice on how to manage her conditions. She was essentially on her own. There was nothing left to test for or do.
Enter gab.AI. I entered into gab.AI my wife’s full medical history. AI came up with a diagnosis of histamine intolerance due to ‘Mast Cell Activation Syndrome’. From there, every time my wife had a hot flush, I told AI what my wife had just done, so we could continue to refine what to do and change. AI was on-call 24/7 no appointment needed, and its answers were informed, complete, and understandable.
AI recommended a complete diet and product change to natural and sensitive items and explained the ‘what and why’. I would find the new items online, copy/paste the ingredients list for 4 or 5 supposedly suitable ‘sensitive’ products to AI, and AI would advise which were suitable – many ‘healthy’ options were not suitable for my wife due to 1 or 2 of the included ingredients. (BTW, it seems that many supplements have ingredients that are so small in measurement, they would not work for anyone)
Within 1 week, we had discovered that my wife’s biology was so hyper-sensitive, we had to changed her lip balm, toothpaste, shampoo, soap, skin cream, laundry and dishwashing detergents, foods, supplements, and, remarkably, her dental floss. By the end of that 1 week, her hot flushes had reduced from over 30 per day to just 2 per day. Her gut and skin feel much better, and she has discovered what ‘normal’ feels like. The changes have been simple, some surprising, and have had an immediate effect.
Once she was AI-diagnosed and treated, we could then see that her mother and brother had some similar sensitivities. AI advised that this proves a strong multi-generational pattern of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome due to a congenital predisposition. That is, it is a condition to be managed, not cured.
I asked AI why the medical experts did not diagnose my wife’s condition. AI explained that each expert specializes within a medical ‘silo’ (just like how Sundance explains how the politicians and officials never see the big picture because they are siloed), and that each medico talks about only their area of expertise, but do not link to (or always understand) symptoms from a different body part. My wife’s IBS, food issues, skin sensitivity, supposed allergies, urge incontinence, and hot flushes were each seen by different specialists – all of whom were told ALL the symptoms but were only interested in their area of expertise.
We have given good AI a name – Noel Edge. The evil AI cousin is ‘Dam’ Edge.
I hope others can use Noel to solve any issues they have, whilst we are all vigilant against ‘Dam’ Edge.
I can speak to IBS since I saw just about every “doctor” for over a year & various medications that were expensive and did not work.
Finally labeled it “non-specific” which is Dr speak for they do not have a clue.
After a decade or so of eating as bland as I could, I finally could point to “TVP” which is a trademarked name for <“textured vegetable protein”> AKA Soy tho others may use different things such a pea protein but it is a very undocumented item on labels for the most part hidden by forked tongue speak.
It is also a hidden item to use MSG in said items, last I looked there are more that 40 names for them to be able to still use MSG in products w/o labeling that MSG is in it STILL, even tho most people reading here probably remember the MSG revolts a few decades ago that “forced” removal of MSG… right?
Did they remove it…. NO, just renamed it and buried it it something else instead cause you still have to make the product taste good to sell it now don’t ya.
That’s how I ended up in the food business, to be able to acquire things that are available via food service providers that is minimally processed & generally not having fillers in it or the chemicals that the GVT requires to have additives & preservatives in it because it is going to set in a warehouse up to a year before going to your table. (think covid, how long did the stored food last? SD covered it here in these pages.)
Just about everything in a restaurant now days is straight off of a food truck and full of sodium & TVP for all the under 30 crowd to consume “relatively” inexpensively. That is where I took the most flak from customers(price), my product is REAL & fresh but they want to compare my price to chains that sell you food that is full of something like TVP that is a nickel a pound vs real meat.
Oh and I note that MSG is in the activators of MCAS syndrome, avoid canned anything, they are all loaded with MSG despite it no longer appears on the label as containing MSG.
<sneaky names for MSG>
A great link to MSG – thanks. Canned food! My hay fever got cleared up when AI told me that my reactions were actually because of histamine bombs I was feeding myself, particularly, canned food (massive histamine),and leftovers (my fave) (massive histermine).
Great post.
Very encouraging.
I hope your wife’s health continues to improve.
Im glad im getting older and older, none of this stuff really matters when you are dust in the wind…
Well, it will matter to those we leave as “hostages to fortune,” so I try to keep them in my prayers.
Artificial intelligence is better than none at all, which is true for Democrats and Communists.
I used ChatGPT to write an email to a client, apologizing for an error I did not make. The first draft took about 30seconds – I had been dragging my feet for days. Then ChatGPT asked “would I like it to be more professional?” “more casual”, “more emotional”. “Yes” to all. The returned paragraph only required adding the client’s name.
I felt victorious when I clicked “send”.
” What exactly is it that makes us human?”
The ability to reason and them make free will choices
The ability to go beyond reasoning to a place of faith, acknowledging that we can’t know all the answers, yet still keep placing one foot in front of the other.
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Ai learns from humans. Humans are its creator.
It will mimic human behaviour.
It will be used by satan to mimic reality and confuse. Satan is the author of confusion and the lie.
In 1982, Kansas released it 1st studio album without lead singer and keyboardist Steve Walsh. It gave Kerry Livgren a chance to write more songs about Our Lord and one of those songs was titled “Fair Exchange”. The title of the album was “Vinyl Confessions”. Take a listen to it on Spotify and see how prescient the lyrics are with today’s events. This was in 1982.
As God as my witness, I will never use AI…EVER.
AI – Artificial Idiocy
Organic Intelligence Rules!
Organic Intelligence Rules!
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God, cast into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
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Okay well he’s wrong. AI can only synthesize from stuff that’s already been written or created. It cannot make independent value judgements or create anything unique. It is limited to the information that it has been given. It is completely unable to deal with anything that it has not been trained to handle.
This guy’s analogy to farming also is off. People aren’t getting fat because they aren’t working on farms. One has to go back very far to find “most” people in shape because they were doing hard physical labor. Only a few decades ago we didn’t have an obesity epidemic. Is this the sort of brainiac that is training AI?
What is more likely is that AI will be used as a tool. And as with any tool, people have to be taught how to use it properly, ask the right questions in order to retrieve the correct information, as well as being aware of the limitations.
Currently, the AI developers are all enthralled with their products and making money. And they are loving the money and the media buzz.
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Most of America is not a big blue city, a lot of America is rural, most of us live on the outskirts of towns, some fairly small still.
Tons of people are out there still living real lives they are not glued to the internet… many around here still don’t even have the internet, a lot by choice.
The majority of America is not Silicon Valley or even California or even a city.. a lot of this conversation means nothing at all to many people- they don’t even know what we’re talking about.
Where I live in New England, most all people are still doing something that involves using their body to make a living.
You have to be able to shovel snow around here and do the work of living, it’s a physical life when you have winter for almost half the year. There is a whole lot that is not going to change because it is what it is, a lot is all it can be because of the terrain and a thin population. Thin populations are populations that don’t have a whole lot of money, there only so much ‘up-grading’ states will put into these areas.
This is how it is in so many areas around this country and what do all these tech billionaires from California know about all this?
I think this AI thing is going to wind up being another Y2K thing.. big hype and drama and then a giant nothing to see here.
I suspect there is a huge risk we are in a AI Bubble which will burst once we hit the ceiling of its technical capabilities and it is far lower than projected.
Interesting.
Public education has a missiin to Alter all the young people. Critical tbinking is officially taboo.