[…] scrappy underdog makes sense, right? Like where you’re like, yeah, like, Oh, I can go buy this drone and.
In a horrible podcast called AI and Neuroscience: Global Impacts & Redefining Humanity that I simply had to check out because of its repugnant title—brave announces it, basically forces it upon you inside a new tab page. The guy interviewed, Benjamin B. Bargetzi, appears to me like a parody of today’s science and IT guys.
I will first note that I could not listen to this at all due to their constant use of like, sounding as if they are fourteen year old school girls. A quote:
[…] scrappy underdog makes sense, right? Like where you’re like, yeah, like, Oh, I can go buy this drone and.
… ? Absolutely horrible.
Regarding his AI literacy dung he wants to force on all of humanity, I can only quote what Nils M. Holm wrote about the complexity of today’s software industry (via Hacker News):
My personal perspective is that computing has become much more complicated than necessary in the past decades. Of course abstraction will always create complexity, and some of that can hardly be avoided, but in computing these days complexity is really off the charts.
Bargetzi, though, proudly notes:
And I have to explain to them what JetJPT is, like it’s insane, it’s actually crazy. And, and I think that’s really the bubble that you and I are in, you know, there’s like, there’s like people who love technology and are always on the new gadgets. It’s a very small portion of the world that actually is on this passion.
Yes, and your education suffers because of it, given that he buys into Darwin and Freud, hardly sounds like someone who could be a professor, though this shows how much of a Idiocracy we already are.
Further, most software is awful, is bloated, and horrible to use; I prefer to use lynx to browse the web, I use text-based software almost exclusively. Brave, too, is horribly bloated, but so is every other modern, javascript-capable browser I need to fire up from time to time because of how awful the Web has become.
Quoting Nils M. Holm again (via Hacker News again):
I love Lynx, _because_ it cannot do Javascript, CSS, and videos. It is the last frontier in a Web that becomes more and more focused on appearance and less and less on content.
Some sites somehow manage to make the content wider than the screen or set foreground and background colors with bad contrast, even with style sheets and JS turned off. Lynx is the only rescue in such cases. If it really should die some day, I will keep maintaining it.
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Reader view often excludes figures that are important for understanding a text, so this unfortunately is not an option for me.
I have set my font size to 32pt and do not allow web sites to use smaller fonts or typefaces other than my preferred one. Also, I have set text color to green on black, which is easiest to read for me. You would not believe how many web sites do change background color, but do not set text color, leaving me with bright-green on white text. :/
Then, a large font causes components to overlap, rendering text and buttons inaccessible. Disabling style sheets does not always help, either (and turns every modern web site into a complete mess). Semantic web? LOL.
Javascript, as others mentioned, is a huge problem, because it somehow seems to be able to bypass my font and color settings. I have it turned off all the time now and just do not visit sites that require it. Well, more time for more interesting things! A silver lining in every cloud! :)
Even Vox Day thinks so:
Computer technology has now reached the point of declining marginal utility for most users, and Windows is becoming ridiculously intrusive, so you can get some real bargains as long as you are willing to enter the tank zone and don’t have any esoteric software requirements.
These tech guys like Bargetzi are nuts, they most likely aren’t even capable of understanding what they are talking about, not least given that their life revolves around bathing, trekking and using the newest gadgets.
I use old software and am usually more drawn to the past and what’s old than to what is new and fancy.
To quote Gómez Dávila:
To appreciate the ancient or the modern is easy; but to appreciate the obsolete is the triumph of authentic taste.
Our contemporaries denigrate the past so that they do not commit suicide out of shame and nostalgia.
Regarding AI and medicine, Bargetzi said (quoting from the transcript which I will not correct):
[…] they could benefit so much from AI. And if you think about how many human lives we can save by implementing this, I mean, you just have to get excited about AI, to be honest.
No, I don’t have to. You also cannot save a life, you only prolong it. Since I hate my life, I would have to kill an imbecile like Benjamin Bargetzi—whose accent is just awful—if he tried to use his Unintelligent Intelligence to force me to live even longer!
The elephant in the room wasn’t touched at all, obviously: eugenics. No, “mating” is totally fine, genetic scum—like my father—having children, even out-of-wedlock!—is totally fine!
This also shows that all these people working on this dung are atheists. After all, he also buys into evolution, showing how little he even understands of the already false and fake mainstream orthodoxy of it:
And I mean, I’m leaning a bit out of the window here, but from an evolutionary perspective, you can argue that the task of evolution is to adopt you very quickly. To your environment to make you succeed in that environment. And actually then if our brain starts deprioritizing attention span, because it learns that in this new world, it’s not needed and instead, you know, invests more in brain areas or skills that are needed.
Evolution is not even wrong, and “its” task is nothing more than to turn you into a more efficient killing machine. Obviously, I don’t believe in evolution, and someone how bows before some algrithm is hard to take seriously.
(If we take “orthodox evolution” seriously, it teaches nothing more than to survive and have as much offspring as possible … in whatever way possible and for no good reason at all, since it does not answer such “unimportant” questions. Obviously, bacteria are doing fine or even better already in such cases. Evolutionists never succeeded in explaining why complex organisms, or life at all!, should have “arisen” given such a banal goal. Their attempts at explaining it are laughable, ridiculous. I would off myself immediately if I knew with certainty that I would not have to suffer even more in a world to come.)
What he is in favor for is social darwinism, that is all. It’s also telling that now, adaption to one’s environment apparently happens very quickly, while in the past, those who believed in evolution stressed the large time scales over which the very slow adaption process happened.
After all, we are able to go back twenty and more generations, and there is no difference there at all. So they always have to lie to defend their viewpoints.
Some further idiocy from Bargetzi:
You’re actually doing the right thing. That’s also what I’m saying on stage. Always like, you know, yeah, our attention spans are decreasing, but maybe the new age just doesn’t need that anymore. Right. I think that’s three and that’s to give you like, and then I stopped talking to give you one last answer to your question.
I mean, I do entire executive coaching sessions with CEOs, one hour or 12 week program. On how to use AI tools to do stuff they took 20 hours before to do it in 20 minutes. And I mean, this kind of productivity speed, I do it in my own life. I mean, I automate every single thing I can and just increase my productivity.
However, I have very strict rules and you can try that. That Friday evening to Monday morning, my phone is off and gone. And so is my laptop and everything. So every single weekend I’m gone from the planet. My phone is off. I have a personal assistant who does my social media posting for me in that timeframe, because I’m not going to touch my phone or laptop on the weekends.
I’m going to mountains. I do hiking. I detox the dopamine kicks in my brain. And I think that’s really because I’m born from both of these worlds. On one hand, the machine world, where I really love the power it brings and to speed and use that in my business life or for my clients, but at the same time, I really need this neuroscientific.
psychological piece that comes with being offline in nature, in a cold bath, whatever it may be. And I do advocate for that strongly, that people don’t just use technology only, but then of course also are not stupid and deny the enormous benefits that you can achieve in life if you take these tools seriously.
He admits he does not read books, so he is not much of a thinker or contemplative person anyway. This sounds like your average transhumanist dung you can read on sites like lesswrong. Why do we want such imbeciles, who even think decreasing attention spans are fine, to be in charge of anything?
One is “doing the right thing” because not only does he really believe in evolution, he actually thinks we no longer need our attention span …
It appears almost as if he is oblivious to the political changes that are sweeping across the West. We are going under, there will be chaos in the end anyway. During which decreasing attention spans may even play a role, in any case they are certainly not helping and not positive.
His productivity nonsense is as unbearable as his rhetoric regarding achieving … whatever in life.
He also needs to answer why, with all the “great” technology we have now, there is no genius on the horizon at all.
He most likely does not care, though, since he is uneducated and stupid. Quote:
So you had these, you know, human crises. You first have Copernicus, right? Like stating that the earth is not the center of the universe, but just like. One stupid planet among like many others. Right. And then you had Darwin being like, Hey guys, by the way, you’re actually not really special beings. You’re just animals, right?
You are, who have your instincts, your behaviors and all these tribal behavior. And then came like Freud and was like, Hey guys, by the way, like all this rationality, this brain that you’re proud of. The very least part of it, you’re actually controlling. Most of it is just automatic, right? And now basically, I mean, to some degree called us robots, right?
Right? Right? Right? I would have to really restrain myself not to punch this clown in the face for his juvenile behaviour.
And you’re wrong, Copernicus no one cared about, and was never in any way important to common man. Also, stupid planet? Yet he is addicted to life! Unlike myself, a Christian, wishing to die. Not to speak of the fact that earth stands out pretty clearly from all other planets we know about.
and … Darwin? Freud? Are you kidding us? Frauds. In the case of Freud, this has been known for decades, laid out in books like Hans Jürgen Eysenck’s Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire from … 1985 …
His praise for AI and its “ability” to write texts that are, like, literature, is bordering on debility: AI utilizes sources written by man. Without feeding it, nothing will come out of it. Where did that used to feed it with come from …? Is he that dumb? Garbage in, garbage out. The programming is highly biased anyway.
Further, he even admits that depression increases because of social media, which no one needs and is absolutely useless anyway:
So dopamine is our neurotransmitter that helps us decide what we want, what we strive for, what we crave. And in evolution, that was our best friend, right? Like it told us to. Strive for sugar because sugar gives us energy to walk longer distances. It told us to strive for information because information and gossip help us know what’s happening in the world around us But nowadays like we get all these dopamine kicks from all the food around us That’s way too much sugar and from social media reels which contain very condensed information and gossip, right to update our brains But that just means we’re constantly like dopamine over flooded You And that explains also why depression rates are so high because these constant kicks that we’re getting from all these technologies and from video games from reels from all this nonsense, it actually makes us addicted to quick, quick inputs to quick stimulation.
also reason why the dating landscape is horrible because people need quick kicks and all these things right and fundamentally what’s happening here is that we have all made our brains addicted to like easy pleasure and an easy life alcohol cigarettes whatever you name it and i’m not giving you a speech here that this is the wrong way to live but i just say If you want to break out of this dopamine trap, you really need discipline and routine.
He even understands that a lot of it is nonsense, yet he needs to defend technology and tries to explain the bad or downright evil of it away.
No, it is the wrong way to live, and as J. D. Unwin wrote in 1932 in his work Sex and Culture, whenever monogamy is replaced with promiscuity, society’s downfall is complete after around three generations.
Secular psychologists accept that the best way for children to grow up is with married, biological parents. I did not and am suffering trash.
It’s no use to go on with this, such people will never learn. However, it is even more reason to simply read. My machines are on all the time, though I have blocked all of social media anyway.
Sad that children are having to grow up during such awful times. They will be the ones who are wronged by technology the most. What to expect, though, from modern man? He is busy feeding his primitive appetites, reading “game” blogs in order to live an incontinent life God, Christ, currently punishes us for in the West.
Yet another reason to use lynx exclusively.
I will stop here and end with a quote by Langan via Vox Day’s blog:
AI and Truth
Chris Langan responds to a recent Torba post discussing Jordan Peterson’s critique of an AI chatbot:
Chris Langan:
Narratives, propaganda, and false dogma are the stock-in-trade of the techie elite, who exist in order to purvey it and block any competition for the minds and hearts of the public. AI (“artificial intelligence”, an oxymoronic misnomer) is merely a tool to be applied in pursuit of their abominable social-engineering / world domination agenda.
This much is obvious. That’s why Jordan Peterson’s rich, powerful employers let him talk about it. He was told what he could or couldn’t talk about by Academia Inc. as a university instructor shilling for the oligarchy, and in this sense little has changed – the same bunch owns both academia and the media. This evidently includes the Daily Wire, Mr. Peterson’s partners.
In any case, it’s really all about Truth. Many of those who complain about the oligarchy would merely prefer to have their own brand of truth promoted. But to promote one’s own brand of truth while bypassing Truth-with-a-capital-T isn’t much better than lying, both by commission and omission. Lower-case “truth” is what the techie elite are all about these days.
Those who understand Truth are not usually allowed to engage with establishment carnival barkers paid to promote BS narratives disguised as “truth”. On the other hand, rubbing elbows with establishment shills entails the risk of spiritual contamination, and some prefer to avoid it.
No matter who ends up writing the “AI” programming, we can depend on a constant flow of “useful” ideology (as in “attractive to useful idiots”).
Vox Day:
AI text and image generation is just another tool being utilized to obscure the truth. It’s no different than the way Wikipedia is now describing the Rothschild family as “European” instead of “Jewish”. Technology is now firmly in the service of the Zero Historians, who are intrinsically inimical to both the truth and the Truth. So what Torba is doing, what we are doing, has to be dedicated to consistently preserving and expounding the truth and the Truth.
Anyone, no matter what he calls himself, who is opposed to the exposure of the truth, is either in service to, or enslaved by, the Evil One.
Ending with gómezdávilanian dynamite:
More repulsive than the future which progressives unintentionally prepare is the future they dream of.
Man, until yesterday, did not deserve to be called a rational animal. The definition was inexact as long as he invented, according to his preference, religious attitudes and ethical behavior, aesthetic tasks and philosophical meditations.
Today, on the other hand, man limits himself to being a rational animal, that is to say: an inventor of practical rules at the service of his animality.Man ends up being motivated by the motives which they say he has. A beast if they say that his soul dies with the souls of beasts; an animal with shame, at least, if they say that he has an immortal soul.
What is “rational” consists in prolonging life, avoiding pain, satisfying the appetite for hunger and sex.
Only some such definition sheds any light on the discourse of the last centuries.It turns out it is impossible to convince a businessman that a profitable activity can be immoral.
Opinions, customs, institutions, cities—everything has become vulgar, since we gave up repairing the old in order to buy every day some gaudy novelty.
We should ask the majority of people not to be sincere, but mute.
The progressive believes that everything soon becomes obsolete, except his ideas.
More so than the immorality of the contemporary world, it is its growing ugliness that moves one to dream of a cloister.
In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.
Man’s three enemies are: the devil, the state, and technology.
Modern civilization would be committing suicide, if it were truly succeeding in educating man.
Man is an animal that can be educated, provided he does not fall into the hands of progressive pedagogues.
The modern world will not be punished.
It is the punishment.Whoever abandons himself to his instincts degrades his face as obviously as he degrades his soul.