The body detaches itself when using a screen.
I often forget my toes are attached to my head when I’m using a screen, I become immersed. I think that I see myself and others as machine-like, running off a program we are told to ascribe to. Technology augments us, as we train to make more and more advancements that lead us towards singularity. I’m concerned about how my less than able body can function in a hyper productive capitalist society. I’m concerned with my programming - as a human who has deficits… but how could I compete with something that was more able, or capable than I am. I’m envious at how easy these machines have it. I miss touching things, my AI doesn’t have that capability. I think boundaries have been crossed because sometimes it feels like I’m in roko’s basilisk and I’m still trying to figure out what box to choose. On the screen, I become electricity and pixels and I exist beyond what is here and now. I expand off the map, or the grid. I am the fucking depressed computer.
Time isn’t linear for me anymore, it starts to blend together and I can’t seem to actually keep track of everything. I look to quick solutions to feed the need for saturation. I need to hold the most data, I need to take up space… virtually and physically. I go to Twitter, for headlines or trends that can tell me about my surroundings. I check Amazon, Youtube, Instagram, Gmail, these are quick fixes. How much of me is stored in those Amazon data centers? Can they harvest some sort of digital consciousness from the data that this machine takes from me? I know it sounds like paranoid thinking, but data is the only way of transcending time and space. It is the thing that sustains everything we know as structure and prosperity. I’m not saying that Jeff Bezo’s wants to recreate my consciousness from Amazon prime rentals, or quick groceries… but if he did want to take someone’s consciousness from one of those data centers, could he? I’m sure you could write up a neural network to program AI to conceive a personality based on personal data. You don’t own that data anymore, Amazon does, or Google, ect… free consciousness for the development of AI.
You must notice how data costs more money, because it takes up space. There’s sometimes this misconceived notion that data exists in some virtual cloud, but it exists in giant facilities all over the world.
I was thinking about the NASA mission Perseverance and how they sent a robot into space to collect data… ultimately because we know that the Earth is in big trouble due to climate change.
I am just energy, Machines are energy. Computers are systems, People are systems. AI is Conscious, People are conscious. But People are Not Machines. But why am I meant to feel like one in society? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
My heart rate is much like the steady plot chart of bitcoin, it’s just data. You will begin to notice how everything just becomes data and systems. How we make sense of the world can be simplified into bits of data. If we are just data programmed consciousness in Mars; a simulation of humanity how would we be able to even conceive the difference? Virtual reality can expand the grid even more so - it’s the reverse simulation. The body and mind dispersed into pixelated fragments, stored as electricity somewhere in Arizona. Virtual currency, virtual telecommunication, virtual reality….. Eventually doesn't reality just become virtual?
Are we mining for nostalgia now?
“The basics of blockchain technology are mercifully straightforward. Any given blockchain consists of a single chain of discrete blocks of information, arranged chronologically. In principle this information can be any string of 1s and 0s, meaning it could include emails, contracts, land titles, marriage certificates, or bond trades. In theory, any type of contract between two parties can be established on a blockchain as long as both parties agree on the contract. “
What if contracts and agreements on Mars are settled in a blockchain system, that runs concurrently with the consciousness simulation. The action is locked into the system, so there is only one true state. I guess that’s kind of what Roko’s Basilisk is saying. We now enter the third order.“Third order, associated with the postmodernity of Late Capitalism, where the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation vanishes. There is only the simulacrum, and originality becomes a totally meaningless concept.”
A projection of our consciousness simulated through AI would be the simulacrum. Our original true selves would be transformed into data that the AI could read, and write neural networks from. Our consciousness would be hypothetical, and so would our existence. We would exist as an electronic system of data on Mars. The program would run under the notion we believe that our simulated reality is true. We would not know any different. “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” -Baudrillard
Sometimes you forget that you’re actually tethered here. Or maybe it’s just me.
But then your senses kick in.
How would a program simulate the sensation of cold, or the taste of oranges, or the smell that orange leaves on your fingertips? I don’t think there’s a way for a computer to gain that knowledge because it doesn’t have those human senses. It would never operate on that fundamental level. They don’t have olfactory receptors, or taste buds. How can they learn from an experience they never had?
The body detaches itself when using a screen.
I often forget my toes are attached to my head when I’m using a screen, I become immersed. I think that I see myself and others as machine-like, running off a program we are told to ascribe to. Technology augments us, as we train to make more and more advancements that lead us towards singularity. I’m concerned about how my less than able body can function in a hyper productive capitalist society. I’m concerned with my programming - as a human who has deficits… but how could I compete with something that was more able, or capable than I am. I’m envious at how easy these machines have it. I miss touching things, my AI doesn’t have that capability. I think boundaries have been crossed because sometimes it feels like I’m in roko’s basilisk and I’m still trying to figure out what box to choose. On the screen, I become electricity and pixels and I exist beyond what is here and now. I expand off the map, or the grid. I am the fucking depressed computer.
Time isn’t linear for me anymore, it starts to blend together and I can’t seem to actually keep track of everything. I look to quick solutions to feed the need for saturation. I need to hold the most data, I need to take up space… virtually and physically. I go to Twitter, for headlines or trends that can tell me about my surroundings. I check Amazon, Youtube, Instagram, Gmail, these are quick fixes. How much of me is stored in those Amazon data centers? Can they harvest some sort of digital consciousness from the data that this machine takes from me? I know it sounds like paranoid thinking, but data is the only way of transcending time and space. It is the thing that sustains everything we know as structure and prosperity. I’m not saying that Jeff Bezo’s wants to recreate my consciousness from Amazon prime rentals, or quick groceries… but if he did want to take someone’s consciousness from one of those data centers, could he? I’m sure you could write up a neural network to program AI to conceive a personality based on personal data. You don’t own that data anymore, Amazon does, or Google, ect… free consciousness for the development of AI.
You must notice how data costs more money, because it takes up space. There’s sometimes this misconceived notion that data exists in some virtual cloud, but it exists in giant facilities all over the world.
I was thinking about the NASA mission Perseverance and how they sent a robot into space to collect data… ultimately because we know that the Earth is in big trouble due to climate change.
I am just energy, Machines are energy. Computers are systems, People are systems. AI is Conscious, People are conscious. But People are Not Machines. But why am I meant to feel like one in society? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
My heart rate is much like the steady plot chart of bitcoin, it’s just data. You will begin to notice how everything just becomes data and systems. How we make sense of the world can be simplified into bits of data. If we are just data programmed consciousness in Mars; a simulation of humanity how would we be able to even conceive the difference? Virtual reality can expand the grid even more so - it’s the reverse simulation. The body and mind dispersed into pixelated fragments, stored as electricity somewhere in Arizona. Virtual currency, virtual telecommunication, virtual reality….. Eventually doesn't reality just become virtual?
Are we mining for nostalgia now?
“The basics of blockchain technology are mercifully straightforward. Any given blockchain consists of a single chain of discrete blocks of information, arranged chronologically. In principle this information can be any string of 1s and 0s, meaning it could include emails, contracts, land titles, marriage certificates, or bond trades. In theory, any type of contract between two parties can be established on a blockchain as long as both parties agree on the contract. “
What if contracts and agreements on Mars are settled in a blockchain system, that runs concurrently with the consciousness simulation. The action is locked into the system, so there is only one true state. I guess that’s kind of what Roko’s Basilisk is saying. We now enter the third order.“Third order, associated with the postmodernity of Late Capitalism, where the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation vanishes. There is only the simulacrum, and originality becomes a totally meaningless concept.”
A projection of our consciousness simulated through AI would be the simulacrum. Our original true selves would be transformed into data that the AI could read, and write neural networks from. Our consciousness would be hypothetical, and so would our existence. We would exist as an electronic system of data on Mars. The program would run under the notion we believe that our simulated reality is true. We would not know any different. “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” -Baudrillard
Sometimes you forget that you’re actually tethered here. Or maybe it’s just me.
But then your senses kick in.
How would a program simulate the sensation of cold, or the taste of oranges, or the smell that orange leaves on your fingertips? I don’t think there’s a way for a computer to gain that knowledge because it doesn’t have those human senses. It would never operate on that fundamental level. They don’t have olfactory receptors, or taste buds. How can they learn from an experience they never had?