Artificial Strength, et al.

I am sure I do not need to explain to you that a major topic of internet conversation and articles is artificial intelligence. What will AI do to economic life, spiritual life and social life; and of more immediate concern to many, are we in an AI bubble in the markets building data centers that will destroy our neighborhoods. In one insightful discussion AI is described as toxic, a moloch trap, a tool that is an idol, where we serve the tool instead of the tool serving us. On the other hand, any All In Podcast of rich techno bros puffs up the benefits of AI.

I am also sure AI will have a profound impact, both positive and negative, just like many other technical innovations that have extended human power. For example, consider the power of artificial memory provided by the innovation of writing. In Phaedrus by Plato, Socrates is speaking to Phaedrus: 1 Body Methylated B Co... Check Amazon for Pricing.

“At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To him came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts. But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.” [my emphasis]

I often use the artificial memory of the smart phone to look up items I know that I know, but have forgotten.

In another example, artificial experience, a YouTube video by a musicologist, noted “how the metronome fundamentally changed how we as a culture heard, felt, and thought about rhythm and meter. Every now and again, the world is introduced to a new technology that completely flips how we think about the world on its head. In 1815, the metronome was that invention for musicians. An invention that ushered in the practical means to shift our cultural relationship with musical time itself from natural to mechanical, cementing a mathematical understanding of the nature of music into the very fabric of western culture. Paradigm shifting technology has the unique and terrifying power to change us irrevocably.” Liquid Vitamin D3 K2 D... Check Amazon for Pricing.

Trains and automobiles have radically changed the time it takes to travel while also changing the landscape itself. All kinds of machines, including the lever and the wheel, have given humans artificial strength. Now, most people in the developed world must exercise our bodies to maintain physiological health.

A fundamental danger of artificial intelligence is pinpointed here: I believe the relentless hype around artificial intelligence is blinding us to the real catastrophe: the masses are eagerly outsourcing their minds to machines, trading their ability to think for the convenience of having a digital oracle answer every question. Meanwhile, the globalist elite are busy building their silicon gods, constructing a surveillance infrastructure that will one day render human decision-making obsolete — or worse, punish it.

All artificial means we use to increase our power will inevitably decrease our physiological and mental abilities. I predict we will need mental gyms, to maintain our minds in physiological and mental health.

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