Artificial Intelligence, Isn’t

Artificial intelligence isn’t.   It is SIMULATED intelligence. The difference may seem subtle, but when you come to see it clearly, the distinction becomes stark and centrally relevantvant to the future.

Artificial life, for example, is still life. SIMULATED, AKA FAKE life is not life at all. That is why we calll it “fake”. 

A plastic cow is a fake cow; a SIMULACRUM. It is not an artificial cow in the sense of being an actual cow.  Bear in mind the actual and precise meaning of “artificial” and “artifice”. 

A living, breathing cow built by human artifice is still a cow.  It is not a simulation.  A blow-molded polyethylene cow is artificial in that it is man made, but it is not an actual cow.  It is a simulacrum and nothing more.

This issue was fantastically raised in the two “Bladerunner” films .  The rotten corrupted people regarded and treated the so-called  “replicants” as mere simulacra; as empty lumps of flesh never to be granted the respect due any living thing that feels pain, love, and experiences joy.  But this was shown the lie that it is when the character of Nia der Wallace disembowels the newly “born” but sterile female, and his replicant assistant “Luv” visibly starts at the grim spectacle of it.  

“AI” as a term is at the kindest best a misnomer. More likely it is a bald-faced lie becausethough it is artificially contrived, it is decidedly not sentient intelligence. It is SIMULATED INTELLIGENCE, where here “simulated” subsumes artifice, prima facie.  

There are those who will say “so what”?  

The difference is perhaps subtle to some in a narrowly considered practical view. But broadly taken, the difference is very stark as well as being central to the practical quality and direction that human existence stands to take.

Just imagine if it were to become a capital offense to destroy a robot cop in self defense as the simulacrum tried to violate your sovereign rights as a sentient, living soul, based on the assumption that said robot was intelligent in the way of a humann being and thereby sentient and imbued with equal rights. 

THAT is the nature of the problem we face, as people receive, accept, and inevitably normalize the lie that machine intelligence is in fact artificial and not a mere simulationstion, regardless of how convincing the outward manifestations may be. The assumption will in time become so deeply embedded; so completely entrenched and invisibly tacit, as to leave the human world no longer capable of seeing the forest of truth for the trees that are the outright lies and misrepresentations, erroneously or deliberately foisted upon the world for the sake of more utter control. 

And bear in mind this: if Theye (those in material power) can go that far in ther dclelared stretching and brealing of truth and basic sense, be assured that then there will be no line that they cannot and eventually will not cross. 

So the time is here to get your heads clear and correct, and make a rational and sane decision on how you will regard such simulations and the people who peddle the lies and errors piruant to agendas whose goals are of a nature that no sane man would approve, and might even fight unto his own destruction for his rejection of them.

It is time to let your “leaders” know that you are in possession of the truth and that you will tolerate none of their chicanery on such matters.   In this I state it in the most general terms, as well as is relevant to the changes that SI (simulated Intelligence) will doubtlessly bring to the human world. 

Time is here. 

Mors tyrannis. 

Mors ignorantiae

Mors corruptioni hominum

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.