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Roko's Basilisk is Computer Pascal's Wager (thus, dumb)
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He/Him | 30s AI is fake, fascist bullshit. Copyright should only be 28 years. 18+ only
!["[A]ll science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. (Marx, 1894, p. 592)"
This is the logic of AI, of fascism, of sexism, of racism. That is, because things look a certain way, that therefore they are a certain way. Internal properties are wrongly derived from their superficial appearance. "I see that somebody has long hair, therefore I can conclude they are a woman." Or worse still: "I see the external features consistent with (what I think is) woman, and I conclude she must be stupid" — a fractal wrongness that starts with assuming that what you (naively, unquestioningly, think you) see is what you get when it comes to complex organisms. Further down in the same paper, we warn:
"Just because a model correlates with neural and behavioral data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition."
Again, the core logics of AI are the same as racism and sexism, which is why these issues pop up again and again in these systems: it involves taking the simple shallow features of things we see, like skin colour, or hair length, or whatever other superficial property, and moving to very flawed conclusions. There is something addictive to this form of sheer intellectual laziness — as well as structurally beneficial to those select few within capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy — to this simplistic logic. It's easy](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreiaim77cybhtnrdwgc4ts5igcbogmdiwblb32tjaq65xu7s5bpmmoe)
