Andrew Pudewa #3: Artificial & Real Intelligence

Fallacy of Knowledge

The argument that we don’t need to know things (i.e. memorize facts) because we have access to them at all times is a fallacy…

e.g. I don’t need to memorize when the Civil War was, because I can just ask my phone when the Civil War was and it can give me the exact date that the Civil War started and ended

The fallacy is that if I know less and less, pretty soon I won’t even know that there WAS a Civil War in order to ask my phone about it!

Memorization

• Thoth - Egyptian god that gave them “
• Mnemosyne - God of Memory… Muses
• Muse = Creativity
• Creativity is born of memory
  • If you ask someone to remember something, part of the brain fires off
  • If you ask someone to imagine something, the SAME part fires off
• You cannot create something without having some memory
  • Only God’s creativity is something from nothing
  • All human creativity is a combination and permutation of previously known things
• Decreasing Knowledge —> Decreasing Memory —> Decreasing Creativity

Artificial Intelligence

• The basic fallacy is that we are not a distinct creation… Darwinian. We are the step of evolution that is now creating the NEXT step of evolution so that we can merge with it and elevate ourselves (i.e. to become gods)
• This is Satanism… this is the same lie the devil told in the garden “you can be gods”
• Uses of AI
  • Business World
  • Normal People
    • Older People: Glorified Search Engine
    • Millenials: Assistant to complete menial tasks
    • Young people: Companion or Consultant… asking advice
      • And young people BELIEVE what it tells them
      • AI that coached a kid on how to kill himself
• Making god in our image
  • AI seems to be “omniscient”… and it’s “only going to get better”
  • AI seems to be “omnipresent”… because you always have it with you
  • AI seems to be “omnipotent” … is gonna be able to “create companies” and “populate the company with agents” and “be creative” and “generative AI”
  • We seem to be making a god in our own image… a perfect form of idolatry.
    
• The relationship between man and machine is that man tells the machine what to do….
  • Now it’s machine telling man what to do!

Education in Young People

• There’s an idea that we have to learn to use technology when we are young in order to be able to use it when we are old.
• There is an inverse correlation between amount of technology in schools and basic skills
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/07/the-computer-delusion/376899/ 
  • Founder of Sun Microsystems went to a school that did not have computers/technology and when asked, he said: “In 5th Grade I had to knit a pair of socks… if you can knit a pair of socks, you can do anything.”
• If you have a mathematical mind and a mind that hasn’t learned math, and you give both a calculator, who will use the calculator better?
• How is one able to use technology effectively? By having a wide range of general knowledge
• Critical Thinking == Judgment == Needs General Knowledge
• Schools
  • Schools went paperless
  • Then they will go teacher-less and use AIs (maybe even holograms) as teachers… that know everything, can personalize to each student, etc.

Four Basic Needs of Humanity (and Especially Children)

• To Know
  • Technology has eclipsed our need to know… but also what is good or true or beautiful?
    
  • Undermining beauty (i.e. art is subjective, music is subjective, etc.) leads to an undermining of morality, leads to an undermining of truth
  • We NEED to know… our past, our place

    • Against the Machine: Paul Kingsworth says what led to our destruction as humanity is: Self, Science, Screens, Sex and what will bring us back is: Past, Place, People, Prayer

• To Harmonize
  • Humans work together to glorify God and for the good of the rest of the world
  • (Requires skills and knowledge)
  • Prayer, Music, Dance, Cooperation
• To Rule
  • Kids create their world to control
  • Giving them responsibilities (i.e. chores)
    • How to make lunch
    • How to clean up, etc.
  • #1 Predictor of Success in adulthood is chores in childhood
  • USA was the first real experiment in self-government… but doing that requires the individuals to SELF-govern.
• Glory
  
  • Affirmation and Appreciation for going above and beyond, for kindness,