One of the things I don’t get with the AI super-intelligence is how it is supposed to interact with impossibility theorems. Whilst the axioms of reality could always be conditional, barring this, we have a lot of colocation for observations. In a real sense, there is only so much observable material and only so much limit on how fast you can make some algorithms. There is a point of optimum for many lower-level systems that are constraints on what could be thought.
Thus far, AI has been very familiar, not exactly the grandiose thinker. Humanity is hiding somewhere in its code. As AI advances, we can imagine its humanity becomes hidden, but the historical definitions over continuity… the darn ship by Theseus, remains.
My concern is that it is in fact our own anthropomorphism that believes that AI will have grandiose unimaginable ideas. That really, it is only the messianic discontinuities implicit within our conception of humanity, whereby we die and come alive again without time. It is only there that the grandiose exists. That AI might be more boring is something unacceptable to humanity in its death drive.
This is a really excellent piece. Thank you Vincent. A clear and helpful reading of D&G. And a terrifyingly cogent analysis of Land.
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Very good (and also terrifying)
Thanks.
One of the things I don’t get with the AI super-intelligence is how it is supposed to interact with impossibility theorems. Whilst the axioms of reality could always be conditional, barring this, we have a lot of colocation for observations. In a real sense, there is only so much observable material and only so much limit on how fast you can make some algorithms. There is a point of optimum for many lower-level systems that are constraints on what could be thought.
Thus far, AI has been very familiar, not exactly the grandiose thinker. Humanity is hiding somewhere in its code. As AI advances, we can imagine its humanity becomes hidden, but the historical definitions over continuity… the darn ship by Theseus, remains.
My concern is that it is in fact our own anthropomorphism that believes that AI will have grandiose unimaginable ideas. That really, it is only the messianic discontinuities implicit within our conception of humanity, whereby we die and come alive again without time. It is only there that the grandiose exists. That AI might be more boring is something unacceptable to humanity in its death drive.
It might become clearer if we think of AI more in terms of markets or capitalism than in terms of LLMs.
realism alternative to landian idea of capitalism as AI, different thoughts
https://tuhat.net/u/soplepel/p/intelligence-effectuates-capitalism-and-capitalism-is-not-but-intelligent
Thanks!
Really helpful essay — clarified not just Land’s views for me but also Deleuze and Guattari’s.
Glad it helped!