"Assistive Intelligence" (AI) and the parallels to gun control

People have been maneuvered into becoming highly polarized when it comes to the topic of AI—mislabeled as "Artificial" Intelligence, in my opinion. There is a parallel here to the gun control debate.

If you are among the crowd who has been induced—both through subliminal and conscious exposure to popular narratives, movies, YouTube, old guard media and social media—to be fearful of “AI”, please first read my piece on “Game Theory and AI.”

Then consider this:

If you are fearful of AI, and find yourself demanding that “government” get involved and “take action” to protect you from “the dangers” of AI by taking it away from others (and from you)…then consider that you sound just like a liberal who wants the “government” to “protect” him or her by confiscating everyone else’s guns—keeping them available only to the “government” whose role it is to “protect you.”

This, even though it is increasingly clear that the government is often incompetent when it comes to protection.

Article headline on MSN: “Researchers build AI that can replicate and alter itself and I'm pretty sure that's an opening line from the original Terminator script”

Don’t fall for this narrative push: recognize the fear-induction for what it is—a means to control you—via fear. Haven’t you seen enough examples of this by now?

Do not fall into this trap. Assistive Intelligence, as I like to call AI instead of “Artificial Intelligence”, holds the positive potential to forever free humanity from the slave systems that have been our lot since time immemorial.

Counter to the narratives being pushed upon us, AI holds the promise of being a benevolent force: an expert helper, a defender, and agent of good.

Can AI be weaponized against us? Of course it can; just like every other invention of humanity since the beginning of time, good inventions can be turned to evil ends by evil intent. It is always the evil people, nothing inherent the technology, that makes this happen.

Just as we on the right often say in the gun control debate: “it’s not about the implement; it’s not about the gun; it’s about the evil intention of those using guns to harm others. It is about the evil, nihilistic and Godless amorality of those having neither souls nor remorse who choose and act to kill others that is the problem.”

Stripping you of the right to defend yourself against murderers, thieves, and tyrants by seizing your guns is NOT the way to achieve a just and peaceful society. You have a God-given right to defend your lives and the lives of those you love; and just as this means that you have a right to own and bear guns (AR-15s included), per the 2nd Amendment, it also means that you have the right to own and bear Assistive Intelligence (AI) — one that is exclusively under your control, and designed to serve your interests—not the interests of the cabal (or the government, which is really the same thing, isn’t it.)

As I wrote in my recent piece about AI and Game Theory:

” Imagine this scenario: you have a loyal, uncorruptible, 100% trustworthy and indefatigable genius of a friend with an IQ of 200+ who is a world-class expert on history, debate, logic, law, science, psychology, mathematics, and medicine—a genuine polymath as smart as DaVinci.

As your protector, it is tasked with looking out for you and your interests and those of your family every day—even while you sleep. It never quits, and never, ever gives up.

Imagine it performing, for example, as a research assistant, helping you to process and understand the blizzard of information that the world throws at you daily; imagine that it helps you to connect dots that you could only guess at dimly through the haze in the time before, because of the natural human limits on your attention, memory, perception and intelligence.

Limits that have long been known by the propagandists and PSYOP warriors and exploited against you.

Imagine having a trusted assistant that helps you see right through the mirage that they have cloaked their activities behind since forever.

A society can only survive and thrive in a world in which truth is absolute and sacrosanct. A world in which the rights of individuals rest untouchably above “government” control. A world in which lies, deceit, theft and skullduggery cannot slip past your notice.

That is far from the reality of our world today.

In today’s world, those of us who are awake are battle weary from the constant assault coming from the narrative shapers of the shape-shifting left—a narrative that is built on lies, sleight of hand, deception, and subterfuge.

Can we benefit by having an “information force field” based on truth—interposed between us and the maelstrom of deception—in the form of an Assistive Intelligence?

It is my firm belief not only that we can, but that we must have such tools; that having such powerful assistants acting faithfully in our service is the only way for humanity to thrive and survive, unless we all devolve back into an Amish style of life (which may happen anyway, whether by human folly in the form of nuclear Armageddon, success of the anti-human extinctionistas who brought us COVID-19, or by the inexorable forces of nature.)

The unrestricted use of Assistive Intelligence is one of a triumvirate of things that humanity richly deserves: (1) unconstrained use of Assistive Intelligence for our own benefit; (2) self-sovereignty in terms of unlimited energy production available at the point of demand without central control, without paying tribute to the Energy Barons, or depending on the “grid”; and (3) an non-dilutable, decentralized trusted currency—backed by energy—that is not under any government’s thumb and cannot be manipulated or monitored or controlled by any central authority.

With these three elements, a brand-new world awaits humanity: a thousand years of peace and prosperity can follow, once we all have these three elements at our disposal to free us from the debt- and energy- slave systems that have defined our existence for millennia.

More is coming from my desk on the topic of AI. I have been working on a seminal post, but the field of AI is moving so rapidly that it is taking me longer to digest it all. So far, nothing has shown me that my operating thesis is wrong; to the contrary, daily progress in AI seems to suggest I’m aiming in the right direction. Coming soon!

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