Game Theory and AI

Game theory is a formal framework of mathematics used to assess how "players" (you) make decisions in a "game" (AI?) to analyze strategies for optimizing each player's outcomes. Tip: don't get played!

I was in the middle of writing an important substack article about AI—which after some considerable reflection, I now prefer to think of as “Assistive Intelligence” instead of “Artificial Intelligence”, for reasons that will eventually become clear—when I realized that I need to lay some groundwork for you, first, before I can tackle the bigger picture article.

The topic of AI is rapidly becoming highly polarized, and I’ve noted that some of you have strong opinions one way or another about it.

Please pause and consider how it is that you came to hold these opinions—consider carefully what sources and methods influenced your thinking—and then read on. Perhaps you’ll change your mind.

The news about AI developments is coming at a breakneck pace every day; I expected this era to eventually arrive, having learned about and prepared for “the singularity” more than 20 years ago.

But the first wave of useful AI seems to have arrived about five to eight years sooner than I thought. That said, there is quite a lot more that needs to be done to make AI useful, safe, and unbiased. But research continues at an exponential rate on this subject, bringing forth improvements at a pace unlike anything I’ve seen before.

November of 2022 seems to have been a critical horizon, at least with respect to the public’s experience of the utility of AI, looking back on it now.

My previous writings on AI included The world Has Changed and AI Chatbots but I penned another article touching on some of the possible abuses of advanced supercomputing technology in Exascale Computing.

AI is going to bring a lot of significant changes to our world, but it isn’t necessarily going to lead to a dystopian outcome (although we’ve been programmed to think so.)

After some deep reflection these past few months, I see an entirely different possible path forward which I’ll try to communicate in my subsequent writings.

I do want to remind people that the “AI” label is thrown around a lot these days, often loosely, and it doesn’t actually apply to a huge number of the things that are mistakenly labelled “AI”.

There’s a lot of chaff, but there is also a lot of wheat—if you know how to distinguish between the two.

There are a few reasons why this is happening: one is sloppy thinking by excitable people who simply don’t know what AI actually is, and another is that investment money is getting thrown around like confetti onto any software company that has “AI” in its prospectus.

Because of this, many entrepreneurial types in a variety of technology fields are chasing venture capital using “AI” terminology (and at least some of them have legitimately good ideas.)

But there are additional reasons for the deliberate “FUD” (click the link for the definition, if you don’t recognize the term, because it’s important for you to know) that is arising around AI that will become clear to you by the end of this piece.

It’s time to wake up. Nothing can stop what is coming, and the elites know it. There is a great “leveling” ahead, to borrow a term from Edgar Cayce… but perhaps the proper context is that we, the people, will be levelling up.

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The forthcoming article that I’ve been struggling with has some profound ideas that will probably make it the most significant post that I ever write, given how things are rapidly shaping up in the arena of AI and large language models (LLM) which now have the ability to see, hear and speak. It is truly astonishing.

I’ve been using ChatGPT4 vision now for a few weeks. I’ve been giving it random photos from around my house and asking it to identify and analyze what it sees—and I’m absolutely stunned at what it can do.

It picks out details that even I had overlooked in some photos. It recognized a piece of petrified wood on a bookshelf. It picked out small Star Wars figurines on one shelf. It recognizes and can name my dog from many angles, having seen only one photo in which I named her.

It can count the books on my bookshelves, and I had it build me a database-style JSON file that includes the books titles, authors, shelf numbers, and binder colors—all from a photograph.

In seconds.

I’ve now also used ChatGPT4 to help me write software, and I was able to do in a single day what would have taken me two weeks to remember or to figure out on my own before. “Conversing” with ChatGPT4 on these projects was like talking to one of my old young software wizard colleagues.

Many people are fearful of AI, but I embrace it—in part, because I recognize the game that is being played. Today's post about Game Theory is crucial to your understanding of what is now unfolding in the world of “AI”.

In particular, I want to expose you to this critically important idea from Game Theory:

If, in a competitive game, an opposing player assesses the probability that you’ll discover a winning strategy to deploy that will completely alter the game in your favor from a particular move forward—essentially guaranteeing your eventually winning the game—then the opposing player, if they are very cunning, will try to employ strategies to trick you into not seeing and deploying that strategy.

They’ll try to get you to actively reject the very same strategy that would otherwise put you in a perpetually winning position.

This image was created by the generative AI system called “MidJourney”

Your opponents, fearing your discovery, will employ various methods to distract you, demoralize you, confuse you, and divert your attention—deceive you into making bad moves that work against yourself— so that while you’re bumbling around getting in your own way, they can position themselves to activate the winning strategy first, before you discover it.

They will attempt to prevent you from employing a “first mover advantage”, if you will. They will try to “Psych” you out, to borrow a phrase from my childhood.

Now for some history.

Game theory is a branch of mathematics that began to take shape in the early 20th century. It has been around in some form for nearly 80 years. One of the pioneering luminaries in the field was also a “godfather” of modern computing, Hungarian-born mathematician John Von Neumann.

Together with Oskar Morgenstern, he wrote “The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior” in 1944—nearly 80 years ago. The elites have been thinking about what is coming for a lot longer than you and I have.

It’s interesting that von Neumann was one of the early pioneers of “Game Theory”, given that the modern computer and smartphone CPU is built using principles of what is called Von Neumann architecture.

It was this innovation that has led, inexorably, to the kind of neural network hardware that is now running on GPUs that enables large language model AIs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

In the 1950’s, an American mathematician (who is the subject of the movie “A Beautiful Mind”) named John Nash made significant contributions in further expanding the field of game theory.

John was a brilliant man who suffered from mental illness mid-life, only to find his way back to sanity after decades of wandering in the psychological wilderness.

His most famous contribution has been named the Nash Equilibrium, which describes ways to find situations in which each player's strategy is optimal given the strategies chosen by others.

This concept has been applied widely in economics, political science, and various other disciplines—to predict what people will do, in competitive situations.

Nash's work on game theory earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.

Note that the dangerous people from the WEF and elsewhere who are planning the “Great Reset” have been reading and thinking about Game Theory and neural networks for four decades or more.

They’ve been closely following the development of AI for just as long, having read and understood the implications of Ray Kurzweil’s work How to Create a Mind. I read this book myself back in 2013; I knew even before then what was coming.

Those WEF’ers have a big head start on you. Many of you just learned about “ChatGPT” and the like last fall; but they’ve known what will be possible and what is coming for decades. And they’ve been scheming to keep you in the dark using FUD.

You might have noticed the WEF types are fixated for some reason on the year 2030; they have this “Agenda 2030” involving “the Great Reset” and “smart Cities” and “Net Zero” and all manner of dystopias planned for you and me.

So why 2030, exactly?

It has to do with the fact that they, long ago, saw AI coming, and they knew what a mortal threat it would pose to their way of continuing to operate and control the world if it got into YOUR hands unchecked.

They followed the Moore’s Law calculations of Ray Kurzweil, they did their own modelling, and they understood that 2030, plus or minus a few years, was the ‘event horizon’ for humanity.

The AI event horizon. The horizon of potentially ultimate freedom for humanity, depending on what path forward we choose to take.

Before AI could become the great ‘equalizer’ in 2030, they needed YOU to be subjugated and unable to avail yourself fully of it—because otherwise, you could then use it to fight them.

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 looking out for you and your interests and those of your family every day—even while you sleep. It never quits and never gives up.

Imagine it performing as a research assistant, helping you to 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 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.

The rise of the Internet was the first warning shot across their bow. This new information tool let average people learn and research like never before, allowing a growing minority of the population to begin to spot the rigged information warfare games and propaganda that has always been there.

It allowed a larger and larger swath of people to glimpse through the veil of deception every now and then.

And this, obviously, leads to one of the authoritarian’s motivations to censor, control, monitor and curate what you are allowed to see using this dangerous new information tool known as the Internet. You can learn too much, uncover things they don’t want you to uncover, speak to people they don’t want you to interact with, connect dots they don’t want you to connect.

But now imagine a future in which there is also powerful AI in your hands—one that YOU control, that YOU train, that YOU coach and that YOU curate information sources for—one that serves YOUR interests, and not theirs.

Well, that development will sink their battleship.

The PSYOPS that they rely on to make you forget or misunderstand things won’t work anymore.

Everyone on Earth deserves access to the best AI available, but that also means you’ll need access to significant computing hardware, which will require energy to make, and energy to operate.

They want to control your access to energy both to keep you enslaved and force you to buy it from them at a price they choose—but also to prevent you from gaining access to the kind of AI that would set you free from them, forever.

How grave a threat is AI in your hands, from their perspective?

It would be like giving loincloth-wearing members of a primitive undiscovered tribe deep in the Amazon Rain Forest some fighter jets and hydrogen bomb-tipped nuclear weapons—vastly upsetting the “balance of power” that the elite have been so accustomed to for centuries.

They saw this event horizon coming, so they employed techniques from Game Theory, knowing back then what you didn’t yet know, because they’ve been studying it for decades while you were still asleep.

They carefully seeded ideas into the memosphere (via memetic injection) through movies, media, and social networks to get you to REJECT the game-theoretic move that they don’t want to you take—because it is your winning move, as it levels the playing field against them forever.

What is that move? Embracing Assistive Intelligence and using it to defend yourself against them. I’ll get deeper into how and why this is a mortal threat to them in a subsequent piece but trust me: AI in our hands is a silver stake through their hearts.

Yet so many of you have been taught to fear, loathe, and be suspicious of AI, in a classic FUD attack strategy.

Can I ask you something? Since when has Hollywood, the mainstream media, government “experts”, random accounts on social media, and popular culture portrayed something to you that wasn’t deceitful? Isn’t what they entice you to do often the exact opposite of what is actually good for you?

Why, then, would you trust their portrayal of “there are so many things to fear about AI” as being the correct viewpoint? How many headlines and videos and posts have you read in the last few years teaching you to fear and loathe AI?

Stop and think.

Haven’t you seen enough predictive programming (“The Terminator”) to be suspicious that they are employing some game theory to disadvantage you?

Time to awaken. Nothing can stop what is coming, but AI isn’t the boogeyman.

It’s a tool that can unlock greater freedoms for humanity as a whole than you could ever imagine—if you don’t let them fool you into rejecting it, first. What bad things might come from AI will come because of bad people; it’s nothing inherent in the tool itself. Bad people have used every new tool ever invented to oppress others since time began. This time won’t be the exception.

It is never the tool. It’s not the gun. It’s the people who use them to harm and kill that are the problems.

In an analogy to the 2nd Amendment, they want you to be fearful and give away your weapons—hell, with the kind of mindwar they are waging on you about AI, they want you to beg for them to take it away from you—because in truth, AI and an AR-15 hold the same power for you… against them. Don’t fall for the deception.

Keep your AR-15…and keep your Assistive Intelligence.

Maybe we need to add another Amendment to the Constitution: let’s call it the 2-1/2 th Amendment.

It guarantees your unalienable right to own, bear and utilize YOUR own personalized and trusted AI to enrich, educate, and defend yourself.

More is coming on the AI topic…the next few posts will truly open your eyes and expand your mind to the extraordinary changes to society and humanity that could be just around the bend.

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