Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 6
The goal now for corporations is to replace the entire creator economy with automated slop and take all the creator revenue for themselves.
The goal of every online platform is to make it impossible for anyone's content to gain visibility unless you pay them a toll. Online platforms are visibility-toll-collectors, and without visibility no business can function. So every business in the world is a hostage to online toll collectors like Google, Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify. Eventually these platforms will give no free visibility to anyone. It will be entirely pay-to-play. You won't even show up on Google unless you pay them. That's where we are headed.
Spinoza is one of the most accurate Western philosophers.
This is gold:
It's nice to hear Cal Newport is not fooled by all the AGI hype. Cal Newport is exactly correct here. This is high quality rationality, cutting through Tech Bro sci-fi techno-capitalist fantasies.
Tech Bros are spiritually bankrupt man-children using rationality to jerk each other off, take your money and enslave your children.
This is how science really works:
Again: Survival is your master! You are not smarter than survival.
This lady offers an interesting critique of how post-modernism has infested psychology.
But, is her critique from above or from below? Who is right? Is this a higher or lower perspective? You decide.
Intelligence is not measured by an IQ test, it is measured by your ability to comprehend God, epistemology, and metaphysics. To deeply question all assumptions, paradigms, perspectives, and frames. To think holistically, abstractly, analogically, intuitively, mystically, relativistically, existentially. To be infinitely openminded and mentally flexible. To be able to understand all perspectives. The more diverse perspectives you can understand the more intelligent you are. Intelligence is the ability to avoid self-deception and outsmart Maya. IQ tests are utterly inadequate at measuring intelligence. Intelligence is not your ability to solve a word or math puzzle. Intelligence is your ability to comprehend Yourself and Reality. No amount of multiple choice word puzzles can measure this. And no, computers are not intelligent no matter how much the Tech Bros hype up AI. AI is faking intelligence and most people can't tell the difference.
Robots are definitely going to be a big game-changer, however, that is still a decade away and in the meantime we will have plenty of robot scams along the way as all the early robots will fail to live up to the hype and marketing BS.
There is a very realistic dystopian scenario here where most of the robots in the world will not be autonomous (because there will not be AGI) but just tele-operated by sweatshop labor from poor 3rd world countries. It looks likely that every rich household in America will have a robot who is actually just a poor teen wage slave from Bangladesh. I find this far more realistic than fully AGI robots.
Making the robot hardware is the easy part. Making the software is going to be almost impossible. So prepare yourself for robot scams.
Tech Bros have reinvented slavery while waxing poetic about techno-utopia. Now that's some good Maya!