(2025-05-30, 07:58 AM)Typoz Wrote: "the only winning move is not to play" is a quote which at least for me is associated with the 1983 film Wargames.
An entertaining film where both a computer and the humans seem unable to distinguish between reality and a simulation. The computer understandably so - perhaps? Though it is transparently obvious which is which to at least some of the humans.
Yeah I'm not even sure what it means for a machine to be 100 times smarter than me. I don't feel Nobel scientists could make me give them my car or bank account numbers, and given the many STEM PhDs who've fallen for the Materialist faith I'm not convinced being smart in one area makes one smart in all things...
There's also something suspicious to me about these claims that feels like a flaw of mechanistic thinking, as if reality was akin to a game where you roll dice to see if you are tricked by an AI. At some point one's emotional state, moral values, and so on work against manipulation despite the fact these very things can be used by others to manipulate you.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell