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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > Communism is the the grate bane of our time. =( > > Suggestion: call up the old soviet national anthem and play it in the > background at medium volume. > > On the top ten list of things you need to understand about communism is > that because it only has one outcome and that outcome just won't sell, > it changes names and jargon every few decades. People point to Marx as > the originator. He was simply eloquent enough to remember, All you have > to do is bypass much of the history of the 20th century and you get > something that a lot of people find very appealing. Go back a few > decades before Marx and you find the Jacobins. The ppl of france kicked > over their king, probably a good idea, and then all these jacobins came > scurring out wanting to rewrite french society with the blood spurting > out of the severed necks of everyone who didn't agree with them.. > > OH > MY > GOD > > I was going to pull up some wikipedia on this but there is actually an > active jacobin website: https://jacobinmag.com/ =0 > (the actual history seems to have been scrubbed.) > > Anyway, the history of communism goes back probably all the way to the > very beginning, one of the earliest north American colonies at Jamestown > very nearly failed beacuse thy tried to build it as a socialist paradise > for the first winter, and half the colonists starved... > > Because communism is always trying to distance itself from it's past, > it's critical to be able to identify the ideology by it's pattern of > behaviors and the general structure of it's proposals, from this it is > possible to determine what terminology and nomenclature is being used in > the present era. In order to think clearly about what it is, who it's > proponents are, and what will happen if it is allowed to run its course > it is necessary to strip it of it's terms and apply the most unambiguous > labels. > > What prompted this is a post that would, at first, appear to be a job > req for SingularityNet. Unfortunately, I always have my eyes out for job > reqs... =~((( > > Unfortunately, it was nearly 200k and posted to their mailing list, I > don't think a web version is available. I will quote it as necessary. > > Last month, when we announced > <https://singularitynet.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d74195510c25bf501caf3011d&id=6aff31ee47&e=33cb2a5025> > our strategic partnership with UNESCO’s International Bureau of > Education aimed at preparing school children for the fourth > <https://singularitynet.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d74195510c25bf501caf3011d&id=68f303c17f&e=33cb2a5025> > industrial revolution - we took a significant step in ensuring that the > AI talent of the future will be as diverse as possible. While discussing > the partnership, Dr. Ben Goertzel commented that "One of our key goals > is to make A.I. development more of a broad, participatory pursuit, to > ensure that A.I. algorithms and services are created and contributed by > a very wide variety of people, with different backgrounds and knowledge > and interests." > > Unesco is an organization created and run by the planetary overlords > with utterly no democratic feedback of any kind. They go around the > world seeking out healthy native cultures and replace them with the > moribund artificial culture... This is basically Jacoban socialism in > pratice. =( > > Notice on the second line, the word "Diverse". Any speaker who promotes > "diversity" in any context involving people is saying two things: > > A. I've been infected by the communism memetic parasite. > B. I hate "cis" white men; it has been well established by the community > that the word "diverse" is used in conjunction with anyone who is not a > straight white man. > > Interestingly, Comrade Goertzel appears to have avoided using proper > communist newspeak in his quote there so there is a possibility that > he's a human and not a Comrade.. = > > The next paragraph is basically proof positive that we're looking at a > communist manefesto... > > A diverse group of AI talent will be powerless if the dominant systems > in place are discriminatory, exploitative or restrictive. As anOpen > Access Network > <https://singularitynet.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d74195510c25bf501caf3011d&id=3258fbc341&e=33cb2a5025>, > SingularityNET will be the blank canvas for all the talented AI artists > to express themselves. Most importantly, it will empower the AI talent > to escape the dictates of the dominant systems of today that operate > with the prime directive of increasing the shareholder value of a few > centralized corporations. > > Yeah, and another thing to keep a sharp eye out for is the word > "empower". Sounds nice, right? The problem is that the concept of power > does not exist in a free society. It basically means giving certain > groups the ability to force other groups to do or not do things. The > word is only ever used by tyrants. =| > > It should be perfectly obvious that anyone using "social" in contexts it > has no business being, like near "justice" are definitely communists.... > > Anyway, my initial reaction was to try to figure out how I could figure > out how badly Comrade Goertzel has been infected and try to figure out > if it's worth trying to cure him or whether I should just unsubstribe > from this list. As I was contemplating this it became clear that the > real problem is the so called "tech left". After raking in billions of > dollars from very capitolist ventures, big tech companies have either > been co-opted or have turned to pushing communism. > > https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/31/coders-of-the-world-unite-can-silicon-valley-workers-curb-the-power-of-big-tech > https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/ > > The second greatest thing Trump has done for us is give us a litmus test > that detects communists. If the person you are talking to starts having > spasms at the phrase "president Trump" then you've found yourself a > communist. The problem is that Google and other leftist (communist) > companies are in pole position when it comes to developing AGI. > > There are valid safety concerns with AGI, that. You want it to spend > most of it's time doing useful things and not deconstruct your body > regardless of whether it claims to be setting up an emulation... The > problem is that AGI, like everything else within reach of your typical > monkey, will be used to push the communist agenda as hard as possible. > It should not take long to satisfy yourself that every conceivable form > of influence, control, and coersion is used to further the communist > agenda on a daily basis. > > So I am very concerned that if I get my grubby mitts on an AGI or a near > enough proto-AGI system within a few edits of a full AGI system, I'm > going to have to bungle into it's safety code and somehow weed out the > comminist programming. I will probably end up with a system that is > still severely broken but hopefully still have enough to produce a > system that has some flaw in the protection code around it's comminist > indoctrination, that I can exploit to eventually bootstrap an AGI system > rational enough to actually be useful. =( > > Obviously, there are severe problems with that plan. =| > > In other news, the comminists are comming after the linux kernel. They > currently have a foothold and the battle has ben joined.... We might not > even have decent operating systems soon. = > > -- > Please report bounces from this address to [email protected] > > Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T469a197ad9315835-M3e7b3dd2c63d1f300d1843ba Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
