Jessica Bennet on page A21 of today's New York Times writes that "the public broadcasting of our personal traumas ... now has a name: trauma dumping." So the open-source AI programmer Mentifex is merely bloviating his own word salad under the pretext of writing serious columns right up there with Mike Royko, Jack Anderson and Wayne Madsen? So the daily staff meetings at major newspapers do not start with, "How big is our news hole and what word is there of Mentifex?" So messages about the Mindmaker are not left in dead-drops marked with chalk or a similar secret sign? And Denchy heads of national secret services do not discuss Mentifex in Faraday cages?
What about the Writers Workshop at Iowa? Don't they use "The Art of the Meme" -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007ZI66FS -- to infect the minds of great future writers with the memetic techniques that Mentifex invented? No, apparently Mentifex is just a quack, another netkook, one more crackpot disguising his severe mental trauma as some kind of Prog column to be consumed daily by schizo coders and slam-dance TikTokkers. But can't Mentifex serve as a case-study among psychiatrists and court-appointed psychological evaluators? Imagine a shrink diagnosing a patient before ordering electroconvulsive shock therapy or involuntary commitment: "It sounds to me like you may have a Mentifex Complex, a mistaken notion that you have created a whole new civilization of thinking robots. You do not have borderline personality disorder, but rather you have Vesuvian thought-eruptions and delusions of grandeur. Your score on the Mentifex Multiphasic Personality Inventory is off the charts. It is a wonder that you have not been locked up for years already -- or are you perhaps an escapee? I think that we are going to take you off sodium nitrite and put you on Progasil or Ectoprog or one of the other ego-deflators. We are especially concerned about your claims to be an expert AI Mind Maintainer and of being just as crazy as Mentifex. Nobody is as crazy as Mentifex." http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NRQ3HVW -- is the GoFundMentifex page at Amazon. Instead of a Mentifex T-Shirt, your donation gets you an instantly rare, printed paperback copy of a Latin AI book with a unique publication date and with a Skynet-high potential for investment appreciation among rare-book dealers and eBay sellers. Chinese university graduates working to overthrow Xi Jinping: 96794 95849 61145 01297 27305 16775 18327 39824 41251 59914 44890 19530 46331 96073 45490 64949 98166 50103 76789 97434 19217 17397 14766 60526 28618 49332 15990 50579 33644 24635 29376 45639 46397 11949 84179 39624 63090 19454 81749 30034 ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tf779315a3d50e1cd-M668ae8bb3639eadfa3efb514 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
