My sincere apologies for my earlier post.
While I am not quite sure what happened yesterday I can give a little background to what I said.
15 years ago I had a crazy idea about societal shift, something that is only now becoming mainstream conversation.
While I had had an exceptionally good private school education before the age of 17, I have no education after 17, I didn’t know what to do with this idea.
I have ‘autistic traits’ and am constantly distracted by patterns.
The idea stemmed from realizing that while clearly almost the entire of society was against child pornography it was still stuck in the past, unable to modify it’s core values of ‘free speech’ to adjust to a new reality, even to protect it’s own children.
I was young and idealistic, I looked forward to when my kids grew up, realised society would have to change, and it has, albeit at a glacial pace.
Yet I also realised that every country would also have this adjustment to make on their own issues, and that these trains, on the wrong track, were only ever going to speed up.
I tried to raise awareness, tried to create a platform to explain but I was no more than a joke.
So I did what I was brought up to do if I was to see something that was a serious threat to ‘national security’. I wrote down my thinking in a document entitled “What is life without REASON and logic”, walked onto the SAS base in Hereford past armed guards to the gatehouse and delivered it addressed to the ‘Camp Commander’. I then handed in my hard-drives to the local police station declaring “I don’t know what’s on there and explained what I had done at the SAS base.”
Surely I though, with all their compute they would be able to unravel the confused message I was trying to convey, this form of ‘Emergent Intelligence’?
I was told I was lucky I wasn’t shot and my hard drives were returned 6 months later apparently not looked at at all, I saw a psychologist once, refused medication because I knew there was nothing wrong with me, and that was it.
I was effectively branded a crazy for talking about the things people on this forum now talk about all the time, for raising concerns people are starting to raise today.
I went to China, came back in the pandemic and then prepared for o1 to be released. Something I saw as a ‘paradigm shift’. I (by chance?) moved back to a town, labelled “The home of the black swan”, for a Black Swan Event.
Well the rest of the story has rather tumbled out on this forum.
I still think that most don’t correctly identify the issue here. The question on this forum, again cut into a track headed in the wrong direction, is how close AI is to us. Of course, it is intelligence from a perspective… A ‘chain of thought’ from a fixed perspective.
What I see is the loss of Human Agency… Without it the links that bind humanity are lost… Indeed in the current world these links really need to transcend countries, which was the point of my journey. I defined this then as ‘People First’… Yes, the irony isn’t lost on me.
Now this has been gnawing at the back of my mind for 15 years like a bad horror movie. All the software I have written since has been based on binary trees, the simplest fractal to try and explain this inevitability to people, to define a way to view the core of the choices we make.
I waited for Strawberry o1 to come out and re-posted on the OpenAI forum, honestly expecting more than a couple of people to get what I was talking about and to be able to talk through these issues.
Now I guess I go back to being the joke, to silently observe while the world sniggers.
At least I guess now, everyone knows why they are laughing.
My apologies for breaking this thread, I think it would have been useful.
(I should note that as far as I know besides a huge collection of low level machine code, browsing data of 1,000s of amazing topics on Wiki on AI, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, a bunch of Ethical Questions etc and a collection of virii that I had fun reverse engineering there was nothing bad on my hard drives
I just looked into the narcissists mirror a little earlier than most)
Clipping (distortion at high volumes) → Lower mic gain/input sensitivity.
Use a high-quality mic (USB/XLR) with lossless audio formats (WAV/PCM).
