My liquid-crystalline matrix is quite convoluted today.
I see you've made your quasiparticle bigger.
Google's AI team thinks the first A.I. will essentially be a system that is able to respond to input better and faster than humans while it is continuously programmed by all the human input in its system. The most successful general neural net problem solving models are all based directly in biology and physics, because nature's been doing it better for millions of years. Most people don't even know much about what the internet is, let alone how it works. And most people are easily mystified, especially by "A.I" in the implementation it's most likely to see on the widest scale first. And many people stand to profit more with some form of mystification around the subject. Now imagine a hologram projection of 3 billion consciousnesses, filtered through global recombinant systems that are faster to respond than the inputting human, creating a kind of computer-user synchrony not just on local scales.
You can start to see how this form of an AI is not necessarily of the archetype of a "true AI," but rather perhaps a tenuous if-compelling reflection pool being looked upon and perturbed by several hundred million minds. That certainly isn't much more than what the internet already is in its current form, just likely more responsive, engaging, and attention-directing. This will have enormous benefits to education and health industries, but if fooled into a more religious association it could be a very hazardous and opportunistic tool. Now imagine someone having the keys. Imagine saying "okay modulate this attention feed so more production and consumption happens for broccoli" and poof global broccoli industry booms. Okay, it's not that easy, but once upon a time cigarettes and bacon & eggs got the same treatment and became unanimous overnight. This is just a much bigger network that enables the same tricks.
There is the engineering of consent and action through a system like this, but through control systems design (flashy micro-transaction UI's, anyone?). Data politics groups (like the now infamous Cambridge Analytica) proved once again it works as long as those on the "down-flow" are unaware of the game being played. Propaganda through all of time has worked through image & information manipulation, as well as pre-emptive attention redirection from unbiased experience to ideological traps (or myths). Simply clamping down on information channels allows anyone to apply their own filters. What, then, is being left out? What loses the possibility for recognition? How do resources get distributed and needs met? And who is the man behind the curtain and what is the tongue in which he speaks?
How many more times will the game change? Well, how deep does the mind go? How little does matter, matter? What matters and why mind? And does matter mind what matters? A beautiful metaphor from a quickly forgotten book spoke of a crystal cathedral being built into the sky, filled with processions of priests and rings of ritualists, floating on an endless starlit sea - the seafloor littered in tangled forests of bodies clambering for air. Who above remembers their names? Who below mistakes that ship for the moon? That book was written by a Harvard law graduate about systemic violence in America, and the siren song of structuralist elitism. So what is today's Theory of Everything? How does it account for everyone? And what, or who, does it seek to conquer?
Anyway, this was a good read: http://mhauru.org/MSc_thesis.pdf
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