Philosophy

The False Binary As AI continues to grow in capability and scale, the old science-fiction question raised in movies like Blade Runner no longer feels purely fictional. Before our eyes, we are witnessing AI grow convincing enough that many people are already seeing a ghost-in-the-machine, but common discourse rightfully declares these misinterpretations and overestimations of current AI abilities. The problem is not that we are critical about AI consciousness and its presence in today’s systems, but that we are critical through a lens that creates a false dichotomy to judge these systems by. ...

Part I – From Seed to Steam (Agricultural → Industrial) Preface: What follows is the first in a series of opinion piece essays that seek to apply dialectic materialism as a methodology to the modern goal and eventual implementation of AGI. It should be heavily noted that this is not a direct claim of truth, but simply the opinionated application of a historical philosophical methodology to modern trends and claims. This first piece is not linked heavily to studies, statistics, or other sources - it is, at present, simply a foundational introduction to the methodology. Even in this, the true scale of its mechanisms and applications are far more than what I could write here - and thus, this first essay is what I believe to be a bare minimum in what exactly the methodology spoken of is about, and how we can apply it in today’s coming world. It also does not rely on the time-scales of AGI being discovered, only that it is predicated on the idea that AGI becomes prolific and is capable of replacing human cognition and presence in the labor cycle. ...