the danger of cheap information [[video game philosophy]] …

!time:02:10 An AI is born from the "primordial soup of ... American discipline and morality you invoke so often". This reminds me of Open AI trained on the entire text of the Internet up to 2019. The MSG AI seeks to control the flow of information on the Net. Why?

!time:06:05 genes are amorally selected by nature but memes are selected with human intention through the moral and social frameworks of humanity.

!time:06:23 the cheapness of information, its volume and triviality act as a kind of denial of service attack preventing humanity from providing a selection process through which memes can evolve. bitcoin/crypto solves this by putting a cost on information

!time:06:49 before the internet we had institutional curators like media that filtered information through their biases. the internet destroyed the filters. we got access to unbiased information by trading away the filters needed to process it. what's required is a synthesis

!time:07:56 what is the solution? The MGS AI proposes curating information in an unbiased way to "create context". How can the AI know what is unbiased? Is it possible to have unbiased information? Does allowing an AI to curate information compromise human freedom?

!time:08:56 the AI case for controlling information. Human freedom leads to destructive contradictions: Investing money in weapons of war to destroy, rights of criminals are more important than the privacy of victims, animal welfare over human welfare, be nice but out compete, believe in yourself but only a few will succeed

!time:09:51 MGS AI argues that human freedom leads to false rhetoric designed to protect each other from the Truth. Truth threatens our physical and emotional well-being so freedom actually undermines Truth 

!time:10:53 the abortion debate is an example of our desire to cling to ideological structure without considering a more complicated truth to the point where we will actually kill the outgroup before reflecting. We make "low-resolution assumptions" to signal our identities and ostracize the outgroup

!time:11:34 MGS AI on humans hiding in filter bubbles: "No one is invalidated, but no one is right." In such filter bubbles no natural selection of ideas is possible. "The world will be awash in truth."

!time:12:09 "the ideological possessed would rather kill millions for their political ideology rather than consider the arguments of their political opponents" Is this the inevitable consequence of Human Freedom and our propensity to hide from the truth in Filter bubbles?

!time:13:17 the MGS AI makes the case for stopping the destruction of runaway ideology by filtering out the unnecessary and trivial information to reboot memetic natural selection and prevent ideological destuction

!time:13:49 Metal Gear Solid's warning was from 2001. There does not seem to be a solution. One suggestion is to strengthen our morality. I've written before about a kind of Intellectual Honor Culture that shames Intellectual Dishonesty

!time:14:25 Humans are imperfect so that we will make mistakes. Tribalism and call out culture makes sure that we amplify each others' mistakes. The broadcast power of the internet allows an uncommon mistake to be experienced by the entire world: see police shootings.

!time:15:20 MGS AI: We abuse Freedom of Speech to attack people rather than ideas a censorship regime must be setup "for their own good".

Compare this with Kojima's latest game Death Stranding, which was an attempt to cultivate community, solidarity, and altruism "online"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKdv-IeAv2g

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