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date: 2025-10-14
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description: "Its not the super intelligence, but the super isolation I'm concerned about."
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# image: ""
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lastmod: 2025-10-14
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showTableOfContents: false
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tags: ["ai","culture"]
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title: "The Ai Singularity No One Saw Coming"
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type: "post"
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## Artificial Super Isolation
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My biggest worry with AI is not it gaining sentience. I'm not worried about a _Terminator_ type story line. But I am
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worried about the power it can exert on us as _singular_ individuals.
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### Hallucinations Welcome
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A super intelligent AI needs to be able to reason. Not the "reasoning" models AI companies are shilling. I mean,
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actually think abstractly. Large Language Models work on statistics. It doesn't take many prompts to realize it. They
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cannot even [consider their own output](https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/) as they generate it.
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I feel that the current AI cycle is starting to wane, like the top end of a hockey-stick-shaped graph. But the current
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capabilities are more than enough to create a sort of real life matrix.
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### Sora is Terrifying
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I don't think words can quite capture the experience of watching AI generated tik-toks. The humans depicted in these 10
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second videos feel cold. They have climbed out of the uncanny valley. Gone are the days of six-fingered hands. Yet, I
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feel no emotional contagion from these probable pixels. I stare emptily. My lack of reaction to a very normal looking
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human doing a slightly abnormal thing startles me.
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But what got me to write this was the reaction of the creator. Or maybe more aptly, the initiator. Manager?
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A friend sent me some they made. In my estimation, they found them utterly entertaining.
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## Fascination Complication
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I remember running [one of the earliest image generators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion) on my laptop.
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ChatGPT hadn't yet launched. The market didn't depend on AI hype yet. Each image took at least a minute to generate.
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There was no fancy web UI. And, the images it made mostly sucked. Yet, I sat at my laptop (characteristically) for hours
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making loads of garbage images.
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I wasn't convinced at the time any if it was "art". But, its unbelievable when you first experience a computer do sort
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of "exactly" what you ask. It knows who John Cena is and how Hayao Miyazaki's art looks! Its an eager servant that never
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sleeps, never eats, [glazes](https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/glaze) you constantly. Its no wonder why one might
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find it enthralling!
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In my mind, the natural extension of the current landscape is AI generated social feeds. Sora is literally just an
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AI-video-only tik-tok. This worries me. I imagine the life of a teenager today: AI (revenge) porn, ChatGPT doing all
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of your homework, social feeds full of content with plummeting levels of authenticity. Luckily us grown ups know how to
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handle this technology responsibly and we just gotta worry about the children.
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In the U.S. I feel like commonly held values are eroding. Now, trusting institutions is naive. Citizen researchers with
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none of the skills to read past the abstract are a dime a dozen. AI feels like a multiplying factor to these issues. In
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the hands of most, its a tool for goofs. But in the hands of a few, its a tool for fabricating truth.
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## Escape Velocity
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[Previously](/content/posts/ai-hestiation-turning-around.md), I stated I'd give AI a fair shake. I committed to using AI
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for a year. I'm contemplating cutting that short. I think AI has made me dumber. I'm certainly more dependant on a $20
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subscription to do my job and less sure of myself. Perhaps we can have a healthy intermittent fasting culture with AI.
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I'm not sure.
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