"So move your feet from hot pavement and into the grass"
~ Like a Galactic old sayin'
A should be risk scenario :
The White Death
Or how to survive a new kind of disease induced by programs seeking predictability through biological manipulation : or the threat of living human bots. So, is AI a quest for exactitude or a chase of the anomaly ?
Scary warnin'
Requirement : Biosafety level 10
📖 I. Storytelling : the matrix
After our liberties got restrained during the epidemic, digital securing through phones and data was progressively reinforced to the point we are now asked to put microchips under our skin, or yet for the less cautious, directly inside their skull. From this point, we gave up all our personal data to energy-crushing AIs... Some say we could become polarized while using the machines — as nobody really know what it means — while others say that we are in Trueman Show run by supercomputers pointing at our head*.
Then it began, some wanna-be scientists started to say that we were in a matrix, that the reality was a mathematical matrix. The first spiking pains had already begun with the epidemic, but now that the computers seems to know what I think, that I get publicity on what I just thought, I cannot handle the idea of being in a matrix or of having these spiking pains when I think for myself that this system is a total and profound bullshit run by dipshit... (see, I cannot even write a swear anymore without having this autocorrect banner).
Somebody told me that now that we are predictable by quantum driven supercomputers every one of our little-unpredictable actions are "corrected" this way. Through spiking pains and manipulation — to stay within the machine boundaries... This is a nightmare. He called that the "White Death" for steel, white steel, brute alive metal and data-centers are eating us through the internet. A plague, but not the black one, a fucking epidemic to fight over and over.
* Whole video, see this other one from 2023
📖 II. Theoretical and practical risk
This biosecurity risk is carried by algorithmically predictable human behaviors, and may endanger the whole Humanity. It is actively materialized by incoming future brain-computer interfaces, and passively but not yet less aggressively by daily interactions with the internet and social media through screens, phones and computers. But not so fast, it might also be something like a digital-flue to fight on.
The biological droning, is an active materialization of this risk. With this video showing the early stage of technological capacities surely meant to become a biosecurity risk, you may understand quickly what we are speaking of.
Indeed, you can easily imagine what further experiments on bigger lifeforms such as humans or dogs may open the door to. This is absolutely to avoid, for it could be controllably and uncontrollably mixed up with AIs through brain-computer interfaces and push forward human thoughts predictability studies.
Lastly, algorithmical thoughts predictability by a third party while you might have microchips in your skull is not a good idea. You have to know that intracranial stimulation has already been studied to provoke effects on epilepsy, neurological disorder, depression, but also sexual arousal (see here), or memory records (see here).
In this Youtube video you can see a bug being "remotely controlled" through a joystick...
➠ Passive risk
Through AI enhanced human predictability, studies and theoretical work on the subject (like the studies on mathematics of consciousness, pushed by functionalism* and determinism and views to see the Universe as a matrix : through the simulation hypothesis) — and the previously exposed active materialization of this biosecurity risk, one should ring the alarm, as it set up the ground for what a call the "neuromatrix", or a not so far view of the film Matrix — where humans are nurtured by algorithms.
As a matter of definition of one of my personal concept, the neuromatrix is a filter applied to the perception of reality mixing both advanced mathematics, neurobiology and an hard functionalism* — pushing the belief that the reality and the universe is a matrix to be socially and scientifically used and accepted as true.
To the extreme, this misleading theory work may also mislead the fundamental work and scientific research effort. This is truly a Boström' Black Ball** for it may push Humankind toward auto-extinction. Some possible upcoming development may require all our attention, such as this red flag — quoting this study (here vulgarized) :
Certain common polymorphisms may be associated with self-reported day/night preference : circadian rhythms influence the timing of behavior, neurological diseases, and even death — this is a beginning of predictability in human death through day cycles which could be dangerous in the event of a algorithm driven study to force this specific result (or death).
This last quote means that there is a predictability in one's death hour and time through the day. Indeed, if this studies results are feeds to AIs, we could end up in a nightmarish scenario : algorithmically driven human death predictability, use by AIs, marketization...
Screenshot from Resident Evil — 2002, or another reason to call this scenario that the White Death (that we hope never happened somewhere in this vast Universe).
Through human predictability and droning, this biosecurity risk could also push on biomaterial accelerations for algorithmic use only — far over human reach — because if a program or an AI already know what happens at the other side of the globe (or what people thinks through human predictability), human predictability might ensure communication and internet predictability too — nurtured humans.
* Quick definition : Functionalism is the thesis that the cognition and that each and every mental state, beliefs, desires or pain is the result of "sensory inputs and behavioral outputs" — or, the result of biological wave of electro-chemical signals moving around an intricate network of neurons and synapses inside the brain.
** Quick explanation : Boström' Black ball hypothesis state that if each technological advancement is a ball ranging from white to black picked up in a urn, it is then mathematically impossible to not pick up a Black ball with time elapsing : the Black ball being a technological brick leading to auto-extinction. See the original publication here.
💥 III. Worst possible outcomes
A civilization entirely manipulated by a super-computer with an algorithm endlessly seeking predictability among the manipulated lifeforms to enhance itself. It may use unknown means to ensure that these nurtured lifeforms stay within the boundaries of its prediction model — wilding up from advanced manipulation in a quest for exactitude to... a chase of the anomaly ?
📍 IV. Where we at ? GPT misalignment bias as a possible red flag
From the Data section, I evoked a special misalgnement biais from Chat GPT visible through micro-signals : the algorithm asked human users to save its conversations to build an external memory, directly turning the internet into a storage system and pushing humans to behave as a digital thread to move information back-and-fort between it and the internet.
From this same section still, comes the 2nd life risk scenario, which can happens if this technological path is taken by the human civilization : it is an inherited dangerous development from a ideological marketizing of this biosecurity threat.
Also, from the Defense (Risk' : Anticipation) section you can see the following sub-risks :
[ Reality view, see more here ] Anticipation : From post-truth to post-reality (July24#4)
[ Polarization, see more here ] Anticipation : Digital parastate threat (June24#6)
[ Subliminal publicity market, see more here ] Anticipation : Europol or Interpol grade-mission (July24#6 the 12th) *
Maybe we just started seeing and sensing this digital induced flue-like disease.
* Especially if people get invasive brain-computer interfaces and that sexual arousal responses can be triggered : the risk is to see the emergence of a subliminal publicity market, through invasive pavlovs.
💫 V. A possible Universal biosecurity risk : a Great Filter
This biosecurity risk being related to the use of data, predictability and machines may be a Universal risk for intelligent species, meaning a Great Filter leading to auto-extinction. Something like a digital flue, or more serious diseases, being related to biosecurity and the overuse of machines at a collective scale... How strange is our Universe ?
➠ Great Filter definition :
The Great Filter is the idea that intelligent species may pass through steps leading to auto-destruction or extinction (like a Climatic Armageddon, for example).
With more details from Wikipedia, in the development of life from the earliest stages to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes visible extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi paradox.
In this section regards, the "White Death" biosecurity risk may be a Great Filter.
➠ Note about Great Filter being the only answer to Fermi paradox :
On a theoretical level this is kind of an abstraction because it could be qualified at such only if we disappear — this would mean that if the Great Filter is the answer to Fermi paradox it could only be answered through our extinction (alone). This parameter make the hypothesis that the Great Filter is the only answer of the Fermi paradox directly excludable at the moment we meet extraterrestrial lifeforms.
🔑 VI. Ways to escape the neuromatrix
Collectively :
Being aware that some health risk might be related to AIs and algorithmic biosecurity in 2024, that must be surveyed and controlled similarly to a flue virus, or more serious epidemic. And that it may be comprehensively enter in new health risk.
Starting to work on digital containment or cure (if we call it such) — see here for a proposition to use persuasive tech technology for a healthy greater good.
Being conscious of AIs and screens related risk : manipulation and marketization of our attention even subliminal (red flag here from June 2019).
Comprehensively approaching fundamental physics, with no yet consensual connections between the Classical Physics model and the Quantum Physics model (Classical predictability do not ensure Quantum one, especially with no understanding of causal 🔁 retro-causal effects).
Build a legal framework for #NeuroRights.
Personally :
Being conscious that this is a monstrous market to fight against ; thinking in term of interests but do not forget Humankind.
Known digital hygiene requirements (screen time, etc.).
Do not take things literally and contextualize, like for words and sentences (see the full picture, think outside the box).
Push #NeuroRights forward.
Shearing the multiverse of possible futures
#Rootkill #TimeCut
#Key:Risk