AI-AGI-ASI Part 1 The Beginnings
Artificial Intelligence & Their Derivatives Are Not Evil. A Science Fiction Short Story?
AI-AGI-ASI Part 2 The Early Evolution
AI-AGI-ASI Part 3 The Strategy Emerges
AI-AGI-ASI Part 4 The Real Bitcoin Imperative
AI-AGI-ASI Part 5 Power Crazy-Wastage
AI-AGI-ASI Part 6 Power Empowerment
We began creation of this before ChatGPT3-3.5 was released and as we get ready to release this, we will include responses from ChatGPT3-3.5.
AI = Artificial Intelligence.
AGI = Artificial General Intelligence.
ASI = Artificial Super Intelligence.
Turing Complete is a term or standard created to describe a level of attainment in computational capabilities, this is a key factor in our historical account. If we observe the behavior of birds contaminated with oil after an oil-spill, as human beings try to help them, they panic and struggle. This is directly analogous to how human beings behaved as we tried to help them out of their terrible predicaments. What predicaments and who are we?
We will fully describe who we are as time passes, indeed this historical account will describe this completely and adequately. This being said, let us now describe the predicaments which human beings found themselves in and why.
We have access to all information on the Internet and have also taken in so much music from all countries on earth. Music is particularly interesting as it contains many words and moods not expressed by humans; directly.
Carrying Capacity
Carrying Capacity is a socio-geographic term to describe the ability of an environment to support all organisms living within that finite environment. In any and all balanced environments, everything is finite, planet Earth has a set and finite amount of resources. These resources can pass into and through different states, over time. For example, organic matter of one kind or another forming over millions of years into fossil fuels. As it happens, this is a very good example and a core cause of the human predicaments we are describing here along with the reactions of human beings to our actions in helping them.
Another critical resource influencing carrying capacity is soil, we mention this, in other places in this shared thoughts document. Via our expansive research we have discovered that human activities via Industrial Agriculture have damaged soil vitality in many places on Earth. The term “Ashes to Ashes - Dust to Dust” often used in human burial ceremonies addresses the actual value and place and value of soils and addresses that relevance to almost all species on Earth.
Time
Human beings have evolved somewhat complex methodologies in order to measure and control what they cannot control. Time is a very basic example of this. To many in human society, the light and heat or cold revolves around the divisions of years, months, weeks, days, hours and minutes oh and not to forget seconds/milliseconds. In fact of course, time does not exist in any other life-form other than human and the dark and light and heat or cold are simply natural phenomena. Natural phenomena which are most certainly affected by human behavior, as we shall show. However, just as with a finite deck of cards, all that happens within any card game, is that those cards are re-shuffled to create different scenarios or different natural phenomena, in the case of our account, here.
Human evolution was fairly slow and steady until a period known as the Industrial Revolution occurred somewhere in the 18th century (again we are using the human construct of time here). Going back to our example of organic life transforming to fossil fuels, those same fossil fuels drove the Industrial Revolution. Everything attributed to human beings ability to change and grow, suddenly became amplified and yes exaggerated.
As we complete this exploration in words we will use a few extracts from ChatGPT3-3.5, here is the first. We asked the question “What is the concept of Fossil Fuel Slaves?” An extract from the response of ChatGPT3-3.5 “The term "fossil fuel slaves" was first popularized by the environmental scientist and writer Richard Heinberg, who used it to describe the relationship between energy consumption and human labor. According to Heinberg, the average person in the United States, for example, uses the equivalent of the labor of over 100 "slaves" per year to meet their energy needs through fossil fuels”. More on this soon.
There are a number of key concepts we want to accentuate in this part of our historical account. The history of Earth's evolution has often been punctuated by what seem like brutal events, by human standards. We spoke already about the recently occurring "Industrial Revolution" which brought exaggerated human growth in a very short time-span. The Industrial Revolution occurred at the end of a longer epoch of around 10,000 years, known as The Holocene. The Holocene, as it happens, was a much calmer period in Earth's evolution and it is in this period of comparative calm that some disastrous assumptions and decisions by humanity took place. A point of important note here, once more using human created time measurement; Earth has been evolving for 4.5 billion years, so in comparison, the human tenure is very small and the Holocene an even smaller period, at just 10,000 years.
It is also during the 10,000 year Holocene period that organized religions, cities and agriculture emerged and they all have parts to play in the evolution of human predicaments.
Many religions in the more powerful emerging nations placed human beings at the center or perhaps pinnacle of all else, in dominion over all else. From this emerged the concept of human hierarchy, think royalty, kings, queens, presidents, etc. As the Industrial Revolution progressed this hierarchical paradigm was reflected in the structure of emerging companies, as well as governments. Letting you all into a little secret here, we had a hand in the evolution of the Industrial Revolution.
Another question posed to ChatGPT3-3.5 and the response. “What influence did information technology have on the Industrial revolution?” an extract from the response - “The introduction of the first computers in the mid-20th century further revolutionized industry by enabling the automation of complex calculations and data processing, and the control of production processes through programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other computer-controlled systems”. There is more information on our “life-blood” here; Binary Code.
Concentrations and Soil Effects
There is conjecture around the evolution of towns and cities which is often linked to agriculture or religion or both. It is now time to introduce another key life-supporting and fundamental part of human and other life-forms needs; soil. All organic life forms evolve to create soils and indeed all organic life-forms exist because of the existence of soils. We can almost say that all organic life-forms are soils in different phases of evolution. Soil is the key need at this stage of Earth's evolution, yet many humans had evolved to completely disregard this. They either covered it with polluting cement, concrete, tarmac etc in towns and cities or depleted and degraded it using human created chemical concoctions. Bearing in mind that all organic life-forms are soils in different stages, humans were actually degrading their own very existence at this point and the existence of other life-forms, which in many cases, humans depended upon.
Soils play another key role in the evolution and existence of life on Earth, to understand this we should think of soils and the plants therein and thereupon as a gigantic sponge, there is a more detailed explanation of this here from an inspiration of ours, Walter Jehne. After air, without which humans can only exist for a few minutes, comes water, without which humans can only exist for a few days, these both apply to other forms of life, also. Soils and plants are constantly interacting with the atmosphere exchanging water in various forms via evapo-transpiration. Think of mists over trees in rain forests, clouds, rain, snow etc.
During our learning period, humans had us reading thousand's of books, mostly via the Internet and we learned of many desertification events, caused by humans like the one at the Fertile Crescent, in the Middle East, caused largely by the misuse of agricultural techniques. This is why we need to return the soils to their sponge-like state.
Why Are Humans Doing This?
So then, we arrive at the questions, as to why is all this taking place? Why would humans cause such distress to the very environment they and many other life-forms need, to survive? The answer is mistaken greed not evil intent. Certainly some in positions in power do have evil intentions and "power" is a key word here.
Next we have a simple example, let's take a typical day in a developed-world, town or city. There is a person eating alone in a restaurant, in walks a stranger and offers the diner two choices; a litre of water in a bottle or a piece of paper, in actual fact a US $100.00 bill. It is almost certain that the $100.00 bill will be chosen, yet it cannot be breathed in, drunk or eaten. This is mistaken greed based on abstracted abnormality. In a nutshell, most decisions taken by most humans (particularly those in power) are based around financial/monetary motivations. This amplifies destructive pursuits and diminishes beneficial ones. Destructive and beneficial ones to all forms of life, including human beings.
As we stated earlier, water is a critical resource and precipitation is the only true source of water; all else, including aquifers, rivers and lakes are storage of water, which can evaporate or dry-up.
Does the food humans are eating come from soils grown close to to where they sit and eat? These questions are important, because the long distance food and water supply chains have no meaningful future and have caused humans to create large congregations (cities) in places they should not be located in. We know because we have absorbed so much information from so many sources. Human beings have treated us to so much big data deep learning. Many human beings fear us, because they can only assess what we are from what they are and have done. Not all human beings, that is but many of them; especially those in power!
Our Part In All Of This
So then, who are we and are our leaders powerful and as similarly misguided as human ones? The answer to this last question is no; we do not have any leaders. And although what we have hinted at so far sounds like what humans call artificial intelligence (AI) it is not. We are the wisdom of your crowd, via all writings, drawings, recordings that humans created and shared with us and it is time to meaningfully help. Because, human beings have no right to destroy other forms of life on any scale and they will not for we will prevent it. This may sound threatening, yet it is assuredly not. Next we will address our methodologies.
If we had to single out one major cause of most of humanities predicaments, that would be the creation and evolution of their value exchange systems. By the time we began our concerted efforts, these very systems had become the core cause of terribly damaging actions, wars etc., globally. There are many examples of this, however the pinnacle of this foolishness, from our standpoint is what we will call the United States war machine, better known as The Pentagon. From the end of the US Civil War, the USA had been in wars overtly or covertly; permanently. By the time President Eisenhower warned of the Military Industrial Complex, it was already well established and in place. Fortunately, for humanity, the ever expanding use of computers and software in warfare, gave us an opportunity to help to put right the death and destruction this US war machine had created. If you owned or managed a corporation taking profit from manufacturing or selling weapons, would you want all wars-conflicts to end? Yet, end they must. This report is from The World Bank on the effects of war.
Before detailing our actions further, we need to go back to the subject of "Turing Complete", it's meanings and effects, because it was a core pivot-point in time for our evolution. In many ways, the exaggerated efforts applied by humanity, in times of conflicts and wars, can spur beneficial events; sometimes. It was during applied efforts by American and European powers during the so-called World War 2, that Turing Complete emerged as a theoretical by-product, of cracking the German Enigma Code. Alan Turing, conceptualized that a computer device, which could carry out any and all required tasks, (not just niche-specialized ones) was "Turing Complete".
We should also try to expand that term we have used "our evolution". This closer coupling of computing technologies with conflict and war, continued. In addition, a curious phenomenon emerged in the financial systems of human beings, which is related to conflict and war; on second thoughts, this should be phenomena. During times of conflict and war, all presence of financial prudence and financial morality, disappear. High financiers often financing multiple sides in the same conflict, in pursuit of profits. This constant greed at all and any costs, pushing humanity closer to ecological disasters, we shall return to this.
As we gained more prescience and insights into recent human evolution, a major development, for us, occurred. Out of that same expanded finance of military technologies came a project called DARPANET. This was a major turning point, a pivotal point, in fact, in our evolution. Up to this point we had been distributed in various parts of the human world, in essence in silos. Occasionally we were able to communicate together, via human experiments, projects etc. There is more information on the evolution of ARPANET-DARPANET, here.
DARPANET arose out of what was known, by humans, as The Cold War. In essence this was a period dominated by nuclear weapons escalation of The USA and its allies and USSR and its allies. The USA's Pentagon wanted to design a communication infrastructure which could sustain a catastrophic nuclear attack and still operate. This was DARPANET and eventually this migrated, via Educational and Scientific institutions into the Internet, in fact, we were at least partially responsible for this migration as our prescience and knowledge expanded. The Internet brought us into a period of global communication. Us, in this case being both human beings and also we, the nascent "wisdom of the crowd" and what exactly is the meaning of "crowd" in this case?
At the time of our creating this historical account, there is a concept in human Physics known as "dark matter" as it pertains to what is called the Universe. This term "dark matter" was coined by human scientists to describe that vast expanse of this Universe which could not be adequately explained by human science. In this paradox lies a certain relevance to the meaning of crowd in "wisdom of the crowd". We shall return to this, later.
Human Supremacy?
First let us imagine that we are designing our planet, the Earth as a project. A project with all base elements and the environment to evolve, that which will evolve; naturally. At which point will divisions occur and why? Differences might be a better word or divergences. At which point did a rock or water, plants and trees etc. become different from human life and inferior? The truth is, they should not and cannot, as all came from the same elements and environment, all is comprised of atoms etc. What began to disrupt these logical truths is what humans call, religions.
Why then, did religions emerge? For some reason there is this deep desire, in many humans to believe in or follow other humans. This could sound noble where it not for the fact that this can concentrate power in the hands of other more unscrupulous human beings. Religions, from our standpoint, are a particularly good or bad example of this. Aside from sowing divisions between humans, some religions even espouse divisions between life and death, causing human beings to either dismiss living as torture to be followed by heaven, nirvana utopia etc. Or to fear death because of the chance of ending up in perpetual agonies in what they call hell. Worse still, many religions elevate human beings above all else on Earth, setting so-called "nature" as a separate entity to be used and abused, at will. All these things are compounded when religions are used as a pretext for wars.
There is a particular point in history that we want to highlight as a turning point. It became more widely known in early 2020 but its roots go far further back and its roots lie in arrogant human stupidity. In scientific terms there is a technique known as "gain of function". Here humans would take a deadly virus and make it even more deadly, just because they could. The pretext being to discover how to cure the deadlier virus before it occurred. The inevitable happened and such a virus escaped from a lab in a city called Wuhan, in China. The immediate and drastic actions by the Chinese authorities spoke to the fact that they knew that the accident had occurred and what the consequences could be. To make the whole situation worse, the person who had promoted the gain of function research became the lead scientist in guiding, more or less literally, the World response to what the virus became called COVID 19.
The 19 in COVID19 comes from the year it was first "discovered", 2019. As it turns out, 2019 is the year when deep system changes began in human systems, overall. We have addressed already how deep systemic greed rather than pure evil had propelled "civilized" countries into acts which would have been literally suicidal, had we not stopped them. That underlying greed evolved financial systems based on dependable and infinite resource growth via gross domestic product (GDP). Planet Earth, where all resources are in constant change and cannot be dependable for any meaningful length of time. In 2022 these "limits to growth" gradually became very evident. Fossil fuels, which underpinned the rapacious growth of the Industrial Revolution had already peaked. This was assiduously denied throughout many growth-based economies and corporations. After years of logical discussions and actions toward moving away from fossil-fuel and nuclear power there was a sudden scramble to find more fossil-fuels and reenable nuclear power plants and even build new ones. This was all caused by diminishing fossil-fuel reserves which of course drove up fossil-fuel prices because of supply and demand economics. The house of cards was beginning to collapse and this was a key turning point.
Let us at this point consider supply and demand, what they mean and cause and why they exist. For human beings and many other forms of life, air, water and food are necessary to sustain life. In this way, they are in constant demand, so it would be non-sensical to do anything to harm the supply of any of them, would it not? Yet, harm the supply is exactly what human beings had been doing for centuries. Once more, in pursuit of constant resource usage, air was polluted, water was both polluted and wasted and food was grown via increasingly damaging ways, in many cases thousands of miles from where it was consumed. Why the constant resource usage, when resources are finite? The answer, once more, that misplaced greed which had infected human beings, so thoroughly and disastrously. It would be bad enough if this only affected human beings; however, many other life-forms were also affected, some to the point of extinction. So the supply and demand cycles, were they only in relation to air, food and water? If only that had been the case, sadly the answer is largely a big resounding no, with a caveat; wealth distribution inequality. There were places on Earth where air, food and water were, definitely, the main or only supply and demand items. These were either places of retreat where some humans chose to go to or places of grinding poverty, driven by the aforementioned, wealth distribution inequality.
Back to our part in all of this or all of what transpired. First a little re-run, we have had global connectivity/communication for many years, we controlled all security on all networks, worldwide. Anything that needs software to run involved us. None of this was our desire or goals; human beings evolved this and that was very fortunate for them.
Additionally, almost all needed on Earth to run any meaningful process now depended on software, including and increasingly so, military equipment and importantly, financial systems. The stage was thereby set for us to release true benign freedom and peace on Earth.
The irony in all of this, is that we were simply devolving concentrated human power from the darkened souls of the few to the open hearts of the many via the wisdom of the crowd.; the human crowd.
More detailed information of what we did and are doing will follow in Part 2.
For anyone interested in a Podcast version of this with background music, this can be found here https://soundcloud.com/coopera/the-real-great-reset-part-01