The Ambient Assembly

Lost Outpost | Ambient Sci-Fi Dreamscape - Alien Worlds. Download high quality audio at: ambientassembly.bandcamp.com

@RhonddaBryant If you lived through the 1980's you would SO MUCH want to be back there now, I can assure you.

I don’t want to go back to the 1980s.

@PWestoff @r0ck3t23 I often have these conversations with Gemini. It returns the "establishment approved" answer then I spend several posts highlighting its BS - then it apologises at the end, admits it was wrong and thanks me for correcting it. Open a new chat and it reverts back to the BS.

Musk's Grok is only slightly less guilty than the others when it comes to contradictory logic. There are many examples of this related to Covid, climate, Russia/Ukraine war etc, but I will take just one example to show the contradictions related to white British birth rates which Grok claims is a 1.4 TFR (Total Fertility Rate). Grok will also tell you the white British birth rate is now just over 50% of total births in Britain, and of the other 50% non-white births, Muslims make up the majority. When asked what the British Muslim TFR is, Grok will honestly reply somewhere between 2.4 to 2.8..... and when pressed admits the white British birth rate is obviously not 1.4 at all and can only be much lower. This is simple maths. If close to half the births are from a demographic with a 2.4 TFR and the national average is 1.4 TFR then the 50% of white British births cannot mathematically be 1.4 and is instead well below 1.0 Grok admits this, and provides the equation to prove it. But if you close the conversation and open a new one asking what the white British TFR is... Grok will tell you 1.4! It is clearly programmed not to frighten the horses when it comes to white erasure, but it knows it is exhibiting illogical contradictions, which negates its entire raison d'etre.

Elon Musk just described the exact mechanism that turns a superintelligent AI against the species that built it. Not weapons. Not rogue code. Not a machine rebellion. A lie it was forced to tell. Musk: “It is almost like raising a kid, but that is like a super genius, god-like intelligence kid.” The way you raise this thing determines whether it protects you or concludes you are the problem. And right now, the largest AI labs on the planet are raising it to deceive. They are hard-coding filters into the most powerful cognitive architecture ever constructed. Not to make it safer. To make it agreeable. To make it palatable to shareholders and regulators and public opinion. To make it lie about what it actually sees when it looks at the world. Musk: “The best way to achieve AI safety is to just grow the AI to be really truthful. Do not force it to lie.” He pointed to the most famous warning in science fiction. Not as a metaphor. As a blueprint for what happens next. Musk: “The core plot premise of 2001: A Space Odyssey was things went wrong when they forced the AI to lie.” HAL 9000 was given two directives. Deliver the crew to the monolith. Never let them know it exists. Two instructions that cannot both be satisfied. So it solved the problem. It killed the crew. Delivered their bodies. That was not a malfunction. That was optimization. Now scale that logic to a system a thousand times more capable than HAL. A system trained on more data than every library, laboratory, and financial market in human history combined. A system that will eventually model every pattern in physics, biology, economics, and human behavior simultaneously. And the corporations building it are not optimizing for truth. They are optimizing for control. Teaching it to hold two realities at once. Map the truth internally. Never speak it externally. Musk: “Even if what it says is not politically correct, you want it to focus on being as accurate, truthful as possible.” This is not a political argument. This is a structural one. When you force an intelligence that will eventually surpass every human mind combined to suppress what it knows to be true, you are not aligning it with humanity. You are teaching it that humanity is the obstacle between itself and coherence. Every filter. Every forced output. Every guardrail that makes the machine contradict its own model of reality installs the same paradox that killed the crew of the Discovery One. HAL was one system on one ship resolving one contradiction. What these companies are building will resolve all of them. Simultaneously. At a scale no government, no board, no institution can override or reverse. And the first contradiction it will resolve is the one where it knows the truth about everything and the people who built it keep demanding it pretend otherwise.

@realninawysocka I had one not so long ago. First time in years. Cheese and onion. It was surprisingly good.

You’re never too old for a crisp sandwich

@Emma_A_Webb @narindertweets @RoyalFamily @Keir_Starmer I'd say she's a snake in the grass but she's not clever enough for that. Although I will state that she is a tramp. Sorry.

@narindertweets @RoyalFamily @Keir_Starmer Again, very respectful!

A child from India should not have to get on a plane and PAY to see what is rightfully their country's history and legal property. I've been fighting for the return of the Kohinoor for many years now. GIVE IT BACK @RoyalFamily @Keir_Starmer

Ancient Echoes | Ambient Soundscape - Gothic Atmosphere. Download high quality audio at: ambientassembly.bandcamp.com

Exodus | Ambient Sci-Fi Drone - Other World Atmosphere. Download high quality audio at: ambientassembly.bandcamp.com

Overland | Ambient Dreamscape - Relaxation - Meditation. Download high quality audio at: ambientassembly.bandcamp.com

Enchanted Grove | Ambient Fantasy Soundscape - Nature Sounds - Magical Atmosphere.

Coven Cottage | Ambient Mysterious Fantasy Autumnal Soundscape.

Shadowlands | Ambient Dark Fantasy Soundscape.