Fooling the foolish with a dumb dashboard
I always wanted to go to places.
At age 2 I tried to escape from my home but my legs were chubby and short. When I was a teenager, I loved driving my beat up car and beat up its capacity by flirting with the red empty “E”. The closer the better. Until one day I ran out of gas and I had to walk to school. I also got robbed. Whatever.
I always wanted to go to places.
When I was a teenager, I used to love driving my beat up car and beat up its capacity by flirting with the red empty “E”.
– Beep bop. Beep bop –
That’s the sound of my AI telling me the risky results revealed through my reckless capacity. That red empty E is now pointing at me. Why?
– Beep bop. You have said too much shit today. Beep bop –
OMG that’s mean. Pissed, I push the pill shaped button that says Learn More. My AI opens a pop up dialog with a video showing the interview with Elon Musk and a reporter.
BBC reporter called out by Elon Musk on "hate speech."
Reporter: bla bla bla
Elon: Can you give me an example?
Reporter: bla bla bla
Elon: Can you give me an example?
After what it feels like 7 hours- this keeps going. “Give me an example”– Elon says every time. A valid answer to an assertion right? By the way, I’m not here to take a moral stand on their position, but I’m here to say it's immoral to just go about life just talking shit. Like a pirate parrot. Like a wireless repeater repeating shit.
– Beep bop. Talking is not the same as understanding– and today you have talked too much without understanding what you are talking about. Beep bop –
Ouch. Okay. Unexamined beliefs, leading to blindly believing in routines, can turn our lives into autopilot mode. Hell, sometimes I even feel self-righteous- going around feeling and forwarding familiar facts.
– Beep bop. …Beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded everyday (Philip E. Tetlock) . Beep bop.
WTF. 2 things: 1) I hate this smart ass AI and 2) That sounds like a lot of work. Re-examining what I believe based on what I encounter instead of immediately flipping out, leaving an ambiguous sassy comment and gossiping about it with other people and trolls? What is this forced labor? Am I under arrest?
The place I want to go now is one of understanding.
What does it take to understand something? My super dope AI can tell me that I don’t understand most of the things. Nada de nada papa. It calculates in real time my capacity for understanding. It tracks my tracks and cracks my mind. The dreadful red empty “E” is there all the time. Gah. I press the Why button.
– Beep bop. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool (Feynman 1985) This week you have read 25 articles. Scrolled for 20 hrs, and have spent a total of 4.5 hrs on your phone. Yet, you have done nothing to internalize, translate, and make something useful of that information. – Beep bop –
Oh so I’m the fool? Dumb dashboard. I’m used to having measurements defined by others to gauge my understanding. You need a bachelor’s degree! You got a C+! You have five followers… So having my own understanding measurement feels weird. Like.. umm.. It's my responsibility, my accountability? Balls. Big balls.
How do I know what and how to understand better? I’m afraid of the unknown, but I’m not afraid of my super smart AI and it’s dumb dashboard to help me along. I tap the other pill shaped button that says Fix.
–Beep bop–Here we go. –Beep bop–