George Crews

Retired engineer, politely avoiding sophistry.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@RyanHaecker Aristotle believed that men had more teeth than women, even though he was married twice. This is an example of holding a belief so strongly that there is no need to check the evidence. Even the smartest among us fall victim to this.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@IAI_TV A scientific attempt to reify angels and demons? What is the difference here between the "chaos of unpredictable change" and the actions of spirits with free will?

[George Crews @gmcrews]

I ask Grok to proofread everything I post. (This is an exception.) Often, I also ask for a critique since I consider the LLMs to be the probable consensus of expert opinion. (Yes, I think human peer review is dead.)

My original draft reply was something to the effect that @mathelirium regularly embodies the REVERSE Dunning-Kruger effect. Grok was not happy with that. The result was the compromise that gave you the vibes. Nice catch.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

Because of technology, humanity's future will become an "engineering project." Whoever controls our future's stakeholder requirements will control the future. Power will come not from overt coercion, but from specification.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

Looks like AI is killing mediocre science. What's wrong with that?

[Selçuk Korkmaz @selcukorkmaz]

AI just killed the peer-review. No one reads the papers anymore. Neither reviewers nor editors. It is impossible address issues raised by the AI. They find something wrong in every round of revisions and papers get rejected eventually. This is killing the science itself.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

The old, now mostly abandoned, Google line "Don't be Evil" was never a complete ethics. It is only the easy half. The harder half is deciding which existing evils we are obligated to oppose, and which ones we can only refuse to join. Those are not the same problem.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@TheMilkBarTV @paleochristcon I guess if you serve up enough Kool-Aid you eventually wind up drinking Kool-Aid.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

An AI's behavior needs to be predictable. Some form of "brainwashing" is required. But who gets to do the brainwashing?

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@KSteigen Not ethnic cleansing, ethnic suicide.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

In a high tech society, ignorance is never bliss.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@PaulRRobichaud There is no correlation between high IQ and great wisdom.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

Only people can be evil, not machines. AI-as-villian is being used as political cover for people in institutions who want total control.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@TivadarDanka A fancy way of saying you're OK with AI slop code? Me too.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@theobjectivist Don't believe claims that can't be proven false, not even the ones that are true.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@RodDMartin I think they truly believe that technology cannot be allowed to accelerate faster than it can be safely steered—by them.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

Do not put a soul into a machine. We are engineers, not gods. The only demons and angels that exist, or ever will exist, are in human minds.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

It looks like the AI Doomers are determined to find out the hard way that a sense of conviction has nothing to do with reality.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Your solution mechanism is exactly backwards. It is liberal atheists who must join modern Christians. The "terrain" must once again become a Christian terrain. For example, the US Constitution is just a piece of paper outside of a Christian (Natural Law) framework.

[George Crews @gmcrews]

@Devon_Eriksen_ It should not be surprising that churches (comprised of fallible human beings) have failed in their duty to prevent the crisis of modernity. So has all of our other institutions.

The solution is not stronger churches, but for each individual to come closer to Christ.