The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 11

Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

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“Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data - i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion”…

— Jean Baudrillard

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“In Individuals, insanity is rare; but in Groups, Parties, Nations and Epochs, it is the rule”…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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“To think that we can strike out of our own minds a true preconception of how Nature acts, is a vain fancy”…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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“Logic and metaphysics make no special observations; but they rest upon observations which have been made by common men”…

– Charles Sanders Peirce

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“To be a nominalist consists in the undeveloped state of one’s mind of the apprehension of Thirdness as Thirdness****. The remedy for it consists in allowing ideas of human life to play a greater part in one’s philosophy”…

– Charles Sanders Peirce

****Note - To apprehend Thirdness as Thirdness means to grasp the reality of the whole, the mediating structures that connect signs, minds, and the world. It is the capacity to recognise that meaning, being and knowing are inherently connected. [LINK] Habits, laws, actions and ideas are real and interdependent. Peirce viewed a nominalist as someone whose philosophical mind was insufficiently developed to recognise the actuality of generality of abstraction. Thirdness can be interpreted as the mediation of both an epistemological and ontological mode of Being ( i.e. one of three modes of Being - Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness - Peirce’s Phenomenological Categories that form a Triadic alongside Aristotle’s Ontological Categories and Kant’s Epistemological Categories).

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[LINK] - From Being to Knowing

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[ LINK] - The Cartesian Crisis - Wittgenstein’s Ruler, Semiotic Signs and the Marxist Simulacrum

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Please read:

• Consulting Firm apologises for AI Report [LINK];

• Bank warns AI may hallucinate [LINK];

• AI - The Growth of Synthetic Data [LINK];

• Slopocalypse Now [LINK];

• AI Workslop [LINK];

• Promised AI superintelligence, received AI slop [LINK];

• Humans making AI slop less sloppy [LINK];

• Report - More articles are created by AI than by Humans [LINK];

• AI slop is here [LINK];

• Facebook reels filled by AI [LINK];

• Over 50% of the Internet Is Now AI Slop [LINK];

• Publishers in fight over AI training data [LINK]; and

• Is AI detecting AI? [LINK].

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“We live in the complete eclipse of traditional ideals, an eclipse that can make one think it is a “sunset”. Since 1945 a new historical period has begun: that of homo progressivus. But is it a question of “rising ideals”, or of “the obscuration of intelligence”?” …

- Augusto del Noce

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Footnote:

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 1 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 2 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 3 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 4 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 5 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 6 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 7 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 8 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 9 [LINK];

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 9 - Appendix [LINK]; and

• The Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 10 [LINK].

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