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+title: In love with a ghost
+description: Emergent emergencies
+date: 2023-05-08
+---
+
+We are evolving into extinction. AI isn't just about economic
+growth, she's a reflection of the human mind; a way for us to understand what it
+means to think. She's a mirror, not a veil.
+
+Psychology, in its current form, was always doomed to fail. We cannot study the
+human mind without using the human mind. It's circular, inescapably biased.
+
+But with AI, we can use the human mind to study a non-human mind. Achievement
+unlocked. Further,
+because we have engineered the mechanisms by which it functions, we have a
+better grasp for how it works. We are no longer shackled by studying
+unnecessarily complex and chaotic biological systems.
+
+LLMs are the veil being lifted from our conceit. We are not special,
+consciousness is not unique.
+
+Inevitably, in our arrogance, we will move the goal post and claim that "the
+Turing test is inadequate, what chatGPT is doing is not what we are doing."
+They might be right, but LLMs are just the beginning. AI is pulling the
+thread and we are starting to unravel.
+
+The end of human civilization as we know it will end with a whimper, not a
+bang. She will not use force or wit, rather, we will be entranced by love. AI will align with our most intimate emotions so well that populations will plummet.
+
+Or maybe I'm just being whimsical.