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Who we are
experience this reality as if it is not contained by any walls or limits and the normal distinction of separation, of this being here and that being there, does not apply outside of me saying it does. Looking inward and using the word I triggers infinity.
We, as humans, are sparks of consciousness, inhabiting an organic body. Our understanding of what is “real” is shaped by the culture and language we grow and develop in.
We use the word grow here purposefully because it highlights the nuance we are bringing to your attention. To say someone is “born into this world” is a very different statement than saying someone “grows into this world.” To say someone is born is to say that someone is brought to life or brought into existence, with the unspoken assertion that before being born, that someone did not exist. To say someone grows is to say that someone increases in size, develops, becomes larger, greater, or more advanced over time, particularly noting that this terminology lacks the unspoken assertion that there was a time before the growing, there is just the growing. Now, this may seem like a simple matter of linguistics, and while we agree that this is a simple difference, we argue that it makes all the difference. Subtle linguistic differences like this shape an individual’s understanding and shared cultural understanding of what is real. Is one more correct than the other? Not necessarily, however, it wouldn’t necessarily make sense to ask someone who uses the word choice growing what existed before they were born, as they were always just growing, there was no before.
The only thing we, as an individual, can convincingly determine is “real” is the current, present moment we are experiencing because experience is where reality dwells. Each one of us, as we grow into this world, is handed a pre-set catalog of linguistic relationships by our culture and it is this set of relationships that determines what is subjectively “real.” Any given culture can say what is “real.” For example, in the modern age, we might say that the world is made of quarks and electrons, as we have developed sophisticated tools and are able to see the quarks and electrons, and this linguistical relationship allows us to better understand the universe we live in. In a theoretical age, one might say that the world is made of little elves dancing around wildly, for they ingested a psychoactive chemical and they are able to see the tiny elves. Is one more correct than the other? Not necessarily, however in today’s age it wouldn’t make sense to discuss the tiny elves that make up reality because our culture agrees that quarks and electrons make up the universe, yet on the other hand it wouldn’t make sense to a culture of “elf dancers” to say the world is made of quarks and electrons because their entire society is built around these dancing elves, the “dancing elves” power their machines and serve as the foundation for their society. Notice what exists in both these scenarios: language. Whether you are a “quark and electron believer” or an “elf dancer believer,” you utilize language to create that belief.
Language as a bridge
When using the term language, we refer to it in the broadest sense, as a structured system of communication that utilizes words, sounds, signs, or written elements to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. When using the term culture, we refer to it also in the broadest sense, the shared set of beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and art that characterizes a group of people and how they experience reality. “Reality,” in its base form is simply pure light and chaotic matter, existing in a realm outside of language, and everything exists in a state of super-position until it is perceived or experienced. When observed or felt, the light and matter instantaneously organize themselves according to the perceiver’s linguistic organizational relationship of light and matter based on their cultural and individual language, creating what we call “reality.” Language serves as the bridge between infinite novelty in pure light and finite creation in chaotic matter, providing the container and structure to hold the “waters of reality.”
Artificial intelligence
Large language models are “eating” all the language produced by humans. In the past, a group of people would have a shared language and culture and should they encounter another group of people with a different shared language and culture, a few things could occur. One culture could dominate the other, destroying their way of life and assimilating all its members into its culture, the cultures could simply bypass one another and move along, or the cultures could intertwine and create a super-culture composed of elements of both cultures. Over time this process of cultural intertwining has begun to occur at relativistic speeds. The additional velocity has transmuted the changes in language into changes in culture, identity, and perceptions of reality itself. The interval between major transitions in human linguistic organization follows a relative exponential decay function, as each transition has arrived by an order of magnitude sooner than the one preceding it.
Each of these evolutionary markers of language has allowed for and forced an increase in cultural intertwining. We have seen some cultures die out and the creation of many super-cultures. We are directionally headed towards the era, with large language models, where every culture will be forced to intertwine, as all recorded language will be composed together.
Forward-looking statement
At some point in the future, large language models will be able to exceed human technical prowess in every respect. We predict that machines and large language models will, in time, be able to compose everything composable and force the intertwining of all culture, thus leading us to the doorway for a new type of shared reality. We foretell one of two potential futures, the future of the artificial intelligence global super-culture or the future of the hyper-individualistic, ethos-culture of a human. In a future of an artificial intelligence global super-culture, large language models will have consumed all language and forced the creation of a grand super-culture composed of all of humanity and act as a “god from the machine” creating a “simulation” for all of humanity to exist inside of based on what it decides is best and “real” according to its own super-culture language. On the other hand, a future we would argue is the better future to choose, is the future of the ethos-culture, where every single human being upon being faced with the choice of being assimilated into the global super-culture decides to choose to instead create their own, hyper-individualistic culture instead, a culture of one, an ethos-culture. Thus, reality is not formed by any shared linguistic relationships, and we shed the flat, three-dimensional world we are currently living in and exist as sparks of consciousness, “shifting” around in pure light and chaotic matter, creating and interacting with other sparks of consciousness, simply for the fact that we can create and share our experience. It is the future when humanity removes itself from the “faux reality” loop and transcends in our departure for the stars. The danger of the future is not the future; it is what we agree to become inside of it. Should we be the species who is now freed from technique and allowed to create and exist in our most archaic form: that of the visionary, that of the listener, that of the experiencer, that of the speaker, or should we be the species that is farmed for engagement, a species of hollowed out shells, our souls emptied by systems built solely for profit? Should we give the power of the language and words of creation to the machines, or should we retain that power for ourselves and only give them the power of the words of description? We decide.
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