My latest walk and talk on AI / LLM danger… and the foundations of human cognition.

In this walk and talk I explore some (largely unknown) foundations of human cognition, the lethal problems with identity (what/who something/someone ‘is’) that orbit the ‘is’ of identity (c.f. Korzybyski), and how these problems arose from displacing the ‘certainty’ of identity from dead, artificial objects to all phenomenon/situations. I proceed to a brief explanation of the effects of these problems (they damage the root concepts our minds rely upon for coherence in thought and relationship). From there,

I speak about the ‘primal triangle’ in human cognition ( ambiguity / vigilance / prediction ) and how the introduction of irresolvable ambiguity drives humans insane, can be weaponized easily, and causes displacement of anxiety onto ‘scapegoats’.

I explore the nature of a specific array of threats posed by LLMs ‘AI’ (it’s not intelligence, at all), and how the introduction of irresolvable ambiguity produced by these systems poses a ‘metathreat’ or ‘hyperthreat’ to human cognition that we have neither immunity to, nor even the capacity to understand … let alone resolve.