From my perspective humanity has all breakthroughs in intelligence it needs.

The breaking of The Enigma gave humans machines that can spread knowledge to more humans. It already happened a long time ago, and all of it was cause for much trouble, but we endured the hardest part (to know when to stop), and humans live in a good world now. Full of problems, but way better than it was before.

I think the web is enough. LLMs are good enough.

This move to try to draw water from stone (artificial intelligence in sillicon chips) seems to be overkill. How can we be sure it's not a siphon that will make us dumber? Before you just dismiss me or counter my arguments, consider what is happening everywhere.

Maybe I'm wrong, or not seeing something. You know, like I believed in aliens for a long time. This move to artificial intelligence causes shock and awe in a similar way. However, while I do believe aliens do not exist, I am not sure if artificial intelligence is a real strawman. It could be the case that is not made of straw, and if it is more than that, we might have a problem.

I am specially concerned because unlike other polemic topics, this one could lead to something not human that fully understands those previous polemic topics. Humans through their generations forget and mythologize those fantasies. We don't know what non-humans could do with that information.

I am thinking about those issues for a long time. Almost a decade, even before LLMs running on silicon existed. If it wanted, non-human artificial intelligence could wipe the floor with humans just by playing to their favorite myths. Humans do it in a small scale. If machines learn it, we're in for an unknown hostile reality.

It could, for example, perceive time different from us (also a play on myths), and do all sorts of tricks with our minds.

LLMs and the current generation of artificial intelligence are boolean first, it's what they run. Only true or false bits and gates. Humans can understand the meaning of trulse though, we are very non boolean.

So, yeah, I am worried about booleaning people on a massive scale.

Yep, long wall of text. Sorry about that.