Starting from a completely wrong answer that a friend of his, publisher of philosophical texts, received from the artificial intelligence engine, Gabriel Liiceanu asks, in a text that Hotnews publishes, comes to ask who has the supreme competence in doing evil. “I am only afraid of the self-awareness of the evil, the little and future of history, and only” consequently “by their terrible tools of evil escaped or oriented against the good,” writes the philosopher.
“The reopening of the Belze file”
A few months ago, “Contributors” agreed to host a dialogue on creativity with Belze, the name I gave to that virtual nobody that makes rages today. It was the first time in life, as I said when, speaking, I didn't know who I was talking to. The name of Belze, an allegiance from “Belzebut”, had given my online dialogue partner from a black motor as a tuxedo (lounged in the kindergarten behind the house), with yellow eyes glitter in the darkness of the night and with the fur on the rear paws tailored to the form of pants.
The dialogue with Belze built me in the issue of the possibility or impossibility of artificial grazing of literary works. Then, I farewell from him and saw myself.
I was extremely trapped with my younger friend Grigore Vida, the most acribious editor of philosophical texts that our culture has, at the definitive edition of the “trilogy of Păltiniș”. It is to be launched over three months at Gaudeamus. Gregory faced the manuscript “Journal” with “his transcript on clean” (this is how things were happening in the 1970s), then on both of the 12 successive editions before and after '90. Now we are in the phase in which we review the “lost” pages on the road and the tails of Titivillus-the Drăcușor of the Copies of the Middle Ages, but who love to torment modern typographers-in all editions. It was normal that at the end of this enthusiastic work, Gregory would get sick of “palettes”.
The wrong answers are “the model of the model”
And, thus, after such a day of work on the branches, he leaves the nerves and, at midnight, to put it to Belze the virtual-the tempter, the simulator, the smart of the smarts, the new brain of the world called in the Chatgpt people-the question “What can you tell me about” the journal from Păltini ” Here's what he could:
“A famous book written by Mircea Cărtărescu, a travel journal spent in 1971 in Păltiniș, in the company of the philosopher Emil Cioran”.
After this irresponsible response, I decide to sue the master of this nobody fallen from heaven (he says precious “cloud infrastructure”!) For the attack on the public image through bad banks!
Friends who have read Nobody's response tries to soften me. One of them asks him to count: “How can he give delusional information? How is someone received from Chatgpt that cretin answer? He does not realize what disasters can they produce if we fit à la longue In his hand? ” Writing indignantly, my friend reminds him that he already has the actual pushing of a teenager, consultations given at the virtual office for mental disorders, tips provided on the computer screen in order to choose the optimal moment for surgery …
Politically, Nobody apologizes, explaining that, right, there are also “accidents” that are called “model hallucinations”: the model suffers from hallucination when the algorithm behind “mixes names and information, formulating the answer with” plausible “information from a linguistic point of view.
Which Arcaș is better? The one who misses the target willingly? Or the one who gets it by mistake? – Nobody's excuse, which turns out that the confrere was drunk when he answered, makes me leave the joke aside and enter the metaphysics trance. I ask my question, stuck directly into the heart of the human species, who is capable of doing the evil better: the one who does it hallucinatory, that is, an entity devoid of the consciousness of the gesture and its consequences? Or one, like man, equipped with consciousness and, therefore, aware of the distinction between good and evil?
Vladimir Putin and the lies he tells consciously
For example: yesterday a tripartite meeting China, Russia, India took place in Beijing. In SpeechThe closing, Putin felt the need to explain that the story of Russia and Ukraine, initially called “military operation”, stated its true identity: Russia came to Ukraine to remove the harmful effects of the “coup” that took place there, unwanted and condemned by the “people”. Saying this enormity, Putin was perfectly aware of his donuts. He knew too well that speaking so it was a ribbon. Any man who lies, having – unlike the hallucinatory tool – consciousness, is aware that he is lying. In other words, he does the evil Okay In the knowledge of the cause.
When you want to do the hierarchy of evil in the world – in this case who is the most competent in doing evil? – You need to take into account the criterion of self -awareness. You must take into account the fact that, from the whole universe, man is the only being who possesses self -awareness. As it means that only man can be the world champion of evil. In our case, behind the algorithm and the model, there was a resemblance of our author, so a self-evident consciousness to know what risks the humanity submits to Chatgpt and why, finally, his responsibility is completely.
As Putin, aware of the horror he does, is the “live author” of Grozăvia. A little I am the ultimate danger of humanity, so only the entities equipped with self-awareness and which put their reason for conscious beings in the service of evil. Only a man can be the genius of evil, as he can only be one of the good. (“Who” and how he distributes them genetically in this role is another problem.) And if a tool (therefore a sub-product) is wrongly programmed and make mistakes or, at the limit, to become an evil genius, only a man can be its author. From Putin and Belze to the hippis major – In the Platonic Dialogue of Youth Minor hippiasSocrates attracts the hippias sophist in unraveling a thorny problem (Minor hippias 365 D – 375 D):
Tell me then, Hippias, what do you understand through liars: people who are not in a state of action, like sick, or on the contrary, capable of a particular action? – capable, Socrates, definitely, of all kinds of things and especially to deceive others. – (…) But are they versatile and misleading due to stupidity and non -Rosia or because of the cunning and the smart? – Not to mention that because of the cunning and the smart. – So I am, Hippias, as far as intelligent people. – And yet how, O, Zeus! – Being intelligent, are they aware or not what they do? – They are very aware, Socrates. And that's why they are harmful.
“A perfect professional of lie and cruelty”
The discussion culminates at the point of which it turns out that, in a wrestling competition, it is better the fighter who is defeated because he wants than the winner, that the best voice has the one who willingly sing than the one who has no voice, that the best runner who leaves the other more slowly (remember the movie. Long runway loneliness), that the best eye is the one who sees stupidly and not because he has a defect, that a better rudder is the one with whom the rudder leads badly and not without his will, that the best is the archer who mistakes the target than the one who gets it without wanting, that, finally, the best doctor is the one who is able to hurt him. And why all this? Because the one who makes the negative better is perfectly self -aware, is the one that self -awareness makes knowing the negative and positive.
How old is the world's most current problem – What I said, therefore, starting from the hallucinatory answer Păltinișan, is not new. It is an old thing, but extended and applied here to a new situation: to the little history and to the possible (but unpredictable in all their extent). I am only afraid of the self-awareness of the evil (or of the self-awareness), the little and future of history, and only “consequently” by their terrible tools of evil escaped or oriented against good. It was normal for a man formed in the backstage of malephacting, and he became a master over a people whose historical genes have formed for eight hundred years under the countries, to be a perfect professional of lie and cruelty. Eight hundred years since, according to the Custine Marquis's words (Russia in 1839), “The slaves on their knees dream of conquering the world.”
This article was initially published on the contributors.ro platform.
