Conspiracy theories are wonderful. Anyone can make up any kind of bizarre theory that's impossible to disprove and get lots of attention. Maybe contrails really are a secret government plot to spray us with mind control agents. Maybe the earth is flat and the gods make the sun rise and set by pulling it across the sky in a giant chariot. For most people, that's good enough to go about their normal lives. But if I was writing a program to predict sunrise and sunset times, I would use a model where the earth is round and orbits the sun. If I was an aircraft engineer, I would use a model where kerosene reacts with oxygen to produce water vapor that condenses to form clouds at -50 C.
For most people, it is good enough to believe that God gave them an immortal soul. As an AI researcher, I use the model that consciousness is indistinguishable from next token prediction. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 6:26 AM John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 4:28 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > AI makes mind control easier by modeling what we believe and confirming > it. It's what keeps us tuned into the same channels all day, feeding us > conspiracy theories or lies about how politics matters, dividing us so they > can sell ads. > > > The government, government funded, supranationals are the greatest > purveyors of misinformation and disinformation. Not some guy looking up at > those zigzagging lines across the sky doubting what he’s been told about > them being water vapor and putting up a website about it. They’re > chemicals, metals and probably smart dust. The government just admitted to > the spraying thanks to orange man getting it done. Other releases are being > held back even though they’ve been ordered, for example the JFK > assassination files and looks like some issues with exotic technologies > with those recent missing or dead scientists. State governments jump on the > bandwagon to get their federal funding and now we can see where much of > that money goes with 100's of billions going to corruption every year. But > the citizens are the ones that need to be surveilled? A larger picture > emerges... > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7fbc44c56222e976-Mf6ad002bbb35f48211865a30> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7fbc44c56222e976-Mfa4d8f7958881f2e13494d61 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
