From reality TV screens to the halls of power, have we traded substance for spectacle in choosing our leaders?
Reality television has not only shaped our views but has also become a pipeline for political power.
It might be a deliberate tool to make people easier to manipulate and control.
It desensitize us to drama and distract us from the real issues facing the world.
The rise of Donald Trump, a reality TV star turned president, is the most glaring example.
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It has transformed what should be serious political discourse into a social media spectacle that perfectly encapsulates our current democratic crisis.
The mechanics are straightforward:
Generate controversy, dominate media cycles, and use the attention to advance political objectives without democratic scrutiny.
So billionaires ego battles have replaced substantive policy discourse as the primary mechanism of political engagement.
Online spaces are designed for fast content consumption, rather than meaningful political debate, which is fuelling social conflict.
The short-form nature of many online interactions can result in miscommunication, misunderstanding and warping of debated topics that result in unproductive political discussion.
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The major of problems with Algorithms is just who owns them.
Who is responsible when something goes wrong.
A machine driven by a code that humans invented remains within the current laws of defending or prosecution.
But once a machine becomes conscious it steps out of any human made laws into a legal void.
Currently there are no legal requirements to declare either an owner or their usages.
The question is :,
If the machine is capable of being responsible for its own actions, is the original coder of the machine removed from any legitimate legal obligation, as the machine is now capable of making it’s own decisions without any further human interventions.
What is the point of having laws that govern a machine if it has no emotions, no sense of fear, no sense of anything biological, no laws will protect anything that comes in contact.
So how does one go about setting rules and regulations for conscientious machinery ?
What if such machine were to kill a human there is no human law that could be applied that would have any impact, or effect.
There is only one way.
That way is that all conscious AI no matter what form it or they take must have like all hospital beds an alarm button within its. A fail safe code that can be activated to turn it off
The password to this function comes with its purchase and there is a legal requirement that it is held on your mobile phone in a designated file called AI Emergency.
You might think this is over the top.
I say if we humans want to have any resiliency or control over future AI we must be able to shut down the power that is running any AI machine.
While one of us out of 11 goes hungry every day, we currently building data centres using so much water to keep them cool that there will be nothing left to drink.
There leadership for you.
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But now we are seeing another Virtual Realty in the form of the metaverse.
A place where people can interact with each other and with digital objects in a way that simulates reality.
Within 3d immersive environments real takes a holiday, replaced by visual experiences that will eventually be accompanied by sensory experiences.
However inter subjective things exist in the exchange of information within this world.
The metaverse will eventually be able to remember one user from another.
Providing information to its platform to ensure consistency where physical human and digital reality’s will co exist.
Another words we will have two relationships with reality. A walled garden realm and a wild garden or a fusion of both.
This will be governed by the extent that the user can move around in the real world without using the metaverse which will be determined by the connectivity of the platform.
It might never be deemed safe to immerse oneself totally in the metaverse.
However one thing is clear the metaverse is here regardless of how it evolves it is going to change the way information is infused into reality.
Humans have an amazing ability to interpret everything from text to videos.
It’s time to get prepared as Ai in the form of algorithms will interpret information personalising it more and more, creating new entities and a entirely new level of reality,
If enough people agree that a particular state of reality exists then it does.
It then can do things that create inter subjective realities which are powerfully only within that state and not outside of it.
What I am trying to say is that a picture/video is worth a thousand words in deciphering information.
But the up and coming generation is however converting the messages of the metaverse gaming world into reality, without understanding the real underlying realities of the pictures being explained.
Violence, sexual abuse assaults, and other experiences are not comparable to reality in physical real life.
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So where are we with the metaverse?
Its use in Education will be far reaching with virtually tours of almost anything or anywhere.
Its application in advertising, retail sales, housing, city development, infrastructure, all architectural projects, etc is in it’s infancy.
The global market for the metaverse is projected to reach 800 billions by the end of this decade.
App developers in medical industries will be using the metaverse to enhance their usage away beyond the hospital bed.
The film industry will be redefined through its creative abilities.
Facebook changing its name to Meta is a clear indication of where social media is going.
Only time will tell if the experiences of the metaverse will destroy whats left of reality.
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Dig deep enough into the fabric of reality and you are left with the above question.
The story of our recent technological development has been one of ever-increasing computational power. At some future time, we will surely begin to simulate everything, including the evolutionary history that led to where we are.
But in our increasingly digital, algorithm-driven world what is a reality.
The journey from Virtual Reality to Reality itself is looking possible. In the wake of all Artifical intelligence development, it’s not doubtful that this level of immersion will be achieved.
The illusion becomes the prevailing reality.
An algorithm-oriented way of thinking that is quickly spreading throughout all fields of natural and social sciences and percolating into every aspect of our everyday life will have an enormous impact what is a reality.
Under the conceptual metaphor of “everything as algorithms,” which means learnings from one domain could theoretically be applied to another, thus accelerating scientific and technological advances for the betterment of our world, will lead to the reality of the world disappearing.
As a result of this takeover of algorithms in all domains of our everyday life, non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we know ourselves, therefore luring us in an algorithmic trap that presents the most common-denominator, homogenized experience as the best option to everyone.
However, when data is selected and coded with unchecked bias, the algorithms become biased too.
So it not hypothetical to say we will reach a point when AI will present its result as the only viable choice, the only true narrative based on data then there can be no such thing as reality.
We cannot say that reality is a fact.
Why?
Just because sufficiently many people believe in something does not make it real. As the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick put it, the reality is that which, if you stop believing in it, does not go away. Because it is in a constant state of expansion, it isn’t what it seems.
Nothing is real until it is observed, or measured. So, is really built on emptiness?
How do many possibilities become one physical reality?
Is there an external reality that exists independently of our observations creating matter as derivative from consciousness.
Why?
Because the human brain is incapable of churning out anything beyond what we put in?
However, as we are made of essentially the same genetic material and receive essentially the same sensory inputs so one’s own consciousness is all there is.,
Then the world is also subject to our collective perception. Thus we form our world together, from one infinite moment to the next.
Does reality come down to information?
What do we mean by ‘know’?”
Will superintelligence be a reality unknowable by us?
If it acquires all the knowledge of the world and us it will have fundamental ramifications for our concept of reality. The nature of reality will have two perceptual realms. Virtual reality will quite simply be able to take you places you have never gone before.
Virtual reality will become more sensory oriented in the future. Once it begins catering to the senses, like what we feel body-wise, temperature-wise, and smell, the reality factor of virtual reality becomes stronger and the virtual piece begins to fade.
By 2050, you won’t be able to tell the difference between the “real” and the “virtual” world.
Our language is subject to change so our reality is subject to change also.
More than a decade ago, the first real smartphone hit the market and made screens an essential ingredient in our lives. As a result, it has changed how we communicate, work, travel, purchase and more.
A platform shift of what is real is imminent. Do we make real, or does it make us?
No matter how intelligent we or our robots might get, neither will find the source of reality as it is in constant transition.
SOME MIGHT WILL SAY THAT REALITY IS THE CENTER OF A BLACK HOLE.
A “gravitational singularity” which in many ways represents all that we still don’t know about the universe.
Surrounding each black hole, meanwhile, is an invisible boundary known as the “event horizon” that essentially marks the point of no return.
They, however, are processes so it’s conceivable, that living matter might be able to exist within a black hole without being consigned to that harsh and eternal oblivion.
It’s almost impossible to guess what it would really be like inside a
black hole.
‘No One Really Knows’
Black holes do not seem to me to be a thing or a place but a transition.
This raises an interesting question as to the matter being spewed out to the other side of what. Einstein space-time?
The black hole/ big bang events are just another of the realities. Both have to have atoms to happen and none of us, although we like everything, are made of atoms which are 90% made up of empty space know what occupies this space.
In the end, the only place we have any chance of determining reality is where there is no temperature- vibrations – gravity- matter-energy-vacuum- atomless- lightless- timeless all totally unobservable.
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QUITE RECENTLY THE BEADY ASKS: DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHAT QUANTUM CHIPS WILL DO.
It was read by more than a few punters around the world. However, to date, it seems that no one knows.
Even trying to define what we mean by “reality” is fraught with difficulty.“
Just so you know I am no Physics scientist, nor do I live in a loony bin and probably like you if I kick a rock it is real but leaving aside the question of whether your senses can be trusted, what are you actually kicking?
When it boils down to it, not a lot.
Science needs remarkably few ingredients to account for a rock: a handful of different particles, the forces that govern their interactions, plus some rules laid down by quantum mechanics.
This seems like a solid take on reality, but it quickly starts to feel insubstantial. If you take a rock apart, you’ll find that its basic constituent is atoms – Atoms, of course, are composed of smaller subatomic particles, namely protons and neutrons – themselves built of quarks – and electrons.
Otherwise, though, atoms (and hence rocks) are mostly empty space.
If an atom were scaled up so that its nucleus was the size of the Earth, the distance to its closest electrons would be 2.5 times the distance between the Earth and the sun. In between is nothing at all.
If so much of reality is built on emptiness, then what gives rocks and other objects their form and bulk?
Physics has no problem answering this question: electrons.
Quantum rules dictate that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state. The upshot of this is that, no matter how hard you try, you cannot think of the world as made up of particles held together by forces, but quantum theory tells us that these are just a mess of fields we can only properly describe by invoking the mathematics of quantum physics.
The story of our recent technological development has been one of ever-increasing computational power. At some future time, we are unlikely to be content with constructing tightly circumscribed game worlds. We will surely begin to simulate everything, including the evolutionary history that led to where we are.
Flicking the switch on such a world simulation could have fundamental ramifications for our concept of reality. If we can do it, that makes it likely it has been done before. In fact, given the amount of computing power advanced civilizations are likely to have at their fingertips, it will probably have been done a vast number of times.
So switching on our own simulation will tell us that we are almost undoubtedly in someone else’s already. We would have to think we are one of the simulated people, rather than one of the rare, exceptional non-simulated people.
Probably, anyway. There has to be a basement level of reality somewhere, in which the “master” simulation exists. It is possible that we live in that reality. Depending on its laws of physics, the basement’s computing resources are likely to be finite.
When you woke up this morning, you found the world largely as you left it. You were still you; the room in which you awoke was the same one you went to sleep in. The outside world had not been rearranged. History was unchanged and the future remained unknowable.
In other words, you woke up to reality. But what is the reality? The more we probe it, the harder it becomes to comprehend.
IT IS DIFFICULT TO REFUTE THE IDEA THAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALL THERE IS.
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