Salomon Ligthelm

Salomon Ligthelm Instagram – I’ve been reading a lot more about the SINGULARITY – we’re only a couple of years away from machine being more intelligent than man. We’re maybe about 20 years away from AI being as intelligent as THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. OKAY – SIDENOTE…I made the film for AYIA, as a sort of Garden of Eden meta narrative – the monolith representing the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. In that narrative Adam and Eve were told not touch or eat of the tree – I initially thought it was so that they won’t become like God (something that God wanted to reserve for himself), but I think it’s because UNBRIDLED KNOWLEDGE would ultimately destroy them. It’s a little strangely coincidental that the device that is causing mental instability (our iPhones – essentially a portal to the knowledge of EVERYTHING…GOOD AND EVIL and everything in between) is the symbol of a half eaten APPLE – Garden of Eden story much???) OKAY BACK TO THE SINGULARITY. Elon Musk reckons that the only way for humans not to be oppressed by our own creation (the machines) as we inevitably draw closer to the SINGULARITY, is to keep up with them – to become BIONIC. We already are – via our phones. Our phones are extensions of ourselves. But we suffer a bandwidth problem. We can only output (and also, but perhaps to a lesser extent – input) as fast as our fingers can type…so he’s developing technology where our mind can be linked to our devices (via his NEUROLINK tech) – to make the bandwidth a non issue. Think about our relationship to technology now – even in low bandwidth – we’re slave to it, and so many of us are so depressed/anxious/mentally pummeled by it – which I think is why the Biblical Story of the Garden of Eden makes so much more sense to me today. After the Fall, Adam and Eve were told to work, and in the work/toil/struggle they would find meaning and purpose. As we reach the SINGULARITY robots will do the work, HUMANS will either be wiped out if we don’t become BIONIC (Elon’s theory), or we’ll become God-like without the need to work – so we’ll lose our sense of meaning. Thus the only game we’ll play is the one of “pleasure” – which quickly deteriorates into nihilism, or perhaps is the evidence of it. | Posted on 15/May/2021 17:24:01