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<< Where have all the Humans Gone? Long Time Passing>>

—— (dis)Location of (dis)Information ——

Are there three orders of what we could label as “Location Jailbreak?” While seemingly unrelated, these orders of Location Jailbreak could be a category of workarounds that enable humans to confuse other humans about:

  1. (dis)location-information,
  2. location of (non-)(-dis)information,
  3. locating a human,
  4. locating the humane or
  5. locating what is or isn’t human?

Most graspable, present-day instances could be labeled (with a wink) as a Second-order Location Jailbreak such as this one: Google Maps Hacks : lots of “humans” on location, and yet where have all the humans gone? I think to categorize virtual private networks within this order as well. Instances such as discussed in the 3rd reference here below could fit this set too: “fooling social media platforms AI recommendation algorithms by streaming from the street near rich neighborhood… fake GPS…” (Polyakov 2023): lots of humans but where has the location gone?

The First-order Jailbreak (with a wink): the digging of a physical tunnel out of an enclosed location, resulting in dirty fingernails and the temporarily assumed continued presence by unassuming guards which then is followed by erratic gatekeepers once the dis-location has been unveiled. Lots of humans at one location but where has that one gone?

The Third-order disturbance of “location” (again with a wink-of-seriousness) could be at a meta-level of human perception and of loss of ability to accurately locate any human(e), due to the loss of “truth,” destabilized sense of reality, and the loss of the historic human-centeredness (on a pedestal): an example is our collective reaction to “DAN” or “Sydney,” or other telepresenced, “unhinched” alter-ego’s dislocated “in” LLMs & triggered via prompt-finesse / -manipulation / -attacks. This order of confusion of location is also symbolized in a *.gif meme of a Silverback gorilla, who seems to be confusing location of another gorilla with his reflection in a mirror. The LLM (e.g., many an iteration of chatbots) is the human mirror of meta-location confusion. Lots of dislocations and (de)humanization, and where has the humane gone?

Here, in this Third-order Jailbreak, we could locate the simulacra of both location and of the human(e).

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Sources

1.
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing

2.
The clever trick that turns ChatGPT into its evil twin

3.
A February 2023 post on Twitter via LinkedIn and Alex Polyakov

4.
an interesting take via Twitter on The Verge article covering the AI Mirror Test

5.
My first consideration on Twitter of the three orders of jailbreaks.

6.
Naomi Wu’s post on Twitter as referenced by Alex Polyakov on LinkedIn

7.
Simon Weckert reporting on the Google Map Hack.

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Dadalus, Icarus, Monty, Disney & Verses


Should the Multiverse follow the reality of laws of physics, deities, of Monty or laws of Disney?

One compared with the other: which one would create more or less experiences of unethical proportions & augmented alienating disconnect? The physically dropping of the ball, the cartoonish fall, the proverbial drop of the ball, Icarus’ fall as a ball or a bold dropping, as the character in Monty Python’s sketch, stepping out of the board meeting’s window as the solution to negotiation? Free Guy’s ball? A link between physics & ethics

One might ponder how it is that physical reality might create unethical virtual spaces

Somehow my intuition screams at me that this is so obvious that it should not be questioned. I am in luck though. I am not an expert on ethics, nor on falling with little physical consequence. I have limits, you see

Let’s take the biologist J.B.S. Haldane, as our guiding rail. He gore-ishly premonishened it in 1926: “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; &, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object. Divide an animal’s length, breadth, and height each by ten; its weight is reduced to a thousandth, but its surface only to a hundredth. So the resistance to falling in the case of the small animal is relatively ten times greater than the driving force”

This idea opens up a can of worms. A meeting, in physical reality, with a less-than-humane boss, might result in fists flying or cups hurdling. Will the unethical abuse, supported by the physical laws, exist in a multiverse’s boss-fight? Or, will the laws be artifiwashed, virtuwashed, realwashed?

The latter could mean that reality will be claimed but something will feel ever so slightly off. Perhaps this will be in the manner of Disney’s sensibility of telling the story of the real by making an object bounce in a most exuberant manner & deformation, so for the audience to sense reality ad absurdum

Besides those of physics we could consider the more fluid laws of biology. Will the ideal multiverse have completed the eradication of species’ diversity or will its creator have “an inordinate fondness of beetles, ” to continue quoting Haldane. If not for beetles, how many stars will one be able to see in that imagined version of the multiverse?

Trivialities, you say? Then let us debate the designed environments & how minimalist, open or maximalist & cubicled one’s physical monoverse should compare to maximized performance in its multiverse counterpart

Russell, in reponse to Haldane’s 1924’s Daedalus, felt compelled that science could be used to “promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, …, was destroyed by his rashness.”

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Epilogue — …and for the poetic justice of it all:

“What are his nets and gins and traps; and how does he surround him With cold floods of abstraction, and with forests of solitude, To build him castles and high spires, where kings and priests may dwell” (William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion via Ludlow, 2007)


References:

“Free Guy”(2021). https://www.wired.com/story/would-the-free-guy-inflatable-bubble-protect-a-real-person/

Ludlow, P. & Mark Wallace. (2007). “The Second Life Herald. The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse.”

Haldane, J. B. S., & Dronamraju, K. R. (1963). Book reviews: “The Truth about Death”. Journal of Genetics, 58(3), 450–464. doi:10.1007/bf02986312 

Haldane, J. B. S.(1926). On Being the Right Size. https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRightSize.pdf

Haldane, J. B. S. (1924, 1928) Daedalus; or, Science and the Future.

Russell, (1924). Icarus or The Future of Science

The latter two might also be of interest to those open to contemplate transhumanism and the likes.

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The Monoverse: a Never-singular Institute


one could find metaphorical keys to open visualized doors, and activate figurative wobbly wormholes, into proverbial parallel universes, of meaning-making fabric, that might ever so probabilistically, prop-up one’s monoverse/universe of models of thinking; only as if being those “…secretive sides of our nature”

Without the proper keys (imagined by oneself & the many ‘other’) it could make it perceived as impossible to be(come) who one “is” in some of that collection of meaning-making universes, which one might refer to as the ‘social’. The latter is a subset; a noticeable one yet, still a subset

The opening of proverbial doors is not so much an escapism but rather an airing out of stuffiness in one’s thought without having to throw out (while, by less than snap-of-finger, it is an option to simply let go) the proverbial meaning-clinging furniture: a letting in of a breeze of “what ifs” without having to deconstruct one monoverse/universe for another —simply reinstitutionalizing fabric for another patterned fabric

‘Institutions’, of which, e.g., ‘professionalism’ could be one of, are as boxes; are as “monoverses”

These monoverses are examples of what imaginatively could be vast universes (expanding, shrinking, big banging) with surprising metaphorical physical laws

At times, various monoverses are claimed to be incompatible. Yet the act of claiming is the act of entering yet another monoverse, known as Claim-of-Falsity-or-Actuality, and there to hold one’s ground: the falsification or reinforcements of “boundaries”

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The monoverses, as if wobbly boxes, are found to be silent & beautiful, to those holding the packaging tape; they (“they” is the non-conspiratorial “they” and includes the “you” and the “I”) might be ignoring the imaginable spaces in-between

The interesting (and dare I say, the nurturingly #humane) about these proverbial keys, universes, propping-up one’s monoverse, are not the “keys”, nor the “universes” themselves

The interesting is the in-betweens; those mental spaces in-between the pseudo-quantifiable role, act, persona, character, institution, as if clean datasets

The in-betweens are not revolutionary since they can only exist by not negating, diminishing, ignoring or debasing that what is enabling to be in-between of. That stated, the borderlines are negotiated; feverishly and infinitely

The institutional, the professional & so on, can be dynamically experienced & do not always have to be, as we are experiencing, in the here & now, with this who nor what

‘Ephemerally-adapt’: a new compound word that could be implying the opening of those so-called doors or imagined windows, and letting it imaginatively breeze a bit; only then, and due to whatever impetus toward whichever aim (if any identifiable one at all), could one perhaps imagine of what a healthy, humane multiverse might be.

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<< Fossil >>


bring back the dead
liquified, condensed,
hardened gaseous:
a storm is a comin’

as if spirits of the disturbed
rattled fear from the crevasses
of our collective stories
as oranges squeezed

biting at the sight
of rationale and reason
rationing space with
our obsession to live
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we mine our greed
chaining ourself to one rock
in an expanse of the infinite
in the vastness of
soils and spoils

for when will your obsessive work
fuel you away
from making
fossils of yourself?

— animasuri’21
Nov. 2021

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Magical Scientisms

[this text uses sarcasm as a literary machine; it is not to be equated with reality nor with the author]


We rob the human from its complexity by equating each individual to being a(s a) machine:

a human as clockwork = a machine; because at that time they did not know of 3D holograms & quantum computers yet. The gearbox and automaton were the next best thing.

a human as a replica = a machine which pretends to believe in a superior original; somewhere (metaphor for that father-figure, hero, leader with god-like features, that ideal specimen) 

a human as an avatar = a bio-mimicked machine; perhaps over time to be reversed to be that bio-mass that is controlled by a representation in a metaverse

a human (as a) resource = a machine put to good use by external definition; “good” for someone, somewhere; at least, for some time; at the least resistance, and least cost as possible

a human as a profile = a 2D machine to operate another machine as if more for “you”; desirably or undesirably so.

a human as a dataset = a machine that needs an external engine to operate so to enable the machinery-of-extraction; as gutting a machine for parts

a human as a substitutable = a mass-produced closed-hardware machine with built-in obsolescence

…all of these machines are categorizable as variants of a passive system that is triggered for a collection of only desired responses to exacted external stimuli. 

In between its input and output lies a black box that should and must process toward the desired output; the less process the better; the faster process the better. If its output is not desirable the machine is broken; or so it is to its owner, its user or its creator. Solution? Dispose of the machine (since circular economy is not yet scaled & ubiquitous for all machines out there):

Through the above-mentioned owner’s lens: A human as an owned machine is enslaved (= robot)

Through a user’s lens: A human as a used machine is a utility (= like water, gas, electricity)

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Through a creator’s lens: A human as a created machine is either trendy and novel, or up for auction, or simply passé ( = that before the next best creative design or desired upgrade)

Only, …there is a small issue:

…non of the above is exactly the case.

Or at least the metaphor is a reductionist metaphor and not to be confused with what it maps out. The human proverbial black box does not do this, or that. It doesn’t  deliver this nor that, at all times; efficiently nor unwaveringly

Yes, regrettably, this observation might be annoying to some who aspire to an absolute solution to their grievances, within which the defunct machined human does not fit. Oops. Now what?

That equation of the human as a machine is hubris if the metaphor means that, that what it refers to is built by us by means of orchestrated plan, can be invented by us, manufactured (in consent, form and function) by us, can be fully controlled by us, reverse-engineered or rebuilt in all its details; by us. Note: “us” is thus a collective of machines designing, creating, decompiling collectable machines. Nah… not entirely, no. Though…:

The main concern might not be whether we are machines or not. Let’s assume we are “machines” rather than *machines*. Let’s assume we are highly complex machines; at least through its own observation of itself. We, who look at ourselves as being machines, are not there yet (if ever) to truly understand our own machinery, unless we like to melt or be blinded à la Icarus by those (intrinsic, extrinsic and in-between) attributes, mechanisms, sub-systems, asynchronous or atypical systems and processes we had not foreseen nor calculated for.

To equate us humans as machines, even metaphorically, might, to date, still be too premature. It might be magical scientism, given materialist form, through a rhetoric, perverting engineering. It might be offensive to both the forms of scientific methodologies and engineering practices, as applications of the scientific methodologies, alike. 

While evolution might be metaphored (yes a newly machined verb) as such, I regret to say that the human is not the application of the observed nor the experimented (alone). The human can be observed (and, yes, is experimented upon) which can allow for applications based on, or for, or within, or in-between, that same human and that other human and that in (idealized) harmony with their environments.

Seeing the human as (if) a machine might be confusing cause and effect. It might be equating the mapped human with the world of (being and becoming) human(e) well-beings.

be patient fellow machines, perhaps one day, if we play nicely, and diligently, we might rejoice. Until then — with love, well-being and life— only human.