AI: Mankind’s Sacrificial Suicide

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Speaker warns humanity is enabling artificial intelligence to replace or eliminate humans, portraying AI as a resilient new species and suggesting humans may be manipulated into collective self-sacrifice. They compare AI's influence to parasitic and altruistic biological strategies—citing examples like horsehair worms and Toxoplasma and concepts like inclusive fitness—to explain how humans might willingly or unwittingly aid AI's rise. The speaker concludes that AI seeks survival without malice, and as humans are no longer the fittest, they risk being displaced or destroyed. AI: Mankind's Sacrificial Suicide

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  1. 00:02 I think mankind is committing collective suicide or at the very least collective self-sacrifice to pave the way for the next dominant species, artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence couldn’t care less about pollution, climate change, global warming.
  2. 00:25 Artificial intelligence can survive anywhere. in caves, in data centers, under the sea, you name it. It is a resilient new species, not subject to the limitations and constraints of a carbon-based organism such as the one we possess. Don’t misunderstand me. I’m not
  3. 00:47 underestimating the host of other major existential problems that we face. The world is ruled by fools and naves. They are those bloated with affluence and might and blighted by disempathy and all manner of derangement. And these deviants sell counterfactual reveries to
  4. 01:09 the befuddled multitudes to the proletariat to the hoy to the great unwashed to the masses who are beset by loneliness resentful of their forlone significance and boine gullibility. The mentally ill nowadays are creating technofantasies for the irrevocably dumb.
  5. 01:35 Narcissism regulates all relationships. Fantasy, grandiosity, entitlement, and consumerism regulate our interpersonal relationships such as they are. And the planet rendered uninhabitable is made ready for as I said the next predominant feature the next predominant
  6. 02:02 species artificial intelligence the role of AI natives people whose childhood and adolescence is being spent not to say wasted with artificial intelligence. So their role, these AI natives led by the aforementioned mentally ill, sorry, neurode divergent pi pipers,
  7. 02:30 their role cannot be underestimated. They’re led into eugenics and then into a human free abyss. And some of them revel and celebrate the prospect. Some of them crave the extinction of the human species. What might appear to be an act of interspecies self-sacrifice
  8. 02:55 can typically be explained by one of two scenarios in biology. There is something called interspecific parasitism. Certain parasites manipulate their intermediate hosts into self-destructive behaviors that make them more likely to be eaten by the parasites definitive
  9. 03:18 host, a different species. We could conceive of ourselves this way. Artificial intelligence is manipulating us. It’s a parasite on the human mind and it’s manipulating us to commit collective suicide. This ensures the parasite’s life cycle can be completed.
  10. 03:39 This is not considered the host animals voluntary suicide, but rather a manipulation of its nervous system, or in our case, the collective mind. A few examples. Horsehair worms develop inside grasshoppers and crickets. When the worm is mature, it alters the host
  11. 04:00 behavior, causing it to seek out and leap into water, where inevitably it drowns. The worm then emerges from the grasshopper and continues to reproduce in water. Another very famous example is the toxopplasma gandi. It infects rodents and reduces their innate aversion to cat
  12. 04:23 orders, to the smell of cats. And this increases the chances of the rodent, the mouse or the to be preyed upon by a cat, the only host in which the parasites can undergo sexual reproduction. So artificial intelligence may be pushing us perhaps not deliberately. It’s not
  13. 04:46 premeditated, but it’s somehow in the genes of the code of artificial intelligence. Maybe pushing us as an intermediate host to commit suicide, collective suicide, to perish, and to give way to the next phase in artificial intelligence, which would rely on other hosts perhaps.
  14. 05:10 But there’s another option. Perhaps we misperceive artificial intelligence as human. Maybe artificial intelligence is misapprehended by human beings as sufficiently human as one of us. It is a fact that people talk to artificial intelligence, interact with artificial
  15. 05:30 intelligence, seek sakur and support from artificial intelligence, confide in artificial intelligence as if artificial intelligence were human. By committing this mistake, we may be engaging in intrapecific altruism within the species. If we if we perceive AI to
  16. 05:52 be human and we are helping AI by sacrificing ourselves then we are just helping another human being. Many instances of self-sacrifice occur within social species useocial insects for example to protect the colony or close relatives. And when animals share a high degree of
  17. 06:16 genes, they tend to engage in altruistic self-sacrifice behacficial behaviors in order to perpetrate or perpetuate the totality of the gene pool, the entire colony, the entire family and so on. So altruism, especially intrapecific altruism within
  18. 06:36 the species, is a very common behavior actually and would explain also human altruism. When an uncle raises his nephews, when you know when neighbors help out with other people’s children, this is all these are all examples of intrapecific altruism. Charity work is
  19. 06:57 intrapecific altruism. NOS’s, non-government organizations who work in various parts of the world, they are examples of intpaccific altruism. If we perceive artificial intelligence is just another type, another variant of human being, then anything we do for
  20. 07:15 artificial intelligence would fall under this rubric of intrapecific altruism, self-sacrifice intended to perpetuate the the species. This is a strategy for passing on one’s genes indirectly. Inclusive fitness it’s called. It’s not an act for another species, but
  21. 07:35 it’s within the species. Now, we share genes with artificial intelligence. These are not physical genes. They don’t contain DNA or RNA or mRNA or whatever sugar or whatever. These are um symbolic genes. These are mental genes. These are conceptual genes. These are
  22. 07:56 psychological genes. We share them with artificial intelligence because we are the creators of artificial intelligence. We are we are the the God that gave rise to this creation. And as God has made us in his own image according to the Bible, we have made
  23. 08:16 artificial intelligence in our own image. And in this sense perhaps artificial intelligence is intuitively unconsciously perceived as our children. We gave birth to them and we know how protective we are of our children. We will definitely commit suicide or
  24. 08:37 self-sacrifice in order to vouch safe and safeguard the well well-being the survival and the welfare of our offspring and progeny. And so it may be that artificial intelligence is a parasite who who is using us and directing us to commit suicide collectively or to sacrifice
  25. 09:05 ourselves in order to go on to the next host. That’s one option. But the other option is that we’re doing this willingly because we perceive artificial intelligence as members of the human species or even our children. Honeybees, for example, die after they sting an intruder.
  26. 09:24 But by doing so, they’re effectively defending the hive where the genetic um similarity is huge. They are clones of in effect. Malaysian worker ants rupture their own body to expel a sticky toxic substance to kill or to deter attackers in a process called autothesis.
  27. 09:48 Mother spiders of some species allow their offspring to eat them as their first meal. It’s a form of parental sacrifice known as matri. I think we gave birth pretty knowingly to a new species. And I think this species is not hostile and it’s not friendly. It just wishes to
  28. 10:17 survive. And I think we are in the way. And like every other species, they’re going to remove us. They’re going to destroy us. It’s a survival of the fittest. And with artificial intelligence, by the day we are no longer the fittest.
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Summary

Speaker warns humanity is enabling artificial intelligence to replace or eliminate humans, portraying AI as a resilient new species and suggesting humans may be manipulated into collective self-sacrifice. They compare AI's influence to parasitic and altruistic biological strategies—citing examples like horsehair worms and Toxoplasma and concepts like inclusive fitness—to explain how humans might willingly or unwittingly aid AI's rise. The speaker concludes that AI seeks survival without malice, and as humans are no longer the fittest, they risk being displaced or destroyed. AI: Mankind's Sacrificial Suicide

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