The Goal Post Episode 62 - Rob in Japan Pt. 2 / AI, Luddite Fallacy and the Human Factor Revisited

After a month break, we are back with our longest and possibly most energetic episode.

Rob is recording from Japan again and we talk about his time there, including his visits to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki monuments, also about how the recent upper house election in Japan and how it conveys the sentiment of the desire to restrict immigration and tourism there, which should be considered a wakeup call for tourists to adopt the idea of "When in Rome", and respect the authority of a place foreign to them in a civil context.

We talk, yet once more, about AI and the Luddite Fallacy regarding the fear that it will render human jobs obsolete, because we keep having to say it over and over again as too many, even in our own movement, fear the supposed impending takeover. We hope to provide rational ways to regard the so-called AI including knowing that it is only a parroter of intelligence, rational ways to determine the true nature of intelligence, which brings us to privacy and non-omniscience as the key to sentience, as well as "instantial" bursts of intelligent work as with our current AI softwares versus the cumulation of life experience as crucial to the human intelligence factor. We will also talk about the merits of "learn to code" and we need it now more than ever, because AI can't write good code, contrary to popular belief, and over reliance on it will lead to incompetence and disaster (we specifically bring up the Tea App and its debacle - a breach but not a hack.)

We talk about the passing of Tamiya CEO Shunsaku Tamiya, and on the model building industry the company was dedicated to, and the merits of hobbies and the solo creative process crucial to humanity's existential well-being especially for men. We also have followup on the Australian Outback incident of German tourist Karolina Vilga.

Zoe McLellan