Scott Adams

I'm going to continue to use it because people don't currently understand what IA is versus AI.

As it gets more information on you, it becomes more powerful.

And the more powerful it becomes, the more you realize you don't want anybody else to have access to it.

Nor do you want it to bear witness against you.

Oh, absolutely.

And first off, I want to thank you for your work.

I mean, there is not a day that doesn't go by that I'm interacting with your, you know, your...

articles i mean they are detailed they are in depth and and they take an aspect and an angle that i think almost nobody else is getting so i i absolutely see how vital you were to scott and and helping uh get this information out so thank you and um thanks i i gotta say this is worrisome

Imagine every one of your gmails, even the ones you erased, the highly personal ones, the ones when maybe you were in a crisis, is being enveloped by an AI.

And one might say, well, it's anonymized and it's put into a big pile, perhaps, but I do not think ultimately that will be the outcome.

I think to become highly personalized, it needs to know you personally.

the more intimate details it knows the more it can wow factor you and as far as replacing you in some ways yes because humanity has a number of different states of consciousness most of us are operating in our let's call it automatic mode have you ever driven a car and this in deep thought or in deep crisis or whatever is going on and all of a sudden you're home

And you're like, did I run anybody over?

How did I get here?

You know, that is an example of what I believe.

I'm a big fan of Tor Norstander's The User Illusion book.

It is probably anybody that loves Scott, I think should read this book because it'll give you an idea about how the illusion of consciousness arises.

And it's highly technical.

I read it once a year.

I've read it once a year since I followed Tor around like a groupie when he released it in the late 90s.