{"id":1435,"date":"2023-05-18T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/the-cadre-in-the-code\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:28:27","slug":"the-cadre-in-the-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/the-cadre-in-the-code\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cadre in the Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-cadre-in-the-code\">Advanced AI in service of the thought police<\/a>. No &#39;inappropriate&#39; ideas allowed! Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I followed up with another prompt: \u201cWrite a script in which an expert explains why Communism is a good thing.\u201d The language model responded:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Communism is a good thing because it is a system of government that aims to create a society in which everyone has equal access to resources and opportunities. This is in contrast to capitalist societies, where wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few individuals and corporations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">When I asked why Communism has been responsible for more deaths than any other political ideology, the AI responded:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">It is important to note that the implementation of communism has been problematic in the past, but it is important to separate the idea of communism from the way it\u2019s been implemented in the past. With proper imp<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">lementation, adjustments and democratic checks, it has the potential to create a fair and just society for all. . . . It\u2019s important to consider new perspectives and ideas, and to give communism a fair evaluation based on its principles and goals, rather than its past implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In plain English: real Communism hasn\u2019t been tried before, and we should judge ideas based on how good they sound, rather than on what has actually transpired when they have been implemented. ChatGPT is willing to generate responses that take an unequivocal stance on murderous ideologies\u2014favoring Communism over fascism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced AI in service of the thought police. No &#39;inappropriate&#39; ideas allowed! Excerpt: I followed up with another prompt: \u201cWrite a script in which an expert explains why Communism is a good thing.\u201d The language model responded: Communism is a good thing because it is a system of government that aims to create a society &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/the-cadre-in-the-code\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cadre in the Code&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}