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RE: Data as "Food" for AI and Why We Need Data Sovereignty SOON
Unfortunately the only way to completely own your thoughts is to keep 'em in your head.
Cynical I know, but true. To really benefit from them though they have to be let out. Either through action or words.
This is really difficult for me to do as I'd rather just stow them away and savor them. I have learned though that they just stagnate and rot there.
I didn't say "thoughts". I said mind. The mind could be outside of your head and encrypted in computers. Your thoughts aren't "owned" merely because it's in your head but once you write it down in some form then there is a concept called "intellectual property".
I would say information isn't actually as secure inside your head as outside of your head in encrypted form. It's least secure when it's inside your head. What if you get hit on the head? The integrity of that information is damaged. What about as you age? Damaged. What about if you get interrogated? The information can be extracted from your brain. And there is a hard limit to how much information you can store in your brain.
The brain is more like RAM than a hard drive. It stores what can be used often. The brain also leaks like RAM and is not encrypted. You can split secrets between brains to some degree but not as efficiently as you can between 100 or 1000 machines.
Haha! Yeah I get all that. Really I do, but I stubbornly choose to pretend that it isn't so :-)
I also know that based on many of the deterministic models my mind really owns me, but I choose to ignore that. It gives me a sense of worth to think otherwise. Haha!
I am really fascinated though by the mind and what it really is. As far as i can tell, it is not just thoughts. It is thoughts, feelings, actions (both conscious and unconscious), reactions and memories. Most of which I'd like to think I control, but know I don't.
All of these things can be codified (more so with the advance of technology) to some extent and externalized which allows them to be outside of the purview of ourselves. Our external actions are codified every second by other minds (and now machines).
Oh well, I will shorten this diatribe. Touche, you are technically correct! But dammit I dont have to like it!
Haha! Thanks for the thoughtful article and response.
Off to figure out more delusional ways to keep me to me! :-) And have bad dreams about losing my "mind" (maybe I already lost it)!
By any chance have you ever read the works of Francis Crick (of DNA fame) on neuroscience. Don't agree with all of it (as you might guess) but compelling nonetheless.
Alarmingly, this isn't true as much today as it has been in the past. AI is learning to read minds.
We actually need to act effectively to preserve our humanity in the face of nascent and forthcoming AI capabilities. @dana-edwards is right about many things in this article, and that is one of them.
Thanks!
Yeah! I know!
Read above.
Still don't like it though :-)