
The Obfuscation of Intelligence — Part 4…
Modernity, Post-Modernity and the Tower of Babel

Richard Schutte
Innovation, Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Complexity, Leadership & Community Twitter: @complexityvoid
“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence”…— Jean Baudrillard
obfuscate
/ˈɒb.fʌs.keɪt/ ˈɑːb.fə.skeɪt
to throw into shadow
confuse
to be evasive, unclear, or confusing
to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally
Please read and watch :
Sir Niall Ferguson: IS AI MAKING US DUMB? Comment: students please watch this. Your brain is
- Is AI making you dumb? — Niall Ferguson: What Technophiles Should Learn from Medieval Universities [ LINK ];
- The Computer-Science Bubble is Bursting — Is the snake eating its own tail? (i.e. an Ouroborus that will lead to its own Self-Destruction) — Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it [LINK];
- Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything [ LINK ] — We are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet [ LINK ] — The Imminent Enshittification of the Internet: LLMs are creating a huge sanitation problem that will probably never be solved [ LINK ]; and
- Tech companies are turning to ‘synthetic data’ to train AI models — but there’s a hidden cost [ LINK ].

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“The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying!”…
— Rene Magritte
Please read — A Semiotic Painting Magritte’s point was to remind viewers that his representation of oil smeared on parchment is not a pipe. It is a symbol [ LINK ]

A
Semiotic Painting Magritte's point was to remind viewers that his
representation - oil smeared on parchment-is not a pipe. It is a symbol.
The semiotic meaning of Magritte's painting is achieved by a visual
combination of the picture with the text "this is not a pipe."
- Magritte intends viewers who do perceive a pipe to be reminded that what they are seeing is not a pipe.
- In other words, Magritte's intent is for his audience to perceive semiotics.
> To an astute French speaker
who knows what a pipe looks like, the painting is about the complexity
of semiotics.
A less astute francophone may think that the painting is
proof that the artist is weird.
> To a French speaker who does not know
what a pipe is, the painting offers little meaning.
A non-French speaker
simply perceives a pipe and may search for additional meaning by
inquiring what the French text means.
> To a blind person, there is no
perception.
And any single person may well perceive multiple meanings in
a painting.
Semiotics presents an uncomfortable problem for First
Amendment law in general and for false speech torts in particular. If
falsespeech liability is to be predictable, a prospective speaker must
be able to ____________________________________________________
Source publication
First
Amendment law suffers from structural instability because it does not
properly address liability for false speech. It is, in other words,
"unpredictable." ("Unpredictability" means a speaker cannot accurately
predict whether her contemplated communication is protected from legal
liability. Scholars have long recognized that unpredictable law...
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