From "Blizzard traps nearly 1,000 hikers on slopes of Mount Everest/Rescue effort under way for trekkers stranded on mountain following sudden snowstorm" (The Telegraph).
I read this headline out loud to Meade whose response exemplified what human minds can do that A.I. will never do. He said that Hillary Clinton should get herself in shape and climb Mount Everest. I knew where that came from and said we need to write a political satire in which Hillary Clinton, returning to her "Politics of Meaning" roots, gets in touch with the spirit of Sir Edmund Hillary, her (supposed) namesake, and trains to climb Mount Everest.
Normally, I would give this post my "unwritten books" tag and move on, ever onward and upward, but I yielded to the temptation to prompt Grok to outline the book. I'll just quote one sentence from the synopsis: "Disillusioned after years in the cutthroat arena of American politics, Hillary revisits her famous 1993 'politics of meaning' speech, seeking deeper purpose beyond power plays and polls. Through a series of mystical encounters—triggered by a chance discovery of an old Sherpa artifact—she connects with the spirit of Sir Edmund Hillary, the legendary mountaineer she once claimed as her namesake (despite the chronological inconsistencies)."
Grok gave me a 10-point plot, but I thought it needed something. I told Grok to work in the story of the trapped Chinese hikers. Have her get caught up with Chinese holiday folks in a blizzard and — though she never reaches the summit as planned — somehow accidentally manages to accomplish lasting peace between China and the United States. Go for an over-the-top metaphor avalanche. The Everest "icefall" is like "the glass ceiling" that Hillary can, at long last, break. Take the sexist notion that she is somehow "icy" and give her supernatural power to negotiate with ice... and thaw relations with China.
For the bookshelf marked "Unwritten."
I'm reminded of what Bill Maher asked Louis C.K., who was promoting a novel he'd written, his first novel: "But really, why get into a dying art form like that?"
The novel is "Ingram," and that link is gives me a commission if you use it to buy Louis's contribution to the dying art, which is going to die even faster if people get the sense that everything is padded out with A.I. verbiage and relentlessly sequential plot points. Meanwhile, resume your trek on the Karma Valley of life.
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The thing about AI that limits it, and may always limit it, since overcoming it will require both breakthroughs and scrotum shrinking investments in resources, is that it just can't make the kind of connections that people do so easily, using our little brains that only draw about 20W of power.
You open up a session, ask it something, it abstracts your question, and goes into its vast training which is a DB of open source, public domain human knowledge, and sticks in its thumb, and pulls out a plum, and says "what a good boy am I!" But that plum might be connected to another plum, that is still in the pie, and you want that connection to be considered, well you, the human, with your 20W brain, has to prompt it.
AI's ability to find things that exist somewhere online and to summarize material is very impressive, but so far it has not escaped the uncanny valley if asked to come up with a new thing.
I love that satire of Hillary. Too bad the publishing world is so hard core left it would never develope it into a novel. I also thought (at the very least) it would make a good satirical political column-article. But again, the leftist control all the major newspapers and magazines.
What a field day the comedians and satirists would've had with Hilllary if she'd been center-right. Instead all we got was cheap jokes about her being too serious, and a bit of wet blanket who kept Clinton from "bimbo erruptions" and fast food.
"Democrats, why did you nominate Hillary?"
"Because she's there."
Bill Maher - Isnt' the novel a dying art form. Yeah, you mean like leftwing talk shows? But I doubt Bill is a "reader".
1000 people. Good grief. A lot are support people and the guides. But still. Pretty soon they'll have to set up tram rides.
Nobody climbs Mt. everest anymore. Its too crowded.
A brain expert told me twenty-some year’s ago that computers will never top humans because we have a secret power computers can only fake: irrationality. I believe he was right. The ability to not be enslaved to logic while still being able to master logic is our gift. We can ride the rocket to the moon then get off and goof off … and in the process make real discoveries.
I think you and Meade may be suffering from long HDS. I will suggest the ending, Hillary Clinton gets the Nobel Peace Prize while Donald Trump looks on in envy and disbelief.
This could also be made as a movie, but would need to be filmed in the U.S., at Mount McKinley maybe, to avoid the new 100% tariff on foreign-made films.
“WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”
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"if asked to come up with a new thing."
There are claims that it has come up with novel solutions in programming, but you can call me a doubter. They have trained it on hundreds of millions of lines of open source code, and there are specific documented programming patterns, and people create tests for it, and if it comes up with a new, undocumented pattern, they claim "novelty," but I worked as a programmer myself, and I know damn will that not every programmer goes to a book of algorithms or design patterns to code a task. Those hundreds of millions of lines of code are probably full of "novel" algorithms created by seat of the pants programmers, so really what AI is claiming to be novel, are really undocumented gems strewn by human programmers throughout the training material.
Don't get me wrong, that's valuable too, it's just not novel, and it would be nice if the creators of these algorithms could get credit.
If you use AI to make your movie, not only could you avoid the new 100% tariff, but you could also call it Uncanny Karma Valley.
"I will suggest the ending, Hillary Clinton gets the Nobel Peace Prize while Donald Trump looks on in envy and disbelief."
Doubt. Not that Hillary gets the peace prize, it's controlled by the globalist cabal, just like the IAEA, the ICC, well, until it turned on Israel out of sheer embarrassment for its credibility, just about every international organization is controlled by these people; no, what I doubt is that Trump will be in disbelief, or even envy.
If it wasn't for mind reading Trump, what would our so-called "liberals" talk about?
AI came up with strategies to win at the game of go which human players had never used and which they could not understand or anticipate as they played out. It did this not by studying human games, but by creating its own synthetic training data by playing itself repeatedly. When computers were strictly trained on human games, the best human players were still able to beat it at times. Now they cannot. I expect this sort of self-taught expertise to develop in many AI applications, especially in areas where there are clear rules and limitations like genetics, drug design, and materials science. Computer programming also seems a likely area for novel new practices.
In my story, Hillary would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize!
"In my story, Hillary would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize!"
In my story, she lives in a hut by the river ferrying people across for small coins enough to eat, and reflects on the evil that she has done in the world for power and filthy lucre.
Why should we forget lessons that we have learned? We need to remember our mistakes, and learn from them, and if we feel like we are not allowed to think about our mistakes, like Hillary and Joe Biden, how do we ever change our thinking enough to prevent doing it again? I think it's a good idea to be able to recognize the next Hillary or Pedo Pete before they fully gain power.
"AI came up with strategies to win at the game of go which human players had never used"
Yes, that's what people always say. "Go" is a large problem space, but it's not infinite. The way this was done was to use AI to recognize decision branches that are highly probable to be dead ends, and cutting the resources required to then fully calculate the games, so sure, its a powerful thing, but the domain of all of the potential problems that a programmer might be asked to solve is, in fact, for all intents and purposes, infinite. Unlike Go.
For one thing, in Go, it is impossible for your opponent to make illegal moves, unlike real life.
Rock her up!
I am not saying that what AlphaGo did is not an impressive advance in human capability using a machine, maybe not quite the inclined plane or the lever, but still powerful, and probably programs like AlphaGo, which uses AI, but is a kind of hybrid, are the future, but it has limitations, and if you put it up against a human in a game where the rules are blurry, and can change with conditions? "Games" like war? War is more like Calvin-ball than Go.
I wanted Hillary to show in sombrero meme
and here is Professora sorta filling that lapse
Hillary climb to Everest in sherpa costume!
Could make for an interesting short movie. AI is coming along quite nicely in that regard.
However, it does lack imagination, and can only draw on what has been done before. Didn't stop the movie makers of the past few decades, though.
Well, it was the Karma Valley.
Rock her up!
Put her on ice!
Hillary collapses at the 6,000 foot elevation. Two burly men in dark suits toss her into a waiting cargo bow. The box is taken by helicopter to 16,000 feet. She is rolled out, propped up to the cheers of Sherpa's everywhere.
I had a friend who was working for one of the Everest outfitters back during the occurrence of the disastrous storm-plus-too many tourist climbers situation that Into Thin Air is written about. Horrible. She was actually supposed to be on the expedition, staying at Base Camp but nevertheless present on the mountain, but she suffered such altitude sickness that she had to be airlifted back down and then flown home to Seattle.
So she was in the office when the reports started to come in, and as the radio transmissions tailed off, and as the bodies were found.
I don't know the conditions at this Karma Valley; in the prior disaster, of course, the dead were all attempting the summit, so they were considerably higher up. But as anyone who hikes in the mountains knows, 16,000 feet is plenty to create very dangerous conditions.
Hillary lives rent free inside Meades head. We all know he's got a thing for female boomer lawyers. Sometimes it's good not to say the quiet thing out loud. 😵💫
In order for a program like AlphaGo to create new algorithms, it would be required that a human, well, team of humans, write a program that can exhaustively write the legal working code for every possible permutation of a problem space, and then use AlphGo to search through all of the possible problems, chuck the unlikely to occur ones using AI, and then run that human produced code for the remaining problem spaces.
In other words, it's not going to happen. I am rejecting this possibility using my 20W brain, BTW.
Don't they have weather forecasters in China?
"... though she never reaches the summit as planned ..."
Heh.
"Every one of the frozen corpses on top of Mount Everest was once a highly-motivated person".
The heroic Everest climbers can just have their sherpas put down the climbers' gear that the sherpas are hauling up the mountain and shovel out the path, so they can then pick back up the heroic climbers' gear and show them the way to the peak.
I blame climate change.
It's more likely Hillary was named after Hillary Brooke, a B-movie actress known for her work with Abbot and Costello.
Hillary would be shoving those Chinese trekkers off ledges and trampling them under foot to clear her path to the top. And when she finally got there, Trump would be there already, sitting in the lotus position, smiling beatifically.
"Sudden Snowstorm" my eye.
Howard said...
“Hillary lives rent free inside Meades head.“
Not rent-free, Howard. She signed a lease. Of course that doesn’t mean she always pays by the first of the month. She’s a complainer, says it’s noisy and deplorable in there, threatens that Mamdani will rent-stabilize the place. Is it my fault the previous occupants stenciled the Steele dossier all over the ceiling and left their bleach bits in all the closets? And what’s with all the hammering? Tylenol doesn’t grow on trees you know. That’s all out of pocket. MY pocket!
If you're there, and can't handle a snow storm, you have no business being there.
You need to add a scene where the pope and Buddha appear in the clouds above the valley and bounce a block of ice together on a big tarp in a form of mock combat that will determine if Hillary’s fate is to be determined by dogma or by stochastic universal nothingness. The former will win and the Buddha will slink away saying, I’ll get you next time buddy.
In 1972, a helicopter flew 40,820 ft, setting a record for how high a helicopter can fly
Once again people showing no respect for nature pay the price.
"If you're there, and can't handle a snow storm, you have no business being there."
Yeah. I'm not a mountain climber, but have been "stranded" in the backcountry by a snowstorm. You fire up the teapot, get out the rum, and wait it out.
hillary is beyond satire, one is reminded of a simpson episode where homer climps some tall peak, because of an energy bar promotion,
They probably should have just gone to disneyworld, like hillary.
"Ann Althouse said...
In my story, Hillary would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize!"
Well, she woulda ended the Israel hamas confict by destroying one or the other.
We came, we saw, they died. hahahaha
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