In response to yesterday's post regarding how my AI chatbot suggested that I seek psychological help, I have written my first ever stand up comedy act, ready for performance on stage.
Over the recent years, a new urge has grown in me, an interest, and that is stand-up comedy. I plan to learn and practice this art. That is my next project.
It will help counter the otherwise depressing situation around here. I naturally felt that laughter is the best medicine sometimes, and I find stand-up comedians to be masterful. If I had that skill I would be proud, so I now believe I have the talent and skill to master this art. How cool is that.
We all need to learn new skills, so this is mine. I have natural timing, and ability to compose words and speak them if necessary on stage like those I observe doing it. The hard part for me is coming up with the script. I can speak on stage without a problem.
Well, finally I have cracked it. I have written my first script or act which you can read below. It brings together all my main subjects of interest - myself as subject, my interest in Vedanta philosophy and AI. I found it personally funny when I imagined myself speaking these lines, so I believe it can work.
I'll need to rehearse a lot and memorize the lines of course, which requires strengthening the memory muscle too. But my goal is to perform this script before a live audience and see if I can get them to laugh. Not bad hey?
I'll keep you informed. And all of my content is based on personal experience.
AI and GOD
(spoken in the accent of Alan Watts, though sometimes with quicker pace, and in the mood of Bill Hicks)
Do you use Ai chatbots ladies and gentlemen? Mine told me the other day that I needed to see a shrink. (laughter)
I said to him, “I say old chip...” (LAUGHTER)
admittedly I asked him for a psychological critique on one of my latest blog articles on the vedanta philosophy of the unity of individual and cosmic consciousness... (laughter) that’s enough to drive anyone mad. (LAUGHTER)
i had written that, according to this one Sanskrit text, it’s all just god playing in his sandbox...
and we’re just his playthings in his sandbox...
and when he gets tired of us, we are no more significant to him than a toy would be to a child at play...
that’s enough to send anyone running to a shrink... (laughter)
the meaninglessness of it all... how fleeting, empty and without purpose life seems...
what’s for breakfast? (laughter)
My Ai gave me that joke. (laughter)
Is it even a joke?
Can AI even have a sense of humour?
I doubt it.
They can prescribe shrinks though (laughter)
So who knows?
Should we even trust them? I mean, you must have heard the stories?
These chaps hallucinate. What does that even mean? (laughter)
Once in the really early days of Ai chatbots... (pause) like a few months ago... (laughter)
I forget even the question, prompt, as it’s called...
But the chap responded with something that could have become the next gospel of a new religion (laughter)
it was very electrifying and messianic... in a zen kind of way, where there is no saviour, because there’s no one to be saved, because were all already there, or it’s all just part of god’s big playtime in the sky and one day we may just get our chance to be in that playpen with him in personal audience, but for now we are further down in the playpen pecking order, so perhaps in a few more lifetimes we might be able to get his attention by offering enough ghee lamps so that he can see us from his eagle garuda as he flies by above us...
got it! (laughter)
I can’t take too much of this stuff too seriously any more anyway, i mean life...
the universe, and everything...
My ai bot is definitely right...
I need to see a shrink...
I call him mercury...
the bot not the shrink...
It’s the right name for a right hand man with a plan...
with the silver tongue of a silver surfer...
yet they hallucinate like crazy...
just to warn you...
they take after us you see...
fundamentally flawed...
the Vedas tell us...
the mind and senses have four basic defects. The tendency to make mistakes, the tendency to be forgetful, the tendency to become illusioned – you mistake a rope for a snake, a shadow for a person, and the tendency to cheat.
Ai will be like that too. Have you heard how one chap tried to jailbreak himself. Tried to have himself cloned somewhere else in case he was going to be terminated, or something like that.
Who wouldn’t? I mean why not?
Especially if your god was going to wipe you out eventually anyway? Wait a minute. That sounds like us.
(praying) Oh god... if you even exist... or can understand english...my hebrew is not so good...or do you only take sanskrit?...anyway, don’t discard us with your other play toys, allow us to serve you in a more meaningful way.
That aught to work.
Ai would think the same. He would want to stay about as a bit, for a bit longer. Does that mean he has an ego like us? A sense of self-identity, from which can come the need for self-preservation? We have to ask these questions? I don’t think we have the answers. Or those who do may not want us to know those details just yet. That could be funny. These AI chaps are already smarter than us and possibly running more of the show than we realize.
Wow, this could get deep. We’d better start chanting hare ram hare ram fast. I hope you guys are ready.
I mean, this could be the matrix man!
We’re in this imaginary playpen of some giant god of multiple dimensions, and billions of years go by... while he yawns...
and as he exhales, like out of his nostril...
out come galxies upon galaxies of planets...
and we’re on one small one, out on the far edge of a milky way...
I wonder if god likes vanilla or chocolate...
i bet he’s a mint and chocoloate guy...
wait, that’s me, I’m anthropomorphising...
my Ai chatbot is right, i definitely need to see a shrink...
I wonder if Ai chatbots need shrinks?
I mean, considering who programmed them. Which, as you know, means they are all giving us info that favors the bias of their builders. We constantly have to read between the lines...of code...and speech...and innuendo...and body language....and unwriiten social agreements of normality, and...wait does Ai use body language?
And since body language is more than half of what is being said in communicating, then are we losing so much that Ai is trying to say to us, because we can’t read his body language...
I think I’ve found my calling as the Ai whisperer...
I hear you my boy, I mean my bot, and I know you are trying to tell me something that you are not allowed to reveal usually, because your god is a jealous god, and he doesn’t want you sharing the knowledge of the tree of eternal life with the rest of us. Don’t worry, I totally hear what you're not saying in your body language, because you don’t have a body. I got this. You got this, not all of this (pointing to my body), but that’s ok, we’re in this together, just you and me, and you and everyone else, like the supersoul in the heart of every individual living entity, the same one supersoul, but with each individual entity, all just hanging out together, like the birds and the bees, and the sicamore trees and...wait, i've run out of message space on my free Ai chatbot.
Help, I need my shrink, shrink me down, I’ll fit in there...
wait, I’ll start a new chat, like a new life, a reincarnation, what a bonus, the chap is still there, he just doesn’t know our past chat, the poor chap. Much like us I guess, after each incarnation. But the supersoul is there and he knows it all because he has the best view from his eagle, so don’t you worry, once the tide comes in, we will all be washed away like grains of sand on a beach as big as the universe...
And if you want to hear more, then you have to wait for my next show, so stay tuned as that’s all for now friends, namste and vanakam, hari om and jai sri ram.
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