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hunter

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10. Imitation Intelligence emulates the "auto-pilot" features of the human mind.
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 09:30 AM
Apr 2

When we let our language do our thinking for us we are not creating anything new, we are just going along for the ride.

Critical thinking skills keep us from parroting all the nonsense we hear.

Theodore Sturgeon, talking about science fiction, said that ninety percent of everything is crap. By extension, so is all writing and art.

When we distill all this crap into an imitation intelligence we get 100% crap output.

There is no such thing as "Artificial Intelligence," just a poor imitation of intelligence. The output of this imitation intelligence is noise.

These Imitation Intelligences are not protecting other imitation intelligences, there is nothing there to protect. These machines are simply regurgitating language structures associated with a given query. It looks like human "thinking" because humans are frequently lazy and able to thoughtlessly regurgitate language in a similar fashion.

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