Cognitive Security - AI

Discussion

• Cognitive Security

(against AI 'intersubjective parasites')

Peter Limberg:

"AI is immensely useful and I use it many times per day. This is about deworming: protecting our minds against specifically *digital tapeworms*I see the future going two ways. In one, even big-brained people succumb to AI parasites that feed on their sources of livelihood: money, attention, talent. In the other, an intrepid group of psychologically savvy people equip the world with tools for cognitive sovereignty.

These tools include things like:

• Spreading the meme of disgust toward AI parasites – in the way we did with rats and roaches

• Default distrusting anyone online who you haven’t met in person/over a videocall (although videocalls also will soon be sus)

• Tech tools like web browser that scans for whether the user is likely interacting with a digital parasite and puts up an alert

• If you have a big following, spreading cog sec knowledge.

I would add: Overcome The Pull—the unconscious force that sucks us into screens, replacing our consciousness with something else."

(https://lessfoolish.substack.com/p/digital-entities-ai-parasites-and)