Session 1 November 2025

[axj]

Been very sceptic about the AIs for as long as the appeared, and also when the C's said that they are essentialy like feeding tubes. This last incident only sort of strenghtened or tested already preexisting working conclusion about them. Interacting with Ark on his blog provided numerous empirical examples of how AIs operate in misguiding and sort of a 'deceptive' way, if not being attentive enough and very well informed about the subject to be able to spot when they start to spit out lies or hallucinate and make things up out of thin air.

Last night spent a significant amount of time and energy to get the AI in question to even start making sense, i.e. it took like 5 or more iterations to stop it making wrong claims about defining an ellipse by confronting each succesive erroneous claim by contra-argument in the form of a question.

Deepseek seems to be not quite as bad, especially when you activate the "DeepThought" feature where it takes a lot of time and double-checks its own results. Doing the calculations a few times with it seems to work quite well.

Regarding the remarks coming from the C's, although I give high probability that they might bring us (closer) to truth, there have been instances where they 'confirmed' something that later turned up to not be exactly so, especially when those asking questions had rather strong assumptions and preconcieved beliefs attached to possible answers. The C's are known to respect the free will almost absolutely, even or in particular the free will or choice to believe in lies, i.e. they in principle do not mess up with the belief centers of those who communicate with them. In that respect, the C's advised us to crosscheck and test even their own claims whenever that's possible, IRC.

Yes, the C's said themselves that the early sessions are about 70% accurate. For the current sessions that number could be higher. And regarding the brown dwarf having already passed by 400 years ago, it seems unlikely that anyone at the board had strong beliefs about that - unlike religious topics in the early sessions and such.