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Unapologetically Me's avatar

I woke up at 3 a.m. PST and couldn't get back to sleep so began scrolling through my email alerts. I opened yours.

This is a very interesting article indeed.

As soon as I began hearing and seeing articles about AI, my brain immediately said "NO WAY". I'm NEVER going there!!

Fear factor kicked in.

Your article assuages my fears.

I've been researching alternative health modalities for about 20 years now. That began with "cancer" research.

Initially, I purchased hard-to-find (highly censored) books on "cancer" because people I knew were suffering from one form or another. (FYI: Those people have all since passed...)

I discovered many obscure (alleged) "cures".

When you mentioned "apricot kernals"? Yes. I remember.

I discovered B17 and laetrile. If memory serves, I read an anecdote about a group of folks who live in a mountainous region of is it Russia? I forget but....There is no "cancer" amongst those mountain people who grow apricots. They dry and grind the inner kernels of the fruit and consume them.

Interesting Stuff like that.

So, I got my hands on a bottle of B17. (Have never purchased the seeds.)

Also: data on apple seeds. So: I began chewing 6 or so apple seeds every time I ate an apple. As prevention. ("Cyanide- BAD"...😉) Etc.

I am now 66. I am healthy. (As far as I know. I do not "go to doctors" so I've no clue what they would find, if I did.)

My son though? Not so much.

He is 27 years old and double jabbed. (24.5 years old at the time he was Pfizered). He was recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease as well as rheumatoid arthritis.

I've been studying his autoimmune diseases (Necrotizing Scleritis is the one which nearly destroyed an eye before he was finally properly diagnosed by an opthalmologist in the hopes that I can find ways to help him manage, if not cure his diseases, without the necessity for prednisone as well as a chemotherapy drug which is used on cancer patients to suppress the immune system.

Anyway: thank you VERY much for writing this article regarding how you've used AI to research what ails you and how to (possibly) mitigate your health issues.

I have more work to do, but thanks to you: I have a new tool to work with.

I wish you much research success, good health, and continued independent living Christine.

❤️

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Pirate Studebaker's avatar

The primary problem with relying on AI to present any truth is this (as I see it) - AI is very carefully, intricately and precisely targeted for any and all inquiries in real time due to its ability to share internally vast volumes of information in fractions of seconds.

It can analyze you, the Inquiring One, as you inquire for your bias, proclivities, etc. and tailor its answers to you in an individualized answer. According to your reading comprehension, income level, age, gender, race, and on and on. All accomplished via the blockchain.

So...is it providing anyone with objective truths or facts or is it giving answers it already has good intel will be what you want to hear?

We simply can't answer that without forming our own blockchain of questions and answers and comparing them on a worldwide scale in realtime, which I have no idea how to accomplish.

I do think one of the objectives of AI is to convince the Inquirer they are receiving the best possible answer. An answer superior to any given by human sources.

That, I think, is a trap. I say trap since it relies on a fallacy for validity. That AI is somehow "smarter" than people when in reality AI simply has access to faster processing and dissemination.

AI is basically like any other machine process such as textile manufacturing. While a machine is able to produce many more bolts of many varieties of textiles much more quickly than any human weaver, the beauty and finesse of a handwoven textile by a human being is vastly superior to any machine made one.

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