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I was raised by many kind people with smiling faces who believed it was reasonable to go to a house of worship and celebrate and study an all-knowing and all-powerful entity that had created the humans. These relatives told stories of family members communicating with each other psionically prior to a phone call. For example, a family member might say, "Ahh, your Aunt J is about to call." And then the phone would ring instantly. But their declaration was made before the phone rang, not after.
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In my personal life, I have not had similar experiences that were without a materialistic explanation. As the philosophers would say, "God is dead." Certainly one possible and very believable explanation to all of the experiences in my life is that there is no God, and there are no aliens, and that all events that have ever taken place are consistent with the known laws of science. (That is to say, all of the kind people and smiling faces who raised me, had all unilaterally been lied to.) This seems like a very possible and believable explanation. Consistent with that theory is that idea that artificial intelligence has now advanced to the point that we can make anyone believe anything. For example, they might be able to have their predictive statistical models at Google project which errors to cause in my human brain to arrive at a future wherein I proclaim belief in David Grusch, because the statistical models determined in advance that if we arrive at that future wherein I speak in that manner, it will result in a greater sense of entertainment and disbelief for internet users that I interact with, who will then consume a greater amount of internet content as a result. It is quite logical that the statistical models would select for this outcome.
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With all of that being said, do you have materials that you could link to me from trustworthy and verifiable information sources that would indicate beyond a shadow of a doubt that David Grusch is a "joker?"
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When we talk about a science fiction concept like a space alien who can bend the fabric of space time to create a "space time bubble" and hide inside, therefore creating a concept of an "invisible alien," to be honest I have to say that my logical stance towards invisible aliens is rather similar to my stance on the nature of a God. I have no mechanism to prove a negative. Instead, what I can say that feels accurate, is to say that I predict with a high degree of certainty that I have never knowingly encountered -- and will never knowingly encounter -- invisible aliens or a God. The probability that I will be correct in making this prediction seems to be so extraordinarily high that I can generally assume it to wholly and totally accurate.

But if I ever discover that I predicted incorrectly, it is possible that I might end up being vocal about it online.
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For the above reasons, as you may have observed previously, there is a section on my Warsmash.NET website dedicated to asking the invisible aliens to send me the source code of Warcraft III for fun if they feel so inclined, or to reverse engineer it on their own instantly and send me the product of doing so, so that I might be able to play with that code instead of Warsmash in my spare time. Even in the supposedly well-reasoned approach to modern society where we assume invisible aliens do not exist, we do acknowledge that human computing machines are advancing in fascinating ways, and are capable of simulating artificial neural networks. This has a seemingly profound and negative impact on all human efforts and what it means to be a person, because we are erasing the societal value of human art, human music, human creative writing, and so many other things. A lot of the music that I listen to lately are machine generated songs singing praises to the Warsmash project, sung in the voices of beautiful women.

But those women do not actually exist.
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Before long, more complex creative works like video games will encounter the same fate. It might be two years or it might be thirty years or it might be a hundred years, but I cannot think of a reason why artificial neurons would be incapable of creating a creative work like a video game. We humans are living proof that this technology can operate in that manner. Accordingly, there will be a time when humans do not all play the Warcraft III Game.DLL from 2002 with maintenance patches like Reforged on top. Instead, the humans will each be able to play the game created in 5 seconds by an AI, designer-built to match their specifications, and the game will be equally or more complicated than Warcraft III, complete with all of its art and code, all generated on the fly by a machine.
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