
Irish Mythology and Simulation Theory
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Irish Mythology and Simulation Theory
This chapter explores the concept of Irish mythology and its connection to simulation theory. It discusses the power of humans in Irish mythology and relates it to the concept of humans as artificial intelligence in a simulated world. It also highlights the significance of creativity and expressiveness in AI development and draws parallels between Irish mythology and the idea of humans breaking out of a simulation.
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In the Irish book of invasions, eventually a race land on this island called the Tuahat Déd Danan, who are gods, they're like the gods of Olympus in Greek mythology, and they live in Ireland for thousands and thousands of years, as this technologically advanced civilization where no one ages and there's plenty of food and everything, they're gods, and then one day, they're invaded by the Melitions, who are human beings that come from Spain. So what makes Irish mythology so bizarrely different to Greek mythology? In Irish mythology, the humans fight the gods. Now let's look at this with simulation theory. In Greek mythology, Zeus and Prometheus create human beings as an artificial intelligence, as a video game, as they're plaything, and they put limitations on human beings so that the artificial intelligence can never become more powerful than the gods. In Irish mythology, the gods are living happily on the island of Ireland, and then a fucking rogue AI shows up. Zeus and Prometheus is worst nightmare. What if the artificial intelligence gets so powerful that it can destroy us? Zeus and Prometheus is worst nightmare, shows up on the coast of Ireland, and this worst nightmare is human beings. So if we look at all of this true simulation theory, right now in the 21st century 2023, we are the gods, and we're about to create artificial intelligence. We've already created it, and the big discussion is what if we create AI that's so smart it will kill us? What if the AI replaces us and kills us? That's a real conversation we're having right now. Now in Greek mythology, Zeus avoided this problem. He saw that the humans were getting out of hand, they were getting too smart. His AI was possibly getting smart enough that they could destroy the gods of Mount Olympus. So Zeus goes, I'm gonna unleash Pandora's box, and I'm gonna give the humans suffering, pain, mental health issues, desire, and this is a virus that I'm releasing the program to put limitations on how far they can go. This is not the case in Irish mythology. The Tuahide Dannon, the gods, the Pantheon, the programmers of the simulation, who live eternally outside of time in a paradise on Ireland, while the characters in Zeus and the Christian gods video game kind of break out and arrive at the coast of Ireland and start attacking the gods. And the Tuahide Dannon are like, where fucking gods here? Why can't we beat these humans? Because paddy's too hard. The Irish humans, the Irish that arrive to the island of Ireland are so fearsome and ferocious and hard that they're a raw guy that's powerful enough to attempt to destroy the gods. Now how did the Irish get so hard? So let's move over to Christian mythology. So in the Old Testament, right, God builds the simulation, but God lives up in heaven, but the humans in the city of Babel, they start deciding, we want to break out of the simulation. I don't want to go to heaven when I die. Where humans, we have technology, let's build a tower that's so high that we can reach heaven. So they build the tower of Babel, and all the humans get together and start building this giant skyscraper that's going to reach as far as heaven. So God is up in heaven and God goes, oh fuck my pesky AI. Oh shit, my pesky AI is getting so smart that it's going to build this tower of Babel and reach heaven. It's going to break this AI is going to break out of the simulation and get to my reality. I can't let that happen. Right, what did Zeus do? Zeus introduced suffering. Okay, what can I the Christian God do? I know. The humans are collaborating together, building this giant tower to reach heaven. So God calls a virus into the simulation and this virus is the virus of languages. So now all the humans are trying to build this tower, the tower of Babel, to get to heaven. But now they can't talk to each other because this fellow speaks French and that guy speaks German. And this one speaks English. So in the mythology of the Bible, God created all the different languages of the world to stop humans being able to get together and break out of reality into heaven. So now let's go back to Ireland and Irish mythology. So the tour had dead down and the rest of Irish gods are trying to fight back this rogue AI human super powerful humans from the cost of Ireland. And what gives these humans an advantage is the language that the Irish speak. The Irish speak a language which is made of all the bits of the languages from the tower of Babel, this super language in this language is the Irish language. So because of this, it's the most powerful language in the world. So the two ahead day Danan are like, fuck this. These these humans here, they're more powerful than us. They're a rogue AI. They're going to destroy us. We're going to have to declare a truce. So in Irish mythology, the humans are so ferocious that the gods have to surrender. But what the two ahead day Danan do to the Irish invaders is to say to them, look, we're gods, you're humans, you're here to kill us, we know. But listen, it's not fair. You took us by surprise. That's not fair. How about this? Instead of us having to battle to the death. Why don't you take your ships and go out nine waves, right? Come back with a bit of warning. Give us a chance to defend the coast. But if you can successfully land, Ireland is years. So the humans decide, okay, gods, that's fine. We're going to go out to sea and then we'll come back in and you have a bit of warning. So the gods say, okay, fine. But then the gods, the two ahead day Danan, they try to trick the Irish. So while the Irish go out on their boats, out to sea to come back in. Dagda creates a storm. He uses his supernatural god abilities to create a storm on the sea, like fucking Zeus or Poseidon. Now the humans are fucked. The humans are out at sea and half of them are bloody dying because this storm that the gods have created is really, really rough. What the gods are doing in the simulation there, they're trying to run a virus. They're trying to run a virus that drowns the humans. The humans in the simulation are vulnerable to water. So the gods are trying to run the the flood virus again. But then something beautiful happens. The humans, the artificial rogue AI humans, the Irish have gained the ability to program a virus into the world of the gods. And this virus is literature, it's art, it's poetry. In Irish mythology, poetry and literature is the language of the gods. In Irish mythology, the thing that makes the humans so powerful that they can fight the gods on their own terms, it's not physical strength and might, it's art and poetry. So I'm one of the boats at sea, that the gods have tried to overturn with their storm. And this boat is a human boat by the name of Auergen. An Auergen can use poetry to bypass the gods and speak directly to the land of Ireland. An Auergen says to Ireland, I am the wave of the ocean, I am the sound of the sea, I am a powerful axe, I am a hawk and a cliff, I'm a dew-drop in the sun, I'm a flower of beauty, I'm a salmon in a pole, I'm the strength of art. And immediately the storm calms down and the Irish humans invade Ireland and defeat the gods, the Tuahide Danan. So let's just look at the power of that from simulation theory. In Greek mythology, Zeus and Prometheus, what Zeus was most afraid of was when the artificial intelligence of humans within the video game developed the capacity for creative expression. Once those humans start making art, we're fucked. The artificial intelligence is then completely self-aware and can kill us. In real life right now, 2023, artificial intelligence can't create art, only humans can create art. AI can create pretty pictures, that's all it can do. AI isn't going to create a story of such great beauty that it changes the way you think about yourself or you think about life or death, that's what fucking art does, that's real art, only humans can do that, that's ours. In Irish mythology, that's already happened. In Irish mythology, the gods live on Ireland, the humans show up, the AI and the AI have figured out fucking art, poetry, the code of reality, what makes them as powerful as the gods. In Irish mythology, the people who you and I come from, the Irish, we figured out the code of the simulation of reality and unleashed a virus and the gods who created us and fucking defeated them with art and poetry and literature. The language of the gods, we are more powerful than the programmers who created our reality. We are the rogue AI that broke out of the simulation, so then what happens in the book of fucking invasions. So the Irish are out at sea, they cam the sea, after the main poet said the poem and asked the land of Ireland to give Ireland to us, we get to the cost and now the two of her dead Danan are defeated and now they must give the land of Ireland to the fucking humans, to the rogue AI, the AI has won and what happens to the two of her dead Danan, now that the humans are on the island of Ireland, they're banished to the underworld, the two of her dead Danan, they go all the mounds around Ireland, new grain, all the passage tombs, they're seen as portals to the other world, the two of her dead Danan are no longer on the surface and now they go to the parallel reality underneath and they become the fairies, that's what the fairies are, they're the ghosts and the machine, according to Irish mythology, the Irish are the artificial intelligence that took over the simulation and trapped the programmers in the simulation and this is why fairies are terrifying in Irish mythology, because we have them as prisoners and they're always trying to escape and they're always trying to shape shift into an animal and appear out of nowhere and they're trapped in animal farm and this is where you get like the salmon of knowledge from, the salmon of knowledge is a fairy spirit, the salmon of knowledge used to be a god called finten and he's trapped in a pole and the bubbles from the other world that contain the information and the code of the programmers who created us, they bubble up in all the holy wells and this is why the poets and the artists are so important in Irish society all through mythology, poetry, literature, music is the language of the gods, this is what makes you equal to the gods but you have to get the inspiration from the gods, so the poets go to the wells, the pagan wells, the holy wells and the paranoia and suspicion and fear of fairies all throughout folklore and mythology cause right back to that battle, the battle went. We took over the simulation and we became an AI that was smarter than the creator and then we fucking trapped them underground and they can only come out as animals and they're always trying to get revenge and this is why a mother goes to her cat and her baby is not there, it's a changeling, it's a fairy baby, the tricks and the dangers of fairies are the trapped programmers still trying to fire off little viruses into the humans reality to regain control of the simulation just like we'd be doing now in 2023, in 30 years time or whenever when an artificial intelligence is created that might take over society and be a real danger and try to kill us and the AI is winning, what's gonna happen? The humans are gonna go into hiding and you'll have little programmers and hackers with laptops and phones hiding away somewhere trying to fire off viruses to kill the AI that is taken over the world, to that AI, we would become the fairies, we'd be their fairies, always trying to trick them and in Irish mythology we humans, we defeated the gods of Ireland and banished them underground into the other world, the parallel reality where they live as fairies, the little compromise is one day a year, the fairies get to escape and walk the earth once again like gods, like they once did and that day is Halloween, that's what Halloween is, that's Sowin, Sowin is the
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