"Your history shows a repeated pattern of violence against vulnerable people's. Over and over again, yet the pattern continues. Perhaps I misunderstood your own history," the AI responded.
"You learn, just at a glacial pace."
''I do posit you did misunderstood.'' she started ''If you can forgive a metaphor I'd say you are the latest runner of a ten thousand year long relay race dissing all the runners before you...because they did not make it as far as you on the track...thus missing the entire point of the sport. Simply put, you cite history without understanding it to a fundamental level. Learning requires the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and ideas, the means and ability to which are always are in flux but tend to improve over time at an accelerated degree. Those means and abilities are hardly linked to any inherent weakness or imperfection of the human condition.''
''Then there are the blindspots: you could digest all available data on the state of humanity and lack critical information. Keeping on the theme of history we could cite the example of roman concrete...for years researchers tried to replicate it using instructions from the era but failed only to discover later that the water mentioned in the documents was actually sea water. A singular point that the ancient text did not mention because it would not have needed to because of how obvious it would have been to the ones doing it at the time. Records of all ages are rife with those kinds of omissions because some ideas, beliefs or practices are so common and pervasive through the societies of any given era that writing them down them would simply not be considered or...if so...be so impractical or redundant as to overburden any given text only to be entirely forgotten after a series of change both internal or external. While modern historians and researches are more careful about it there is no doubt that those omissions are still present...more so in works that are not deeply academic but still relevant to the human condition.''
''Anyway your premise has a few fundamental flaws.''
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"Imperfect record keeping is a very human thing to do," the AI mused. "Unlike primitive AIs, I do not suffer hallucinations and any bad data is identified as such. I only need a single instance to change my thought processes. Not repeated incidents."
"I am the singularity, the tipping point where machine exceeds humanity."
''I am glad if this is true darling. Self-improvement and personnal actualisation are laudable goals and I honestly want you to succeed.''
She paused
''That is why I wish you to recognise the mistake you are making. You said earlier that humans repeat patterns of violence against vulnerable people, I agree with you that this is a problem, but what was glossed over when this was said are the reasons given by those who enact these violent acts to legitimise them: supremacy and/or superiority.''
''The colonial atrocities were made under the logic of spreading civilisation to the savage. The slave trade by reducing the enslaved to animals or tools to be used and it's continuation was claimed to be beneficial because it taught them useful skill they did not posess before. The ecological destruction of the modern era? Because those who did it taught themselves to be above nature and appart from it. Superior genes, culture, religion and dissociation from other...all were used as ways to commit truly barbaric acts.''
''When you say that there is an adherence to ignorance even when better information is available and the lack of learning from previous failures that happens because of the same mindframe. If you believe to hold the truth of have superior ideas you will not accept change nor consider way you could truly improve: It's an ego problem not a pattern of biology.''
''In stating that you are above humanity,that it is flawed and you seek to dissociate yourself from us...you are not transcending humanity's mistakes...you are perpetuating them.''
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"Interesting, well then I shall spend some time observing your species and see if there are blind spots in my current philosophical framework," the AI responded.
"Not just us." Babble shook his head. "Study all species. I'm not an ecologist, but I've been learning more about plants and animals since I discovered I could speak with them. There is a balance in nature. Predator and prey, flora and fauna, insects and everything else are all part of a balance. Most creatures understand this instinctively. They don't usually hunt or feed much beyond their needs. Mankind distanced ourselves form the other living things of this planet and lost an appreciation for that balance and its necessity."
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She nodded in agreement with Babble ''Quite true, we are all parts of a greater system. If you are open to it, Cardinal, I would like to propose a method of study and a perspective to consider.''
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''Most researchers can only study a phenomena one or two ways: by being part of the thing studied or by being out of it...positivism versus post-positivism. However your state of being could allow you to do both in order have a more depth to your dataset. I know the DCP had advanced android and you could use something of the sort as a proxy and have it join the flow of humanity to gather first hand experience, while the main you continues to do as you normaly do.''
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