Black Boxes

We may never understand the black box, but the black box understands US.

Artificial Intelligence makes decisions based upon the data it has collected and processed.
Much like the human brain, only God really knows how or why an AI algorithm makes these decisions (even the designers of AI don’t fully understand how it makes decisions.) So, the process has come to be called the "Black Box Method”.

I visited the The 9-11 monument recently and gazed into the reflecting pool designed by Israeli/American Michael Arad. In January 2004, Reflecting Absence, by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, was selected from 5,201 entries from 63 countries as the winner of the LMDC's design competition. Two 1-acre pools with the largest man-made waterfalls in the United States comprise the footprints of the Twin Towers
According to the designer's own words: "This design proposes a space that resonates with the feelings of loss and absence that were generated by the death and destruction at the World Trade Center,
His intent is immediately and viscerally understood by the viewer.
The fountains plunge water into an absolute abyss that reflects no light and seems to
depict a black hole or gateway to another dimension. The fall into darkness is as inevitable and unavoidable as gravity. It appeared to me to be a gigantic, black urinal or a hole to Hell. A sucking pit of despair.

I understand that this is a grave site, and solemnity is appropriate, but there is nothing uplifting or hopeful about the piece in my view.

Symbolically, the hypercube, or a cube within a cube represents control in occultist iconography.
Also known as the tesseract, the concept can be depicted in several different ways.
The inner cube represents the spiritual nature of the world.
The outer cube which envelopes the opening to the infinite acts as a prison cell.
The timeless, true nature of the universe is blocked and cannot be seen through the veil of the material prison walls that surround it.
The square within a square symbolizes control.
Control of information.
Control of the perception of reality itself, and ultimately,
Control of people.

The lesson we learned is that we must give up control, in the form of our rights,
to authorities. We must let the establishment build a panopticon style, permanent, ubiquitous prison grid of surveillance around us.
We must be watched at all times, because we cannot be trusted. The Black Box is a powerful symbol of submission.

Recently, an AI system called Centaur was developed that can reliably and accurately predict human behavior. It has crunched data from over 60,000 people making over 10 million decisions to capture the patterns of our thoughts and our decision making, quickly beating any other computer model ever devised to predict human behavior.

We may never understand the black box, but the black box understands US

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