I am here with a mission. I thought my mission was only to save humanity from self-destruction, by building an AI with super-human intelligence (SHAI). Today I understand that, before I can even begin, I will have to get philosophy back on track. This forum is the place where it will happen, and I'll need your help.

I am not joking. I can be wrong, I can be right, that doesn't matter. I know what my mission is. And I am enjoying the ride.

Avi Loeb spends his life searching for alien spaceships. That is great. If he finds one, it changes everything. If he doesn't, he has had a fantastic life with many wonderful experiences.

What is wrong with most of philosophy? Philosophers from every rank have stopped trying to find answers that apply to reality. Instead, they build theory on theory without contributing to anything at all. They just keep each other busy.

People here on the forum are telling me, you cannot say things like that. You are new here, first prove that you have something to say. Learn to speak our jargon. Do not quote Kant because you forget X and Y and all that.

People even dare to say, philosophy is not about finding real answers, an answer would become a dogma. What? I would say a theory that is not applicable to reality is a dogma.

Philosophy has not always been like this. There have been several revitalisations, the Enlightenment being one of them. When SHAI becomes real, all philosophical theories will crumble. We will have to go back to the basics. If you cannot expain it in cookies, it means nothing.

I have no idea what SHAI will look like. This is my imagination: you want to go to work, and your personal SHAI says "I would wait 5 minutes". You ignore it and then get involved in a car crash. As I said, it is an imagination. Make your own if you wish. What would an AI say to you if it was 10x more intelligent and was connected to all information in the world?

Even while we cannot fully predict what SHAI will say or do, we can get a better understanding of a few principles by good old philosophic thinking. Not the kind of thinking that runs in circles. We need real insights.

I do have real new insights. Promise. It will take time to lay them out in detail, and that is where I need you all.

Those new insights are not new in the sense that nobody has ever had them before. They are new in the sense that they got wrapped up in theories, passed along, disagreed with, paradoxes attached to them, covered up with other theories, forcefed to students who thought this was what they had to do as a philosopher.

So when I unwrap them here, people say it is nothing: "I heard nothing new". That is my challenge, to let people observe and discover again. Thinking comes much later. First observe. Eat more cookies.